But that which Hiero is most concerned at is, that he finds himself stripped of all friendship, deprived of all mutual society, wherein the true and most perfect fruition of human life consists.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Now this operation of accident is a fact, and a prominent fact, of human life.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Mrs. Manson laid a purple finger on her lips.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

As it was, it presented a striking contrast to them: his two elder sons banished; the first, Sanga, self-exiled from perpetual fear of his life, and Prithiraj, the second, from his turbulence; while the youngest, Jaimall, was slain through his intemperance.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Here one has conventional worldly notions and habits without instruction and without polish, surely the most prosaic form of human life; proud respectability in a gig of unfashionable build; worldliness without side-dishes.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Ang duha ka sanggì magdugtung, The product from one harvest lasts to the next.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In the midst of these perpetual fluctuations of his lot, the present grows upon his mind, until it conceals futurity from his sight, and his looks go no further than the morrow.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

But if they straggle to pick flowers or hunt lizards, they are sometimes carried off.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

As we read of her ‘Palace of Pleasures’, ornamented with gold and precious stones, of her woods of pomegranate and sweet almond, of her gardens and perfumed fountains, of her luxurious rest-houses for travellers without the walls, we are back in the atmosphere of some Eastern fairy tale that clings also around the history of her Caliphs, tinging with romance their loves, their hatreds, and their rivalries.
— from Europe in the Middle Ages by Ierne L. (Ierne Lifford) Plunket

Margaret’s eyes grew moist here as she thought of that dear mother who years before had placed over just such a little bed the pictured face of her lost little girl, and of how that same little girl had 259 seen it and had thus found the dear mother arms waiting for her.
— from The Turn of the Tide: The Story of How Margaret Solved Her Problem by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

All these are recounted in detail by Dr. W. H. Russell, in the introduction to his book on the 'Prince of Wales's Tour,' a reprint in expanded and permanent form of his letters as the special correspondent of the Times .
— from Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 by King of Great Britain Edward VII

Precious fabrics of her loom Clothe her darling of the year; Wealth of sunshine; breath of bloom; Cloudless days, so fair, so dear.
— from Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer by Josephine Chase

His constant attention to Tisquantum, and his assiduous care to consult his every wish and desire, had won upon the old man's feelings, and he again regarded him rather as the proved friend of his lost Tekoa, than as the suspected foe of his adopted son Henrich.
— from The Pilgrims of New England A Tale of the Early American Settlers by Mrs. (Annie) Webb-Peploe

It is only after we have been at a place for a short time, and when the people find out how large a sum we pay for it, that they bring in even small quantities.
— from The March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

'What I saw, I Sir Knight will say: The sire of the young King Meljanz, as he on his death-bed lay, He bade them draw near unto him, the princes from out his land, For his gallant life lay forfeit, a pledge in stern Death's cold hand, 110 And to Death he needs must yield him—In grief o'er his coming end To the faith of the princes round him his son would the king commend,
— from Parzival: A Knightly Epic (vol. 1 of 2) by Wolfram, von Eschenbach, active 12th century

Any careful student of the New Testament recognizes at once that however deep Jesus laid the philosophical foundation of his life-work in human nature, his teachings dealt directly with the day-by-day practical activities of the individuals with whom he talked.
— from Christianity and Problems of To-day: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross by Jeremiah Whipple Jenks

The peculiar field of his labours and its results--the opera--was unknown to her.
— from Riven Bonds. Vol. II. A Novel, in Two Volumes by E. Werner