Neither will we rely on the new; and so we walk ever with reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

This tendency to introduce romantic episodes led to an important development.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Statutes with us are recent, legislatures making statutes are recent everywhere; legislatures themselves are fairly recent; that is, they date only from the end of the Dark Ages, at least in Anglo-Saxon countries.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The two first are abandoned by 102 tradition; but the sons of Krishna, who accompanied them after an intermediate halt in the further Duab [17] of the five rivers, eventually left the Indus behind, and passed into Zabulistan, [18] founded Gajni, and peopled these countries even to Samarkand.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

We were resting and reviving our strength by gazing into one another’s eyes, when suddenly Lucrezia, casting a glance to the right, exclaimed, “Look there!
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Y un taimado poeta que le oía, Le respondió en los términos siguientes: —Al humilde jumento Su dueño daba paja, y le decía: ¡Toma, pues que con esto estás contento!
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

The few of her friends who had found their way into the court, and who were standing discreetly in the background, Mr. Symeon, Mr. Amphlett and Lady Susan, Father Cyprian Hammond, Claude Rutherford, Eustace Lyon, the poet—these admired and wondered.
— from Beyond These Voices by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

However clearly he might see the approach of danger, and however vigorously he might prepare to repel it, Philip was not of that frame of mind which suffers remote evil long to interfere with present enjoyment.
— from Philip Augustus; or, The Brothers in Arms by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The story reads exactly like the story of Goethe and Schiller.
— from The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story by Frank Harris

Occasionally, the white ones have red eyes, like those of the ferret and the white rabbit.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

Rising late and retiring early, like the good King of Yvetot, he cheated the hours that might have proved weary.
— from The Rough Road by William John Locke

One morning Manabush rose early, leaving the two boys asleep.
— from Two Indian Children of Long Ago by Frances Lilian Taylor

Here the water was observed to be much saltier to the taste than that of the open sea, a fact easily accounted for, as it is subject to the fierce tropical sun, and the consequent rapid evaporation leaves the saline property in aggregated proportions at the surface.
— from Due West; Or, Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou