Motionless, with her burning and fixed glances, in her solitary apartment, how well the outbursts of passion which at times escape from the depths of her chest with her respiration, accompany the sound of the surf which rises, growls, roars, and breaks itself like an eternal and powerless despair against the rocks on which is built this dark and lofty castle!
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

It is Abington Isle, one of the most northerly of the group; so solitary, remote, and blank, it looks like No-Man's Land seen off our northern shore.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

But before the reader allows himself to be too much swayed by these natural reflections, and before I lead him, as is the intention of this chapter, towards remedies and ameliorations and the discovery of happier tendencies, let him redress the balance of his thought by recalling two contrasts—England and Russia, of which the one may encourage his optimism too much, but the other should remind him that catastrophes can still happen, and that modern society is not immune from the very greatest evils.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Three miles away he came upon a fresh trail that sent his neck hair rippling and bristling, It led straight toward camp and John Thornton.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Just as I was going to proffer my painful request, Brother Stephano made his appearance in my room, and burst into loud laughter enquiring whether I had forgotten the blow from his stick!
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He was her first real interest since she had left Washington, and love reawakened and blew into life the embers she thought were gray-cold.
— from Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Robert S. (Robert Sproul) Carroll

And for this reason, and because in London he keeps the ease of his heart and continues to love the country, Wordsworth dismisses him with a blessing.
— from Oxford Lectures on Poetry by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

The Frenchman's weariness of a life that was given over to buttoning and unbuttoning, was mine, and in the short time between reveillé and breakfast, I lived through [81] much perturbation of mind, fearing I was behind time, and devoutly wished that women who followed the drum could have been clothed like the feathered tribe, and ready for the wing at a moment's notice.
— from Tenting on the Plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas by Elizabeth Bacon Custer

For, if the Houndes, be good Otter-Houndes, and perfectlye enterede, they wyl come chauntinge, and traylinge, alongst by the Ryversyde, and will beate, every tree-roote, every holme, every osier-bedde, and tufte of bullrushes; yea, sometymes, also, they wyl take the Ryver, and beate it, lyke a Water-Spaniell, so that, it shalle not be possible for the Otter to escape, but that eyther, the Houndes shall lyte upon hym, or [Pg 36] els, some of the Hunts men shalle stryke hym, and, thusse, you maye have excellente sporte, and pastyme, in hunting of the Otter, if the Houndes be goode and that the Ryveres be not over greate.
— from All About Dogs: A Book for Doggy People by Charles Henry Lane

62 note Floyer, Sir John, his Inquiry into the Right Use and Abuses of Hot, Cold, and Temperate Baths , i. 133 note Flyblow, a coxcomb, i. 312, 313 Flying Post, The , i. 133 note , 156 note , 293 note Folio, Tom ( i.e. Thomas Rawlinson), a broker in learning, iii. 234 seq. : his protest, iii. 248, 249 "Fondlewife," in Congreve's The Old Bachelor , i. 81 note Fontive, editor of Postman , iii.
— from The Tatler, Volume 4 by Steele, Richard, Sir

I have no acquaintances and do not require any, but I long to have some one with me to whom I could become attached and who could share my pleasures and leisure.
— from Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845-1916 by Olga Metchnikoff