But since they are, that epoch is a bore: Love lingers still, although 't were late to wive; And as for other love, the illusion 's o'er; And money, that most pure imagination, Gleams only through the dawn of its creation.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

It was impossible for these ladies and their companions—among whom Lily had at once distinguished both Trenor and Rosedale—not to pass, in going out, the table at which the two girls were seated; and Gerty's sense of the fact betrayed itself in the helpless trepidation of her manner.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

In studying the situation, one essential point is generally overlooked, that the pathogenic conflict of the neurotic must not be confused with normal struggles between psychic impulses of which
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The best thing you could do would probably be to turn back again, but if you persist in going on, take the road that leads eastward, for mine now lies northward to those rocks which you may see in the distance.'
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

Some days ago I became acquainted with your misfortune and the cause which impels you to take up arms again and again to revenge yourselves upon your enemies; and having many times thought over your business in my mind, I find that, according to the laws of combat, you are mistaken in holding yourselves insulted; for a private individual cannot insult an entire community; unless it be by defying it collectively as a traitor, because he cannot tell who in particular is guilty of the treason for which he defies it.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And the plaintiff, if when defeated before the first judges he persist in going on to the second, shall if he wins receive in addition to the damages a fifth part more, and if defeated he shall pay a like sum; but if he is not satisfied with the previous decision, and will insist on proceeding to a third court, then if he win he shall receive from the defendant the amount of the damages and, as I said before, half as much again, and the plaintiff, if he lose, shall pay half of the damages claimed.
— from Laws by Plato

The very name pundita is given only to those of high intellectual attainments.
— from A Tour of the Missions: Observations and Conclusions by Augustus Hopkins Strong

"Perhaps it got out through the servants," suggested Jessica.
— from Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls by Josephine Chase

The relative produce in grain of the three portions taken, as stated above, was as 1, 1·325, and 1·260.
— from The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Cameron, Charles Alexander, Sir

In 1796 Edward Jenner, who was a country practitioner in Gloucestershire, observed that those persons 252 affected with cow-pox, contracted in the discharge of their duty as milkers, did not contract small-pox, even when placed in risk of infection.
— from Bacteria Especially as they are related to the economy of nature, to industrial processes, and to the public health by Newman, George, Sir

My last proofe is grounded on this, that where the most part of the shire is seuered into inclosures, you cannot easily make choyce to stand in any one of them, aboue a quarter of a mile distance from some dwelling house.
— from The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Richard Carew

The windows are placed in groups of three, two groups between the south-west angle and the first door, one group between the first and second, and the second and third doors, and two groups between the third door and the angle tower.
— from Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

Without preamble I gave out the text of the address I was about to deliver to him.
— from Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Any reader would suppose that the poet is going on to tell of his adventures, when suddenly the story is switched off, and, after brief mention of this Beowulf's son, Healfdene, we come to Hrothgar, the building of Heorot, Grendel's attack, and the voyage of Beowulf the Geat to the rescue.
— from Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers