O, let me stay And comfort you, my master.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Open the biographies of the makers of Modern Japan—of Sakuma, of Saigo, of Okubo, of Kido, not to mention the reminiscences of living men such as Ito, Okuma, Itagaki, etc.:—and you will find that it was under the impetus of samuraihood that they thought and wrought.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

And though of that continuous birth King Helios is the primary creative cause, yet Aphrodite is the joint cause with him, she who enchants our souls with her charm and sends down to earth from the upper air rays of light most sweet and stainless, aye, more lustrous than gold itself.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

This guardian experience I had gained early; this guardian experience had sternly and strictly guided me straight along my own poor narrow path, without once letting me stray aside, to the right hand or to the left.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Then, O, thou flower of the desert, swept away by the blood-stained dazzling ocean of grandeur, with its foam of jealousy, its rocks and shoals of intrigue, on what shore of cruel death wast thou cast, or in what other land more splendid and more cruel?
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

He must just take or leave my story, and anyway, with him I would be in better hands than those devilish Germans.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

It is probable that the same Court of Love met sometimes at the Castle of Pierrefeu, sometimes at that of Signe.
— from On Love by Stendhal

If Lord Coke had [400] meant to distinguish between warranties and all covenants which in our loose modern sense are said to run with the land, this statement would be less satisfactory than the preceding.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Searching back for the origin of life, men stopped at the earliest point to which they could trace it, and exalted the reproductive organs into symbols of the Creator.
— from The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices by Anonymous

THE STRANGE MUSIC Other loves may sink and settle, other loves may loose and slack, But I wander like a minstrel with a harp upon his back,
— from Poems by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The sealing-wax had worn off, and it had become quite black; but black makes one look more slender, and the needle fancied it looked more delicate than ever.
— from A Christmas Greeting: A Series of Stories by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

It had been otherwise, I verily believe, hadst thou chosen a partner of intellectual cultivation more akin to thine own,—of hardier nerve and coarser fibre,—one whom thy wrath would less have terrified, whom thy converse would more have charmed; of less moral spirit and more physical courage."
— from Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold

But in 1915 the League was a skeleton, consisting of Lamar, Martin, Schulteis, and a few others, held together by the bond of small salaries drawn from some source that preferred to remain unknown.
— from Fighting Germany's Spies by French Strother

Leonardo had lived and taught in Milan, and his influence with that of other Lombard masters stirred Angelica to her very soul.
— from Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

"Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer."
— from In His Image by William Jennings Bryan