We can not bring ourselves to believe that the selections of the “Book of Gems” are such as will impart to a poetical reader the clearest possible idea of the beauty of the school-but if the intention had been merely to show the school’s character, the attempt might have been considered successful in the highest degree.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The longest lance his eyes had ever seen, Point-painted red; and seizing thereupon Pushed through an open casement down, leaned on it, Leapt in a semicircle, and lit on earth; Then hand at ear, and harkening from what side The blindfold rummage buried in the walls Might echo, ran the counter path, and found His charger, mounted on him and away.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

“That is exactly so.” “Once outside the gate, you gallop home, you get your card, you return, the cemetery porter admits you.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Confederates proclaimed themselves aliens, and thereby debarred themselves of all right to claim protection under the Constitution of the United States.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

These more numerous and more varied points of contact denote a greater diversity of stimuli to which an individual has to respond; they consequently put a premium on variation in his action.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

It, indeed, gives a truer result than could possibly be attained by any scientific inquiries that we could make, or could conceive of being effectively made, and this for the following reasons.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

He remembered the candy promised him by the doctor, the face and voice of his mother, the darkness in his hut at home, the stove, peevish granny Yegorovna . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

to keep in silence, not to reveal, to conceal; pass.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Under the humblest roof, the commonest person in plain clothes sits there massive, cheerful, yet formidable, like the Egyptian colossi.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

He raised the cap politely.
— from The Grand Babylon Hôtel by Arnold Bennett

There was one "point" in the story of Jukes' strange ride that Condy prided himself upon having discovered.
— from Blix by Frank Norris

In view of this costly experience it seems like an unpatriotic thing for the private lines now running to Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippines to be engineering a movement to have our proud little national fleet of transports abolished.
— from Blue Shirt and Khaki: A Comparison by James F. J. (Francis Jewell) Archibald

" After reading the curses pronounced in the Old Testament upon Jew and heathen, the descriptions of slaughter, of treachery and of death, the destruction of women and babes; after you shall have read all the chapters of horror in the New Testament, the threatenings of fire and flame, then read this, from the greatest of human beings: "The quality of mercy is not strained: It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Sobieski was 1674-96.] 114 [ “The district of Dobrzyn in Masovia, that exclusively Polish region the central point of which is Warsaw.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

"Now, the interesting thing about that situation is that, whereas insurance companies in those days were reluctant to give policies to those men, even at astronomical premium rates, disability insurance cost practically nothing—provided the insured would allow the insertion of a clause that restricted the covered period to those times when he was actually engaged in transporting nitroglycerine.
— from Anchorite by Randall Garrett

As yet nobody has succeeded in reaching that coveted point.
— from Frank Reade Jr.'s Submarine Boat; or, to the North Pole Under the Ice. by Luis Senarens

I bless God that he was pleased to open my mind to receive the complete perfect work of the dear Redeemer; that he shewed me it was neither my works nor my faith, (as a grace, nor as an act) that could justify me before God.
— from The Foundling; or, The Child of Providence by J. (John) Church

A slight flush rose to Cousin Penelope’s cheeks.
— from The Turned-About Girls by Beulah Marie Dix

The General Assembly projected by the national synod in Kilkenny, held its first meeting on October 14, 1642,—eleven spiritual and fourteen temporal peers, with 226 commoners, representing the Catholic population of Ireland.
— from An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack