People are so dull and uninteresting and vapid and stupid—so precisely like ourselves—we get weary of the world and its emptiness, and yearn to fly away to be with the spotless Christ and live in that "Undiscovered country, from whose bourne No traveller returns" Some day, thank God!
— from The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees

Such Patriotism as snarls dangerously, and shows teeth, Patrollotism shall suppress; or far better, Royalty shall soothe down the angry hair of it, by gentle pattings; and, most effectual of all, by fuller diet.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

It is a long journey, through a country that is sometimes pleasant and sometimes dark and terrible.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The sharp hull driving on its way seemed to rise a few inches in succession through its whole length, as though it had become pliable, and settled down again rigidly to its work of cleaving the smooth surface of the sea.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Before he could answer, Dr. Petit entered, unfolded a paper, and said,— "Does any one know Victor Hugo's handwriting?
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

But one day it found the skin of a sheep that had been flayed and thrown aside, so it put it on over its own pelt and strolled down among the sheep.
— from Aesop's Fables by Aesop

Although the light of almost four centuries has been focused on "The Prince," its problems are still debatable and interesting, because they are the eternal problems between the ruled and their rulers.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Sometimes, wearied with walks about the open country, and bored, as might have been expected of a frivolous, fickle character like hers, with the monotony of the landscape of orange-trees and palms, she would take refuge in her parlor, and sit down at the piano!
— from The Torrent (Entre Naranjos) by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

In the Studio, November, 1900, we read: "Miss McCrossan's exhibition of pictures and sketches displayed a pleasant variety of really clever work, mostly in oils, with a few water-colors and pastels.
— from Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

When the collar was attached, the Prince of the Asturias, the Marquis de Villena, and Grimaldo, without making a reverence and no chevalier uncovering himself, went back to their places, and sat down; at, the same moment my son knelt before the King, and bared, his head.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 14 by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

A Chinese trader, who has come annually to Singapore in junks for many years, tells us that he has had as long a passage as sixty days, although the average is eighteen or twenty days."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

"There you are," and he pointed a short distance ahead, where a brook ran along the road.
— from Through the Air to the North Pole Or, The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch by Roy Rockwood

Then Mr. Rabbit got up on the stool and nearly covered himself with moss; Mrs. Squirrel got under the tree and stood up on her hind-feet, with an acorn in her paws; Minx curled herself up in the funniest way on the moss; the sparrow flew up into the tree and began pecking at the mountain-ash berries; Française and Lyd and Peg all sat down as well as they could near the squirrel and the rabbit; Jumping Jack mounted the horse and rode around beside the tree, to stand guard; Spot stood up on his hind-legs just in front of the stool, with Scrubby's letter in his mouth, and the chicken hopped up on Spot's head.
— from St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 2, December, 1877 by Various

This is false: they were seized on May 18th, that is, on the day on which the British Government declared war, three days after an embargo had been laid on British vessels in French ports, and seven days after the First Consul had directed his envoy at Florence to lay an embargo on English ships in the ports of Tuscany.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

“Yes; the fathers and mothers of the childer generally curse and swear their own full share every day, at any rate: and if the master told the childer it was a great sin, they would consider their fathers and mothers wicked people, and so despise and fly in their faces!”
— from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Barrington, Jonah, Sir

For the flashlights Walter prepared a special developer, and as it washed over the first film both boys bent over the tray eagerly.
— from The Boy Scouts of Woodcraft Camp by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess