In the glow he seemed to see Phillotson promenading at ease, like one of the forms in Nebuchadnezzar's furnace.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

What a strange power do the poets attribute to the senses, that make Narcissus so desperately in love with his own shadow, Cunctaque miratur, quibus est mirabilis ipse; Se cupit imprudens, et, qui probat, ipse probatur; Dumque petit, petitur; pariterque accendit, et ardet: “Admireth all; for which to be admired;
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Obsessive prohibitions possess an extraordinary capacity for displacement; they make use of almost any form of connection to extend from one object to another and then in turn make this new object ‘impossible’, as one of my patients aptly puts it.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

By this, he avoids one of the greatest faults of modern biographers, that namely of identifying himself with some one particular personage, and endeavouring to prove that all his actions were equally laudable.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

[11-5] En tal momento acertó a pasar por allí el gitano Heredia , el cual se paró, como todos, a ver aquella lucidísima 30 tropa.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

A number of past participles are employed with the value of present participial adjectives.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

According to the preceding Editions. 240 —look—he’s now riding like a mad-cap full tilt through a whole crowd of painters, fiddlers, poets, biographers, physicians, lawyers, logicians, players, school-men, churchmen, statesmen, soldiers, casuists, connoisseurs, prelates, popes, and engineers.—Don’t fear, said I—I’ll not hurt the poorest jack-ass upon the king’s
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

And, in truth, for the most part, they appear to be deprived even of common sense; for you see the husbandman and the cobbler go simply and fairly about their business, speaking only of what they know and understand; whereas these fellows, to make parade and to get opinion, mustering this ridiculous knowledge of theirs, that floats on the superficies of the brain, are perpetually perplexing, and entangling themselves in their own nonsense.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The poet, on the other hand, is like the mathematician, who constructs these relations a priori in pure perception, and expresses them not as they actually are in the drawn figure, but as they are in the Idea, which the drawing is intended to render for the senses.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

This might open to us vast facilities for passing into the South Seas, such as hitherto we have no knowledge of, and would render the whole of that southern navigation greatly more secure than it is at present: Particularly as exact draughts of the western coast of Patagonia, from the Straits of Magellan to the Spanish settlements, might furnish
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

The inevitable results of these gains in personal power and efficiency are Larger Income and a Greater Success in Business .
— from Forging Ahead in Business by Alexander Hamilton Institute (U.S.)

She decided to invest a capital of fifty cents, not part of her new-found funds, but her private and personal possession, and expected to come out of her venture a millionaire.
— from Cricket at the Seashore by Elizabeth Weston Timlow

So we phrase it in our own distinguished verbiage; but Plato prefers, as ever, to draw a picture.
— from Philosophy and the Social Problem by Will Durant

Disgusted with their own handiwork; involved in debt throughout the state, after wasting all the money appropriated by Congress; the accounts in an inextricable state of confusion; the creditors of the government clamoring to be paid; the "honest yeomanry" turning against the party in power; political affairs entangled beyond remedy; it was admitted to be a very bad business—not at all such as to meet the approval of the administration.
— from Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

The United States was poorly prepared and equipped for military and naval campaigns when, in June, 1812, Congress declared war on Great Britain.
— from The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 by Ralph Delahaye Paine

I could by no possibility perform any experiments the result of which could not be easily explained away so as to be of no conclusive significance.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

ib. Berto, di, Gio., called also Bertus Joannis Marci , of Perugia, painted as early as 1497, was living in 1523, and perhaps later.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 6 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century (6 volumes) by Luigi Lanzi

There is a Land, beyond the gloomy sky, That needs no earthly light for its adorning; Where God’s own children nevermore shall die,— A home of perfect peace and endless morning.
— from Home Poems by Kate Louise Wheeler