The entablature was mathematically parallel with the base.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

All his emotions and passions wish to assert their rights, and how remote a passion is From that cautious utility which consists in personal profit!
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Thus do we rise ill sights to see, And 'gainst ourselves to prophesy; When the prophetic fear of things A more tormenting mischief brings, More full of soul-tormenting gall, Than direst mischiefs can befall.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

As the cavalcade took up the line of march in single file, Sola dragged me into an empty chariot and we proceeded with the procession toward the point by which I had entered the city the day before.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

At times one catches a glimpse of cranes on the horizon, and a faint gust of wind brings their plaintive, ecstatic cry, and a minute later, however greedily one scans the blue distance, one cannot see a speck nor catch a sound; and like that, people with their faces and their words flit through our lives and are drowned in the past, leaving nothing except faint traces in the memory.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Yet the fellow, but for his unaccountable bashfulness, is pretty well too.
— from She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith

The plea was that of a gaunt-faced man of about thirty, who looked the picture of privation and wretchedness.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

0% 3% 6% 9% 12% 15% Figuring Costs and Profits While the cost of conducting a retail grocery business naturally varies according to local conditions and the size of the enterprise, an investigation among some 250 stores in small and large cities made in 1919 by the Bureau of Business Research, Harvard University, showed that the average cost was fourteen percent; that the net profit averaged two and three-tenths percent; and that stock was turned about seven times a year.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The Prince went to bed in silence, as he did not quite know how to begin a conversation with the hands that waited on him, and in the morning he was awakened by a noise and confusion outside of his window, and the hands came and quickly dressed him in hunting costume.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Night transcends, for that purpose, what the proudest day can do.)
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

But Philip was too quick for her.
— from Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

And when they can't elbow their way into the swell balls and parties, why, the next best thing is to read about who were there, and what they had on, and who led the German, and what they ate and drank, and how the house was decorated.
— from The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

Even the privilege which the smaller communes possessed of choosing their own mayors was speedily lost, while by a decree of March 25, 1852, the powers of the prefect in communal (p. 345) affairs were substantially extended.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

That the captain-general being convinced from the examination of my journal, that I had absolutely changed the nature of the mission for which the First Consul had granted a passport, wherein I was certainly not authorised to stop at the Isle of France to make myself acquainted with the periodical winds, the port, present state Of the colony, etc.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders

It is the inhabitants of Glencalvie, in number 90 people, whose turn it is now to be turned out of their homes, all at once, the aged and the helpless as well as the young and strong; nearly the whole of them without hope or prospect for the future.
— from The History of the Highland Clearances Second Edition, Altered and Revised by Alexander Mackenzie

After such means, used to impress Israel with a profound sense of God’s majesty and their infinite estrangement from him, his voice was heard, uttering in their ears the Ten Commandments, prefaced with the announcement of himself as their God and Redeemer.
— from A Bible History of Baptism by Samuel J. (Samuel John) Baird

More than once did he attempt to repeat this early success in winning two prizes with the same horse.
— from A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews

That prohibition, as interpreted by clerical authority at the time, had completely closed to me the treasures of the library my scholarly father had collected, and to which, under his dying [24] instructions, my mother had added many scores of volumes of the finest English literature, purchased with the money for which his law books had been sold after his death.
— from Recollections of a Varied Life by George Cary Eggleston

The conspirators expressed their obedience to the queen's demands, but they still proceeded with the plot.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

This loss of their temporary capital did not perceptibly weaken the Cuban position; indeed the patriot cause steadily grew in strength and numbers.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Willis Fletcher Johnson