Faria then drew forth from his hiding-place three or four rolls of linen, laid one over the other, like folds of papyrus.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

You shall see that, if Hymen likes to die in order to get rid of life, Love on the contrary expires only to spring up again into existence, and hastens to revive, so as to savour new enjoyment.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And Modred brought His creatures to the basement of the tower For testimony; and crying with full voice 'Traitor, come out, ye are trapt at last,' aroused Lancelot, who rushing outward lionlike Leapt on him, and hurled him headlong, and he fell Stunned, and his creatures took and bare him off, And all was still: then she, 'The end is come,
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

stæfrǣw f. row of letters, line of writing , ÆL 23b 767 : alphabet , BH 484 27 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

I do not know whether her melancholy proceeded from a headache, seated in the right or left lobe of her brain, or whether she was passing through one of those seasons of weariness during which all things appear black to us; but to see her negligently putting up her hair for the night, to see her languidly raising her leg to take off her garter, it seemed to me that she would prefer to be drowned rather than to be denied the relief of plunging her draggled life into the slumber that might restore it.
— from The Physiology of Marriage, Part 2 by Honoré de Balzac

The bread market is very quaint, rows and rows of long loaves of bread, which my guide says is sold very cheap to the poor Pg 19 people.
— from Through Bosnia and Herzegovina with a Paint Brush by Whitwell, Edward Robson, Mrs.

No such nature as that which has filled Europe with millions of armed men, here eager for conquest and there for revenge—no such nature as that which prompts the nations called Christian to vie with one another in filibustering expeditions all over the world, regardless of the claims of aborigines, while their tens of thousands of priests of the religion of love look on approvingly—no such nature as that which, in dealing with weaker races, goes beyond the primitive rule of life for life, and for one life takes many lives—no such nature, I say, can, by any device, be framed into a harmonious community.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

Then they danced the national dances and sang the national songs in the streets of Sofia, and carefully rehearsed shouts were raised of “Long live our heroic Czar!”
— from Ferdinand of Bulgaria: The Amazing Career of a Shoddy Czar by Anonymous

Nationality: noun: Latvian(s) adjective: Latvian Ethnic groups: Latvian 56.5%, Russian 30.4%, Byelorussian 4.3%, Ukrainian 2.8%, Polish 2.6%, other 3.4% Religions: Lutheran, Roman Catholic, Russian Orthodox Languages: Lettish (official), Lithuanian, Russian, other Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 100% male: 100% female: 99% (1989 est.)
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He goes down without ropes or life lines or air hose.
— from The Radio Detectives by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill

Hearsay is not the real thing in any realm of life, least of all in the realm of nature.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work by Mary Rogers Miller