all those golden dreams are vanished for ever, and my only refuge from future misery is to forget the object of all my former happiness.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

And as when one roveth far from his native land, as we men often wander with enduring heart, nor is any land too distant but all ways are clear to his view, and he sees in mind his own home, and at once the way over sea and land seems slain, and swiftly thinking, now this way, now that, he strains with eager eyes; so swiftly the daughter of Zeus darted down and set her foot on the cheerless shore of Thynia. (ll. 549-567) Now when they reached the narrow strait of the winding passage, hemmed in on both sides by rugged cliffs, while an eddying current from below was washing against the ship as she moved on, they went forward sorely in dread; and now the thud of the crashing rocks ceaselessly struck their ears, and the sea-washed shores resounded, and then Euphemus grasped the dove in his hand and started to mount the prow; and they, at the bidding of Tiphys, son of Hagnias, rowed with good will to drive Argo between the rocks, trusting to their strength.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

A sudden sense of relief flowed from my heart through every limb.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

She gave it to me in silence, and then got up and took it to her sacred recesses in her own room, for fear, by any chance, it might get burnt.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

So he hastened to chastise such bold and enormous insolence, wishing to repay the orphan ward the benefits he had of old received from Frode.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

feror , ferris or -re , fertur ferimur , feriminī , feruntur Imp.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

* * * His work is carefully and honestly performed, and we hope that the writer will read our remarks [five full columns] in a proper spirit, and, in the latest slang of the present hour, will “ TAKE THEM ON HIS HEAD LIKE A BIRD .”
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

ed the two Viśákhás 907 shine, The strength and glory of our line, And Nairrit's 908 influence that aids Our Rákshas foemen faints and fades.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

In the disguise of a monk or beggar, the indefatigable missionary of revolt flew from Constantinople to Rome, and from Sicily to Saragossa: the treaty was sealed with the signet of Pope Nicholas himself, the enemy of Charles; and his deed of gift transferred the fiefs of St. Peter from the house of Anjou to that of Arragon.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

First must the dead letter of religion own itself dead, and drop piecemeal into dust, if the living spirit of religion, freed from its charnel-house, is to arise in us, new-born of heaven, and with new healing under its wings.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

THE INVESTIGATION During December and early January the Commission received an increasing volume of reports from Federal and State investigative agencies.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

Each morning with her early tea there was a basket of rare flowers, flowers she did not trouble to tell Alice to move now; she put them down to some palace custom, nothing that had any bearing on the Sultan.
— from A Son of the Sahara by Louise Gerard

There remains undescribed the quadrant which stretches to our right front from south to west.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Sakia, we invoked for rain; We called on Razeka for food; They did not hear our prayers—they could not hear.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

As he did so there was a sound of running footsteps from behind, and then a shout.
— from The Hampstead Mystery by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

The drowning of a great number of people on a torpedoed ship full of refugees from Flanders filled his mind with pitiful imaginings for days.
— from Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In the meadow beside it are two huts and a small oratory, rudely fashioned from the branches of trees and reeds from the river, and daubed over with mud.
— from Peter Abélard by Joseph McCabe

It particularly annoyed him when he had to climb a tree or run fast from his enemies; and of them he found no end, though never once did a friend cross his path.
— from The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson Seton