By all that is luminous and strong and good in thee, O Zarathustra!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city."
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

[353] These things are said to the adversaries of the city of God who belong to Babylon, who presume in their own strength, and glory in themselves, not in the Lord; of whom are also the carnal Israelites, the earth-born inhabitants of the earthly Jerusalem, who, as saith the apostle, "being ignorant of the righteousness of God,"
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

I RETURN TO IRELAND, AND EXHIBIT MY SPLENDOUR AND GENEROSITY IN THAT KINGDOM How were times changed with me now!
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Then he will suspect the letter was a trick; and maybe he'll find out something about it, and we shall all get into trouble.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

How she could refuse a Fletcher visibly amazed the lady; but she forgave the slight, and gently insinuated that "my brother" was, perhaps, only amusing himself.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

He pointed out almost every individual of both sexes, and generally introduced them to our notice, with a flourish of panegyrick—Seeing the king approach, ‘There comes (said he) the most amiable sovereign that ever swayed the sceptre of England: the delicioe humani generis;
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

It was not the expression of the valley's consciousness that beautiful Tess had arrived, but the ordinary announcement of milking-time—half-past four o'clock, when the dairymen set about getting in the cows.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

He hesitated for a moment, then resolutely descended the stairs and made his way to the cliff where Isagani was accustomed to sit and gaze into the depths of the sea.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

The fight between two dogs on a village street affords great interest to the mixed crowd that gathers around it; cocks pitted against each other collect the rabble, and the bull fight of Spain furnishes a national amusement; but of all fights that between a pack of ravenous dogs and a frenzied bear is the most exciting.
— from The Heart of the Alleghanies; or, Western North Carolina by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler

He felt the edge of his hatchet, climbed the steep ascent, and struck a gash in the stem of the nearest poplar.
— from Lost in the Wilds: A Canadian Story by Eleanor Stredder

The week before the Sizes they came to Excester , setting up their Horses at an Inn, they presently (not to lose time) walkt to see the City, and under that pretence to try what advantages they 153 could make therein, went into several Taverns, and where they could not get civily into company they thought they might bubble, they rudely intruded, and had like to have been soundly basted for their pains; they found that Gaming would not suit their purpose in that precise place; therefore the next day they resolved to experience what Jilting would do; and that they might carry on their design with the less suspition, they bespoke a Dish or two of Meat for Dinner in a Tavern, inviting the man of the House and his Wife to eat with them, they called freely for Wine, and drank pretty smartly; at length they were left alone, one of them steps up the stairs, and gets into the Vintners Lodging Room, where seeing a large Trunk, he attempts to open it with his Pick-lock, (which they have of all sorts and sises from a Street Door to a Cabinet) being too long a fumbling about his business, the Vintner came up to his Comrade the mean time, and asking where his Friend was; the other replyed he was gone up to the House of Office; Nay, that cannot be , replyed he, for it is below in the Yard and thereupon (his heart mis-giving him) he ran up hastily the stairs, and looking back saw him that he left below at the stair-head ready to go down, and the other that was above coming out of his Chamber, not knowing how to seize them both, he cryed out, stop the Thief that is coming down , and in the mean time clos’d in with him that was above and struggling with him, he was forc’d to quit an Hundred Pound-Bagg, that the Jilt had got under his Arm, which made the Vintner then more eager to secure him: in short, they were both secured and carried before a Justice; there needed no other 154 evidence to convict them, than a great bunch of those Pick-locks found about them.
— from The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants: The Fourth Part by Francis Kirkman

Thereon Asbiorn ungirt his sword and gave it to me solemnly.
— from A Sea Queen's Sailing by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

It was perhaps an evasive little letter, after all, she thought, as she stamped and gave it to the contadine’s boy to mail.
— from The Erratic Flame by Ysabel De Teresa

The heads of all these lakes are in the southern highlands, making the watershed, south of which the streams are gathered into the Canisteo River, meaning "the board on the water," which flows into the Chemung, the "big horn," and thence by the Susquehanna down through Pennsylvania to the Chesapeake.
— from America, Volume 4 (of 6) by Joel Cook

Yet, looking back over the whole affair in a more calm and philosophical spirit, any General, I think, would now be bound to admit that in some respects at least fortune had not been too unkind.
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Ian Hamilton

The foliage, generally, has now assumed a yellow hue from the effects of the severe frosts; and some of the more sensitive shrubs already glow in the deepest tints of orange, portions here and there showing like broad red stripes down the mountain; so vivid is the colour, and the whole effect of outline and detail is enchanting.
— from The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains by Augustus Henry Irby