Hence there must be 'a marriage of true minds' as well as of bodies, of imagination and reason as well as of lusts and instincts.
— from The Republic by Plato

For two hours rank and wealth, and obscurity and poverty clatter along side by side in the wild procession, and then go home serene, happy, covered with glory!
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

“But it seems to me that one might be able to do it for less; for there are artists of no reputation, and who are often better than the celebrities.”
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

He lived five years in Senegal, and wrote a natural history of this region as well as works on botany.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

His voice became soft and reminiscent, and with a sigh of contentment he launched into a long rambling talk, speaking as one lost in a dream.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

[He rises and walks away to the window.
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

It is rather dark on this side of the house, so I took it up to my own room, and worked at the window.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Not content with doubling the legitimate stages, they switched off the main road and went away out of the way to visit an absurd fountain called Figia, because Baalam’s ass had drank there once.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

But of these Sardinia and Corsica were possessed by the Vandals, and the two Rhaetias, as well as the Cottian Alps, seem to have been abandoned to a military government.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"Your modesty, my friend," remarked Adauctus with a smile, "shall not prevent your promotion, It is too rare a gift not to be encouraged."
— from Valeria, the Martyr of the Catacombs: A Tale of Early Christian Life in Rome by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow

Tom followed her across a soft-piled rug and through a wide doorway into a room all warmth and colour and leather chairs and book-lined walls and low lights.
— from Pitcher Pollock by Christy Mathewson

He was covered with dust, so that he resembled a walking ash-heap; and as for washing, I do not think he had ever experienced its terrors.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

At five o'clock a carriage came from Saint-Cloud; and as the Emperor heard it roll into the court he descended the stairs rapidly, and while a footman was opening the door and lowering the steps, he said to the persons inside: "Where is the Empress?"
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

Experimental infections have been successful on rats as well as on human beings.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

Letter to Mrs. Congreve, 5th May, 1860 We left Rome a week ago, almost longing, at last, to come southward in search of sunshine.
— from George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 (of 3) by George Eliot

From the petty harbour I saw a barque or two warping their way out, and was marvellous surprised when, presently, that great boat that had rowed, as we all supposed, to the attack of the Saracen's Head , returned very peaceably to the quayside laden with a fine catch of fish; by the which it manifestly appeared that they were no robbers, but a company of Moorish fisherfolk that had gone before daybreak to cast their seines; and as the sequel showed, to good purpose.
— from Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur Frederick Wallis

There were to be games too, races, and wrestlings, and other athletic sports, such as were in vogue in those times.
— from Romulus Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

Though Emile had a profound scorn for conventions, he had at one time had his place among that class of human beings that calls itself "Society," and he knew its rules and ways as he despised its hypocrisies.
— from The Hippodrome by Rachel Hayward