And the tall primeval trees rock eternally hither and thither with a crashing and mighty sound.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Next, the priests and the rest of the people come with the holy fire and march nine times round each house and thrice round the ladder that leads up to it, carrying the fire with them.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He wrote me a very polite letter in return, expressing his annoyance that I should have been received so uncourteously by detto Schmalz [melted butter]; so
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The more happiness we bestow, the more we shall receive, even here; and the greater will be our reward in heaven when we rest from our labours.”
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

I think, Watson, you and I will drive together to the Russian Embassy.” H2 anchor THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

H2 anchor COMBRAY Combray at a distance, from a twenty-mile radius, as we used to see it from the railway when we arrived there every year in Holy Week, was no more than a church epitomising the town, representing it, speaking of it and for it to the horizon, and as one drew near, gathering close about its long, dark cloak, sheltering from the wind, on the open plain, as a shepherd gathers his sheep, the woolly grey backs of its flocking houses, which a fragment of its mediaeval ramparts enclosed, here and there, in an outline as scrupulously circular as that of a little town in a primitive painting.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Should you fail to do so, that guardian of your honor, your courage, will forsake and leave you.—By the laws of Lycurgus, and by those which were given to the Cretans by Jupiter, or which Minos established under the direction of Jupiter, as the poets say, the youths of the State are trained by the practice of hunting, running, enduring hunger and thirst, cold and heat.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Lucilla, the emperor's sister, and widow of Lucius Verus, impatient of the second rank, and jealous of the reigning empress, had armed the murderer against her brother's life.
— 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

And then they want us to believe that experience, study, reflection, education, have anything to do with the matter!...”
— from Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 2 of 2) by John Morley

When the colonists knew that Germany was really establishing herself as their neighbour on the north, they were much annoyed; but it was now too late to resist, and in 1884, after a long correspondence, not creditable to the foresight or promptitude of the late Lord Derby, who was then Colonial Secretary, the protectorate of Germany was formally recognized, while in 1890 the boundaries of the German and British "spheres of influence" farther north were defined by a formal agreement—the same agreement which settled the respective "spheres of influence" of the two powers in Eastern Africa, between the Zambesi and the upper Nile.
— from Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

With a sudden and irresistible impulse Robin extended his arms towards her.
— from The Battery and the Boiler: Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

in two pills, form, perhaps, the best and safest sedative which can be given; these may be repeated every hour, and then at longer intervals of two or more hours, until sleep has been produced.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

With this theory as a starting-point, Schopenhauer reduces every human action to one, or sometimes to two, or at most three motives: the first is selfishness, which seeks its own welfare; the second is the perversity or viciousness which attacks the welfare of others; and the third is compassion, which seeks their good.
— from The Philosophy of Disenchantment by Edgar Saltus

So integrity, unswerving integrity, is rated exceptionally high, and the least suspicion of trickery or underhand dealing may keep a capable man on the lowest rung of the ladder for all time, even if it doesn’t put him out of the business entirely.
— from The Best Policy by Elliott Flower

Mendelssohn, who always liked a "nice, swift tempo ," repeatedly expressed his aversion to Chopin's rubato .
— from Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Henry T. Finck