Oh, Hedda—she says that poor Aunt Rina is dying! HEDDA.
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

This disparagement is unjustified because in all the most rational and scientific remedies that we make use of, the first step towards the final development of their relative position among remedies is due to empiricism which is founded on daily experience, on observation of results obtained in specific cases, facts that are handed down from father to son for generations.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

The commonest view of the principle would no doubt be that the present pleasure or happiness is reasonably to be foregone with the view of obtaining greater pleasure or happiness hereafter: but the principle need not be restricted to a hedonistic application; it is equally applicable to any other interpretation of ‘one’s own good,’ in which good is conceived as a mathematical whole, of which the integrant parts are realised in different parts or moments of a lifetime.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

he seems only to have altered his method of proceeding; and retains, I doubt, his wicked purpose.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Perhaps; but let me ask you whether you have ever observed the manner in which painters put in and rub out colour: yet their endless labour will last but a short time, unless they leave behind them some successor who will restore the picture and remove its defects. 'Certainly.'
— from Laws by Plato

I said, reproachfully, pretending a resentment I did not feel (for in truth I was almost wild with joy to find myself so happily mistaken, and overflowing with affection to him for this and for the base injustice I felt that I had done him in my mind—he might have wronged me, but not to that extent; and as I had hated him like a demon for the last forty hours, the reaction from such a feeling was so great that I could pardon all offences for the moment—and love him in spite of them too).
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

But Deïphobus: 'Be not angered, mighty priestess; I will depart, I will refill my place and return into darkness.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The peasants are rotting in drunkenness and cannot shake off the habit.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In brief, the king openly assented to the preaching of the Gospel by Paulinus, and renouncing idolatry, declared that he received the faith of Christ: and when he inquired of the aforesaid high priest of his religion, who should first desecrate the altars and temples of their idols, with the precincts that were about them, he answered, “I; for who can more fittingly than myself destroy those things which I worshipped in my folly, for an example to all others, through the wisdom which has been given me by the true God?”
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Through all the country far and wide, In pools and rivers incessantly diving, A Cormorant greedy his table supplied, On their finny inhabitants so daintily thriving.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

These poems are read in different copies with great variations.
— from Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Samuel Johnson

I shall first proceed to state what happens when various amounts of the anterior parts are removed, in different frogs, in the way in which an ordinary student removes them—that is, with no extreme precautions as to the purity of the operation.
— from Psychology: Briefer Course by William James

I know that the secret reverence not only of the true-hearted, but of all who have not sunk below the mark where appreciation of true-heartedness is impossible, must be given to him who has stood forth in the intrepidity of a Christian manliness, to declare, in the face and beneath the power of its violators, strong in power and reckless in deed, the eternal law of rectitude and mercy.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 06 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

But, as Napoleon had recently awarded sums amounting in all to 26,582,000 francs from out of the estates confiscated in Poland, [171] signs of sudden affluence were widespread in Paris and rendered it difficult to detect the receivers of the gems.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

E. A. Freeman attributes the southern portion of the walls to Theron (Hist. of Sic. ii. 224), but the question depends upon the date of the temple of Heracles; and if Koldewey and Puchstein are right in dating it so early as 500 B.C., it is probable that the wall was in existence by that time.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Another well-known and interesting type consists of a field of white, on which, with formal precision, are represented, in delicate shades of red, blue, yellow, and green, 150 archaic leaves and flowers supported by stems and tendrils that are so conventionalised as to form geometric lines and angles.
— from Oriental Rugs, Antique and Modern by W. A. (Walter Augustus) Hawley