Young people have read it, first, for its intrinsic worth, because the dramatic interest of the story lured them on to the very end; and second, because it was their introduction to true allegory.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Perhaps a thousand times he had heard the remark, “Ilium fuit,” followed in most instances by a hail to himself as “AEneas,” with the inquiry “Where is old Anchises?”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Neither the end, then, nor the means of this advice pleases me, for we often fall out of the frying-pan into the fire.—[or: we always relapse ill from fever into fever.]—This book-employment is as painful as any other, and as great an enemy to health, which ought to be the first thing considered; neither ought a man to be allured with the pleasure of it, which is the same that destroys the frugal, the avaricious, the voluptuous, and the ambitious man.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret; I never answer'd, — I was not in debt.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

Representation is far from idle, since it brings to focus those mechanical unities which otherwise would have existed only potentially and at the option of a roving eye.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret; I never answered—I was not in debt.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

stubborn, thick-ribbed, made of iron, deep-rooted; strong as a lion, strong as a horse, strong as an ox, strong as brandy; sound as a roach; in fine feather, in high feather; built like a brick shithouse; like a giant refreshed.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

but we should find, that their arts and improvements are not so similar and uniform as they now appear to us, but that they arose in the same manner from experience and tradition, as the arts of our own species; though their reasoning is from fewer ideas, is busied about fewer objects, and is exerted with less energy.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin

So many vessels have from time to time disappeared and never been heard of, between Singapore and China, as to render it far from improbable, that there are numbers of British subjects now in confinement on the northern coasts of Borneo and Palawan.
— from Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. by G. F. Davidson

Can we say that such is the case, if it remains in full force in one county, while it is repealed in others by a vote of the people, and a license law adopted in its stead?
— from Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse Prepared for use of Members of the Family by Charles Clinton Nourse

The old legend, turning upon the monomania of the family, was revived in full force in reference to this poor gentleman; and many a time Middleton’s interlocutors shook their wise heads, saying with a knowing look and under their breath that the old gentleman was looking for the track of the Bloody Footstep.
— from Sketches and Studies by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wherefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against him, and He sent against him Ashmodai, the ruler of [16] the demons; and he drave him from the throne of his kingdom, and took away the ring from his hand (Solomon's ring is famous for its marvellous powers in all Oriental fable), and sent him forth to wander about the world.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Book of Ecclesiastes by Samuel Cox

COMOROS Introduction Historical perspective: Comoros has had difficulty in achieving political stability, having endured 18 coups or attempted coups since receiving independence from France in 1975.
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Now the Repealer is flung far into the province of an impossible idealism: and the leader of one of our great parties, having said, in a heat of temporary sincerity, that he would repeal an Act, actually had to write to all the papers to assure them that he would only amend it.
— from Eugenics and Other Evils by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

My former intentions of visiting Texas returned in full force; I decided on crossing to the other side to look for a house, and procure food and powder, and resolved then to strike off in a south-west direction in search of the route to Texas.
— from Wild Sports in the Far West by Friedrich Gerstäcker

Howbeit so doleful a fellow was by no means pleasing in my brother’s eyes, and so he right plainly gave him to understand; then the Bohemian called to mind their former friendship, and entreated him to put himself in his place and not to forget that he, as a man sound of limb, would have avenged the scorn put on him by Rochow in fair fight instead of with a dagger-thrust.
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Complete by Georg Ebers