Sad ending to the day that had risen on them all like a beginning of better times!
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Now, William Dobbin, from an incapacity to acquire the rudiments of the above language, as they are propounded in that wonderful book the Eton Latin Grammar, was compelled to remain among the very last of Doctor Swishtail's scholars, and was "taken down" continually by little fellows with pink faces and pinafores when he marched up with the lower form, a giant amongst them, with his downcast, stupefied look, his dog's-eared primer, and his tight corduroys.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

And after the reverence made, they made relation of their answer, like as ye to-fore have heard.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

wherein he says: "And lastly let it be noted that what we call truth," &c., (see ante , p. 168,) wherein he teaches that "if ye live after the flesh," if you are guided by " truth ," if you are able perfectly to maintain "the accurate correspondence of subjective to objective relations," "ye shall not surely die," you will attain to what is successful action , the preservation of "life," of "the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations," of the animal life, and thus your bodies will live forever—the highest good for man; but if you "mortify the deeds of the body," if you pay little heed to "the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations," you [181] will meet with " error , leading to failure and therefore towards death,"—the death of the body, the highest evil which can befall man,—and so "ye shall" not "live."
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

The sight of any of the house of York Is as a fury to torment my soul; And till I root out their accursed line And leave not one alive, I live in hell.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I think the easiest method for myself, and most intelligible to my readers, will be to start from the period of the restoration of the Achaean league and federation, after its disintegration into separate states by the Macedonian kings: from which time it has enjoyed an unbroken progress towards the state of completion which now exists, and of which I have already spoken at some length.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

That block of stone so smooth and square Was set for thee to rest on there, And like a thriving Keśar tree This flowery shrub o'ershadows thee.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The repeal of the ancient law, and the practice of five hundred years, were insufficient to eradicate the prejudices of the Romans, who still considered the marriages of cousins-german as a species of imperfect incest.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

At the lower part of the leg, this muscle ends in three or four flat tendons, which pass through a ring of the annular ligament, and extending forwards, b b b b , over the dorsum of the foot, become inserted into the four outer toes.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Every living experience, actual or remembered, takes something of its hue from those which precede or follow it: now catching the reflection of the adjoining lights and shades; now brighter or darker by contrast with them.
— from A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.

See in that smoking, and blood-drenched house of bondage, the consequences of oppression, disobedience, and an obstinate rejection of truth, and light, and love.
— from Letters to Catherine E. Beecher, in reply to an essay on slavery and abolitionism, addressed to A. E. Grimké by Angelina Emily Grimké

There is not a fragment of the organism of this humble animal whose study would not lead us into regions of thought as large as those which I have briefly opened up to you; but what I have been saying, I trust, has not only enabled you to form a conception of the scope and purport of zoology, but has given you an imperfect example of the manner in which, in my opinion, that science, or indeed any physical science, may be best taught.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

Here he found relaxation of thought, at least, and, to a degree, amusement.
— from The Cassowary; What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains by Stanley Waterloo

There is not a fragment of the organism of this humble animal, whose study would not lead us into regions of thought as large as those which I have briefly opened up to you; but what I have been saying, I trust, has not only enabled you to form a conception of the scope and purport of zoology, but has given you an imperfect example of the manner in which, in my opinion, that science, or indeed any physical science, may be best taught.
— from Man's Place in Nature, and Other Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

You may even, by Comte Ferraud’s intervention, have your name replaced on the army list as general, and no doubt you will get a pension.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

I then went to the board, with all the representatives of the American lines, and quietly told the members that we wanted fires and lights on the docks at night, that we needed this in order to carry on our business in our way, and that unless we could have them, we should at once go to other ports.
— from My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands, Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train