Now, this conclusion (which is that of the story as we have it upon record) is, no doubt, excessively proper and pleasant—but alas!
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

This commentary, although it every where discovers evidence of highly respectable research, is not designed exclusively for the use of mere biblical critics.
— from Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman by William L. (William Leete) Stone

Properly guarded by the provisions of law, it can run into no dangerous evil, nor can any abuse arise under it but such as the Legislature itself will be answerable for if it be tolerated, since it is but the creature of the law and is susceptible at all times of modification, amendment, or repeal at the pleasure of Congress.
— from State of the Union Addresses by John Tyler

To be enabled to rise to this occasion, to ensure the energetic, the systematic and uninterrupted conduct of so vast and diversified an enterprise, amidst peoples and races fully as promising, and even more remotedly situated, and presenting them with a challenge more severe than any which has faced them in the past, the small band of the ardent, the high minded, the resolute followers of the Faith of Bahá’u’lláh, charged by Destiny and by virtue of the enviable position they occupy, with so glorious a responsibility for the future awakening of the great masses, living under the shadow of, or whose governments are directly associated with, the British Crown, must needs in the years immediately ahead, acquire greater coherence, increase more rapidly in numbers, definitely emerge from obscurity, plumb greater depths of consecration, enrich its store of administrative experience, become definitely self-supporting, and associate itself more closely, through the body of its elected representatives and its future Hands, with the National and Regional Spiritual Assemblies on the European mainland and in all the other continents of the globe, and particularly with the Hands already appointed in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
— from The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá'í Community : the Messages from the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith to the Bahá'ís of the British Isles by Effendi Shoghi

Quare nunc et nobis captivitas fratrum nostra captivitas computanda est, et periclitantium dolor pro nostro dolore numerandus est, cum sit scilicet adunationis nostræ corpus unum, et non tantum dilectio sed et religio instigare nos debeat et confortare ad fratrum membra redimenda.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

The reproductive image never duplicates experience, but in its major features it closely corresponds to it, whereas the productive image breaks up old experiences and from them makes new wholes which correspond to no definite occurrence.
— from How to Teach by Naomi Norsworthy

The river is not deep enough for ships.
— from Ned, the son of Webb: What he did. by William O. Stoddard

Among the small grosbeaks, pairs of which sit together, the intimate relation is never disturbed; even over the feeding-cup there is no quarrelling.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 696 April 28, 1877. by Various

It is fortunate that her cottage is at the extremity of the village; we have need of some place of concealment; and not far from her house there is that old uninhabited building in the middle of the fields, that one—but, your Highness knows nothing of these matters—which was burnt a few years ago, and, not having been repaired, is now deserted, except by the witches, who keep all cowardly rascals away from it; so that we may take safe possession.”
— from The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni

"When all my dreams by day or night Were love, still love--" "The rint is no dream," exclaimed Mrs. Malone, "and by gorry, I 'll have it, me canary-bird."
— from Tom Moore: An Unhistorical Romance Founded on Certain Happenings in the Life of Ireland's Greatest Poet by Theodore Burt Sayre