Conscience is timid, she loves peace and retirement; she is startled by noise and numbers; the prejudices from which she is said to arise are her worst enemies.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

From the sensations I then had, I felt an inner conviction of the liveliest kind, that without some powerful and reviving stimulus I should either have died on the spot, or should at least have sunk to a point of exhaustion from which all reäscent under my friendless circumstances would soon have become hopeless.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

Feral cats, both in Europe and La Plata, are regularly striped; in some cases they have grown to an unusually large size, but do not differ from the domestic animal in any other character.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

He paused, and Ruth said, “I suppose Mrs. Rawdon has had some news from her old home?”
— from The Man Between: An International Romance by Amelia E. Barr

We will lay this tubful of English pirates alongside right speedily, if so be it is a large ship of good strength."
— from With the Black Prince by William O. Stoddard

On the tercentenary of the Reformation in 1817 he preached a Reformation sermon in St. Paul's Episcopal Church on Broadway, which attracted widespread attention.
— from The Lutherans of New York Their Story and Their Problems by George Unangst Wenner

Immediately round us on the hillside had once stood the city of King Ramiro, obliterated as completely as the earlier Phœnician and Roman settlements in Spain.
— from Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

Of his power in getting up pulpit performances in the highest style of eloquence, of which that period afforded remarkable specimens, I shall have occasion to speak.
— from Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects by Charles Wentworth Upham

Alexander Ruthven and the rest retreated; Ruthven rushed to the town, rousing the people, and rifling shops in search of gunpowder.
— from James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang