During this colloquy no portion of Jupiter’s person could be seen; but the beetle, which he had suffered to descend, was now visible at the end of the string, and glistened, like a globe of burnished gold, in the last rays of the setting sun, some of which still faintly illumined the eminence upon which we stood.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can 40 procure for us God, freedom, immortality.
— 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.

In the last place this propension causes belief by means of the present impressions of the memory; since without the remembrance of former sensations, it is plain we never should have any belief of the continued existence of body.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

With penetrating, almost clairvoyant vision, this artist-artisan sees how every process of mainspring making can be carried further; and how, at every stage of manufacture, more perfection can be reached; how the texture of the metal can be so much refined that even a fiber, a slender thread of it, can do marvelous work.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The said Thomas Lord Audley built and dwelt on this priory during his life, and died there in the year 1544; since the which time the said priory came by marriage of the Lord Audley’s daughter and heir unto Thomas, late Duke of Norfolk, and was then called the Duke’s place.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

She sat with grim determination, upright as a darning-needle stuck in a board, holding on her bundle of umbrella and parasols, and replying with a determination that was enough to strike dismay even into a hackman, wondering to Eva, in each interval, “what upon earth her papa could be thinking of; he couldn’t have fallen over, now,—but something must have happened;”—and just as she had begun to work herself into a real distress, he came up, with his usually careless motion, and giving Eva a quarter of the orange he was eating, said, “Well, Cousin Vermont, I suppose you are all ready.”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

He seemed to look it, and the saving grace in Carrie was that she could understand that people could be wiser.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The lawyer, startled at this intelligence, set on foot a minute inquiry into the life and conversation of the doctor, which turned out so little to the advantage of his character and circumstances, that he resolved, if possible, to disunite him from his family; and, as a previous step, repeated to his sister all that he had heard to the prejudice of her husband, not forgetting to produce the evidence of his mistress, who laid claim to him by a prior title, which, she pretended, could be proved by the testimony of the clergyman who joined them.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Every hysteria phobia can be traced to childish fear of which it is a continuation, even if it has another content and must therefore receive a different name.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

His father had been a priest and his mother of noble rank, so by birth he belonged to the privileged class; but however carefully I scrutinized his exhausted, respectful, and always perspiring face, his red beard now turning grey, his pitifully torn reefer jacket and his red shirt, I could not discover in him the faintest trace of anything we associate with privilege.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It appears, after thorough investigation, that in the majority of the coal mines above mentioned, ventilation is very much neglected, and that this neglect is partly caused, by the immunity of these mines from carburetted hydrogen gas, which exempts them from the danger of explosion.
— from An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners by Archibald Makellar

The Sergeant in charge gave me a long stick with a nail in the end, and I had this stick in one hand and a sandbag in the other, and my work was to go through the trenches picking up all the paper, cigarette boxes, and tin cans."
— from Into the Jaws of Death by Jack O'Brien

There never was, so far as we know, a public conveyance between Rhaiadyr and Builth; and at the latter town, at this season of the year—although it is still early in October—the traveller will find no means of communication with the rest of the world, except for those who journey with post horses, and those who make use of the locomotive powers of their own limbs.
— from The Wye and Its Associations: A Picturesque Ramble by Leitch Ritchie

" Desire had delicately withdrawn by this time; and presently coming back with a cup of tea upon a little tray, which refreshment she was sure Mrs. Argenter would need at once after her journey, she found the lady sitting quite serenely in the low cushioned chair before the obnoxious grate, in which Sylvie had kindled the lump of cannel that lay all ready for the match, in a folded newspaper, with three little pitch-pine sticks.
— from The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

The Privy Councillor, being in the secret of these royal projects, had insensibly become one of the most prudent and influential leaders of that moderate party which most desired a fusion of opinion in the interests of the nation.
— from The Ball at Sceaux by Honoré de Balzac

Passed Centreville before break-of-day.
— from Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery by Theodore Reichardt

The box was in a panelled closet by the head of my Uncle's bed.
— from Clara Vaughan, Volume 3 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

[142] Shakespeare's abundant power created beings who look before and after, even while they keep vigorous a passionate present.
— from William Shakespeare by John Masefield

The performances commenced by the whole of the Baroni family appearing in a row, and bowing to the audience.
— from Tancred; Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield