I may pass from the suicide at the Shivering Sand, with its strange and terrible influence on my present position and future prospects, to interests which concern the living people of this narrative, and to events which were already paving my way for the slow and toilsome journey from the darkness to the light.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

I have, therefore, listed Dr. Samuel Johnson in some of my memorandums of the principal planters and favourers of the enclosures, under a name which I took the liberty to invent from the Greek, Papadendrion.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

The three great distinctions of time are present , past , and future .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Take of Bettony three handfuls, Marjoram four handfuls and a half, Thyme, red Roses, of each a handful, Violets, Stœchas, Sage, of each half a handful, the seeds of Fennel, Annis, and Ammi, of each half an ounce, the roots of Peons, Polypodium, and Fennel, of each five drams, boil them in six pounds of river water, to three pounds, strain it, and add juice of Bettony two pounds, sugar three pounds and a half, make it into a Syrup.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Thou art the saviour God who wore Of old the semblance of a boar; Thou he whose discus overthrows All present, past and future foes; Thou Brahmá, That whose days extend Without beginning, growth or end; The God, who, bears the bow of horn, Whom four majestic arms adorn; Thou art the God who rules the sense And sways with gentle influence; Thou all-pervading Vishṇu Lord Who wears the ever-conquering sword; Thou art the Guide who leads aright, Thou Krishṇa of unequalled might.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Thus for the time were pulled down, in the persons of the Whig leaders and of Mr. Pitt (in spite of the services of the one at the accession of the royal family, and the recent services of the other in the war), the two only securities for the importance of the people; power arising from popularity; and power arising from connection .
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

There are six Tenses in the indicative, three of the present system, Present , Imperfect , and Future ; and three of the perfect system, Perfect , Pluperfect , and Future Perfect .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The chief distinctions of time are present, past, and future: 1.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

In one sense these stray birds are tiny prose poems, a fact which makes the dedication of the volume to 'T. Hara, of Yokohama,' peculiarly appropriate, for they all suggest the delicacy and minuteness of Japanese poetry as it is known to us in translation."
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

There is nothing that so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favour with them; nor panderism so apt and so usually made use of to corrupt the chastity of women as to wheedle and entertain them with their own praises.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Kalliope had been kept up by her native dignity and resolution, and had at first gently, then firmly, declined the arguments, persuasions, promises, and final reproaches with which they beset her—even threatening to disclose what they called encouragement, and assuring her that she need not reckon on Mr. White, for the general voice declared him likely to marry again, and then where would she be?’
— from Beechcroft at Rockstone by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Refusing to believe there could be any circumstances which could stand up against an officer of my power, position and force, he produced a note for a hundred francs and put it on my table.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919 by Various

Prudent parents, by insisting on good settlements and suitable pin-money (as a separate income is foolishly called), may secure their daughters against the tyranny of present power, and future extravagance; while a man who marries a good fortune, is enabled to relieve both himself and his wife from the tedium vitæ of each other's society, by keeping a hospitable table at which cheerful company may beguile the monotony of domestic routine."
— from Blue-Stocking Hall, (Vol. 2 of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

Her Majesty made the tour of the stately suite of rooms, lingering in the one in which "Robespierre was wounded, Louis Philippe proclaimed, and from the windows of which Lamartine spoke for so many hours in 1848."
— from Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 by Sarah Tytler

It is built of compressed stems of wheat, numerous and rather large scraps of printed paper, a few herbaceous plants, all closely compacted and curiously intermingled.
— from Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States Illustrated by Thomas G. (Thomas George) Gentry

Perhaps the best elucidation I can give of it will be to cite a certain passage in Dr. Nichols' Architecture of the Heavens , which happens to bear a rather remarkable, although I believe an accidental, resemblance to Shakspeare's words: accidental , because if Dr. Nichols had this passage of the Tempest present to his mind, when writing in a professedly popular and familiar style, he would scarcely have omitted allusion to it, especially as it would have afforded a peculiarly happy illustration of his subject.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 94, August 16, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

[Pg 198] Pablo Pimentel, and from Señor Leefdael the Judge, respecting the province of Caravaya.
— from Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India. by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir