Fair creatures of the woodland roam Untroubled near our hermit home.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Then is St. Marie hill lane, which runneth up north from Billingsgate to the end of St. Margaret Pattens, commonly called Roode lane, and the greatest half of that lane is also of Belinsgate ward.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Yet it carries with it thoroughly apodeictical certainty, i.e., absolute necessity, which therefore rests upon no empirical grounds.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

" "Oh!" said Coggan, surprised; "what's going on to-night then, make so bold Mr. Oak?" It seemed rather ungenerous not to tell Coggan, under the circumstances, for Coggan had been true as steel all through the time of Gabriel's unhappiness about Bathsheba, and Gabriel said, "You can keep a secret, Coggan?" "You've proved me, and you know.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

In the morning, having no money, and not knowing where to go, I went to St. Mark’s Library, where I remained until noon.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“Believe me,” &c. Catherine had not read three lines before her sudden change of countenance, and short exclamations of sorrowing wonder, declared her to be receiving unpleasant news; and Henry, earnestly watching her through the whole letter, saw plainly that it ended no better than it began.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Each was created only for exasperating the other; the virtues of one were the faults of his rival, until no good quality seemed to remain of either.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

For, notwithstanding all the assiduity of the physician who attempts to effect a cure, the disease remains unconquered, not through any fault of his, but because of the incurableness of the sick man.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Quiet being again restored, a delicious half-hour—so Frank called it, in the course of subsequent conversation with Tim Linkinwater as they were walking home—was spent in conversation, and Tim’s watch at length apprising him that it was high time to depart, the ladies were left alone, though not without many offers on the part of Frank to remain until Nicholas arrived, no matter what hour of the night it might be, if, after the late neighbourly irruption, they entertained the least fear of being left to themselves.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

'Let him declaim as pompously as he chooses upon the subject, it will be found to rest upon no better foundation than either his interest, his pride, his ease, or some such little and changeable passion as will give us but small dependence upon his actions in matters of great distress.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

If the call came for a raid upon New England, he took down his musket and his powder-horn, and set out blithely upon his snow-shoes for the rendezvous of war; if to rally to the defence of Quebec, he was equally ready to bury his chattels and take his place upon the city ramparts, or to withstand a landing on the Beauport shore.
— from Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan

By it it is settled that, so far as respects us, no tonnage duties shall be laid on British vessels but what shall be laid on those of all other nations; no duties on British articles but what shall be laid on those of every other nation; no embargo to affect Britain but what affects all other nations alike; American bottoms are left exposed to be charged, in the European British ports, tonnage duties equal to those laid on British bottoms here; countervailing duties may be laid in England to equalize the difference of duties on European or Asiatic goods imported here in British or American vessels; and no additional difference in tonnage or duties of this kind is to be made hereafter.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress

They reached the mayor's office a half-hour too early, and their turn was not reached until nearly eleven.
— from L'Assommoir by Émile Zola

We shall rear up no phantom armies, such as are said at times to be seen skirting the hills of Cumberland, to oppose to the levies of Sir James Graham; but whilst we are acting constitutionally and openly, let us hear no more of such language, which is somewhat worse than offensive.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 425, March, 1851 by Various

It is true that so far as external or objective forces are concerned we may be, as a rule, under no compulsion to follow one more than another; but subjectively we are in no sense free, because the peculiar way in which the will will act under given conditions must depend upon the preponderating subjective force.
— from The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting

2. The principle of non-social competition, exhibited in part in the political policy of eliminating weaker peoples, and conspicuously in foreign trade when the use of unfair methods relies upon national power to back up its exploitation or monopoly.
— from The Ethics of Coöperation by James Hayden Tufts

If stable manure is used it is at a moderate rate, usually not more than one or two shovelfuls to a plant.
— from The Vegetable Garden: What, When, and How to Plant by Anonymous

O God, Lord God of thy priests, rise up now and show thyself God.
— from Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne