I rise, And sun myself in Ellen's eyes, Drive the fleet deer the forest through, And homeward wend with evening dew; A blithesome welcome blithely meet, And lay my trophies at her feet, While fled the eve on wing of glee,— That life is lost to love and me!'
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

“What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind—then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it’s all as it should be.” H2 anchor CHAPTER III He waked up late next day after a broken sleep.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To reap absolute success might involve the necessity even of dropping all wagons, and to subsist on the chance food which the country was known to contain.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

I gave it a last tap, tried all the screws again, put one more drop of oil on the quartz rod, and sat myself in the saddle.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Ang iyaan kung sapían mauy báka litsíra sa ákung pagtuun, My rich aunt supported me in my studies.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In doing this he availed himself of the piety of Thwackum, who held, that if the end proposed was religious (as surely matrimony is), it mattered not how wicked were the means.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

“Yes, yes, run along,” said Marilla indulgently.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

She took the shades off the candlesticks, had new wallpaper put up, the staircase repainted, and seats made in the garden round the sundial; she even inquired how she could get a basin with a jet fountain and fishes.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

If the Sides of the Ray are posited the same way to both Crystals, it is refracted after the same manner in them both: But if that side of the Ray which looks towards the Coast of the unusual Refraction of the first Crystal, be 90 Degrees from that side of the same Ray which looks toward the Coast of the unusual Refraction of the second Crystal, (which may be effected by varying the Position of the second Crystal to the first, and by consequence to the Rays of Light,) the Ray shall be refracted after several manners in the several Crystals.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

When it is dry, beat it into powder, and with Syrup made with the juice of Orris roots and sugar, make it the second time into a mass for pills.
— 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

The simple and honest manner in which he discussed the questions of the day became very popular, for he always advocated that which was right, and there was always more presswork to do every week, which he seemed to regard as an imposition on Martin, who had formerly had that hard part of the work to perform, and on the plea of needing exercise he early began to run the press himself, and in the history of the business at that time no man was known who could equal him in the rapid and steady manner in which he went about it.
— from The Story of a Country Town by E. W. (Edgar Watson) Howe

But her color deepened as Ruth added still more impressively: "Nay, my lamb, she told me o' war times to come, beside.
— from From Kingdom to Colony by Mary Devereux

the road,’ and at last, as the shades of night began to fall, one who was present rose and said: “‘Monsignore, I beg you to remember that it is growing late, and you must really get on a little faster in your journey, for if you are not in Florence to-day, the gates will be shut, and unless you get here in time you will not be allowed to enter, and thus you will miss being ordained, and cannot enter on your office.’
— from Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland

The time during which the financing of the German industries by French money (the so-called French “pensions"), i.e. the discounting by French capitalists of bills drawn by German industrialists, played an important part, and even represented a serious menace in days of political tension, had only just passed, but, thanks to the increasing capital strength of Germany, its effects had now quite ceased to make themselves felt.
— from Albert Ballin by Bernhard Huldermann

He would have liked to free Les Jardies from its mortgage and keep the place as a summer resort, while renting a snug mansion in the city during the winter; but the two abodes were hardly within his means, unless Eve would loosen her purse-strings.
— from Balzac by Frederick Lawton

During the hours on the 10th of March, while the English columns were toiling up from the rear to join the Light Division, Ney’s and Junot’s corps remained stationary, the former at the town of Pombal, the latter at Venda da Cruz, five miles behind it, resting, and seeking (mostly in vain) for provisions.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 Massena's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona by Charles Oman

Just as we approached the "Bear Inn" the leader became restive, turned round and stared me in the face, a mode of salutation by no means agreeable; then he began to lash out, and finally succeeded in upsetting us and breaking the shafts.
— from Coaching, with Anecdotes of the Road by Lennox, William Pitt, Lord

Most eagerly the Misses Fairland consented, and were leaving the room to prepare to go, when Mr. Harrington turned to Agnes, who happened to be in the room, and said: "May I not hope for the pleasure of Miss Elwyn's company too?"
— from Lewie; Or, The Bended Twig by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford

But as for old Suet yonder, rip and stab me if I do not pay him back in gold coin before two hours is out!
— from The High Toby Being further chapters in the life and fortunes of Dick Ryder, otherwise Galloping Dick, sometime gentleman of the road by H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott) Watson