Two thousand years ago such dogmatism, readily welcome, would have scouted the idea of blond races ever leading civilization.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Unaccountably, perhaps, and close upon some space of unusually frequent intercourse—some congeries of rather exciting little circumstances, whose natural sequel would rather seem to be the quickening than the suspension of communication—there falls a stilly pause, a wordless silence, a long blank of oblivion.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

GENERAL R. E. LEE, Commanding Confederate Army.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Where reason exists life cannot, indeed, be altogether slavish; for any operation, however menial and fragmentary, when it is accompanied by ideal representation of the ends pursued and by felt success in attaining them, becomes a sample and anagram of all freedom.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The Army of Northern Virginia, General Robert E. Lee commanding, was on the south bank of the Rapidan, confronting the Army of the Potomac; the second, under General Joseph E. Johnston, was at Dalton, Georgia, opposed to Sherman who was still at Chattanooga.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

[That excellent and by all Physicians, approved, China drink, called by the Chineans Tcha, by other nations Tay alias Tee, is sold at the Sultaness Head Coffee-House, in Sweetings Rents, by the “Royal Exchange, London.” “Coffee, chocolate, and a kind of drink called tee, sold in almost every street in 1659.”—Rugge’s Diurnal.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I was no longer a restless, excitable little creature, requiring the attention of everybody on the train to keep me amused.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Stavvi Minos orribilmente, e ringhia: essamina le colpe ne l'intrata; giudica e manda secondo ch'avvinghia.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

All her life, all her desires and hopes were concentrated on this one man, still uncomprehended by her, to whom she was bound by a feeling of alternate attraction and repulsion, even less comprehended than the man himself, and all the while she was going on living in the outward conditions of her old life.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

La señora del alcalde era una dama bonachona, sin otra flaqueza que suponerse muy relacionada en la Corte.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

By the Rev. Edward L. Cutts , B.A., Author of "Turning Points of Church History," &c. With numerous Illustrations.
— from Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak by Henriette McDougall

The windows were thrown open, and the richly embroidered lace curtains drawn back, for the evening was more than usually sultry.
— from Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

“ General R. E. Lee , “ Commanding Confederate States Armies : “Your two letters of the 2d instant were received yesterday.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

At this time the letter, from which the following extract is made, was addressed by me to General R. E. Lee, commanding our forces in Maryland: "SIR: It is deemed proper that you should, in accordance with established usage, announce, by proclamation, to the people of Maryland, the motives and purposes of your presence among them at the head of an invading army; and you are instructed in such proclamation to make known," etc.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

Mostrava la ruina e 'l crudo scempio che fe' Tamiri, quando disse a Ciro: <>.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

Suddenly, {145} around the curve in the path where the thicket of roses blossoms, running rapidly ,) Enter Laddie ( carrying a stalk of the white lilies.
— from Within the Gates by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

"General R. E. LEE, commanding Confederate States Army: "In accordance with the substance of my letter to you of the 8th inst., I propose to receive the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia on the following terms, to wit: "Rolls of all the officers and men to be made in duplicate, one copy to be given to an officer designated by me, the other to be retained by such officers as you may designate.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

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— from Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 04, April 23, 1870 by Various