As if for the first time, indeed, creation noiselessly sank into and through me its placid and untellable lesson, beyond—O, so infinitely beyond!—anything from art, books, sermons, or from science, old or new.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

After years of patient and unremitting labor in the face of ridicule, discouragement, and repeated failure, he finally evolved the Cherokee syllabary and in 1821 submitted it to a public test by the leading men of the Nation.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Otherwise it is a region haunted by the monsters and fabulous beings with which an Indian imagination would people an unknown land.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

el militar tirando el chacó, poniendo a un lado espada y tahalí, cartera de viaje y
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

lo probaré a Ud. luego.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Nor were they less careful to prevent any unhallowed layman from touching the pall, which, having been that used at the funeral of Saint Edmund, was liable to be desecrated, if handled by the profane.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

It is upon this account that, in the chapter in which I treat of productive and unproductive labour, I have classed artificers, manufacturers, and merchants among the productive labourers, and menial servants among the barren or unproductive.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Yet here I am, and here I will remain; to this place an unfortunate love, and my cruel relations, have condemned me.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

She mounted the Scaffold with courage enough; at a quarter past Twelve, her head fell; the Executioner shewed it to the people, amid universal long-continued cries of 'Vive la Republique.'
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

but he changed the second time he looked Poldy pigheaded as usual like the soup
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Hush’d be the voice of bards who heroes praise, And high o’er glory’s sun their pæans raise; And let an artless Muse a friend review, Whose tranquil Life one blameless tenour knew, By Nature form’d to please, of happiest mien, Just, friendly, chearful, affable, serene; Engaging Manners, cultivated Mind, Adorn’d by Letters and in Courts refin’d, His blooming honours long approv’d he bore, And added lustre to that gem he wore; Grac’d with all pow’rs to shine, he left parade, And unambitious lov’d the sylvan shade; p. 176
— from The Hardy Country: Literary landmarks of the Wessex Novels by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

—Prices for good to choice dry picked and unfrozen lots are: Turkeys 13@14c per lb; chickens 9@10c; ducks 12@13c; geese 9@11c.
— from Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

Nothing can more clearly point out the patient and unremitting labour of the Chinese, than the preparation of this plant for the market.
— from Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir

Presently they approached the old lime quarries, which had been practically abandoned until Lemuel Hayden came to Oakdale, bought them, opened up new and unsuspected deposits, and revived the industry of lime burning.
— from The New Boys at Oakdale by Morgan Scott

The joint efforts of our Manatitlan corps of censors and nurses soon succeeded in rescuing our adherents from the deadly influence of the pestilence, affording us leisure to render succoring advice to the good of the Giga race.
— from The Manatitlans or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A. by R. Elton Smile

Thin-shelled as a pignut, and usually less than an inch [15] in length, the nuts are enclosed in thin husks, that differ from others in having thin ridges that rise along the four lines where they split at the time the nuts are ripe.
— from Trees Every Child Should Know: Easy Tree Studies for All Seasons of the Year by Julia Ellen Rogers

Every father of a family will be, as formerly Abraham and the patriarchs, the priest and unfettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the only code of Man.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

"White coal" will, Bailey Willis says, make a great industrial region of it, and plant an urban life in it.
— from The Argentine Republic: Its Development and Progress by Pierre Denis

Soprani considers it a useful compendium, and containing, in plain and unaffected language, the principles of the art.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 5 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi