The nature of the streames that run belowe, 35 So your black haire and eyes do give direction To make me thinke the rest of like complexion: That rest where all rest lies that blesseth Man, That Indian mine, that straight of Magellan, That worlde dividing gulfe where he that venters, 40 With swelling sayles and ravisht senses enters To a new world of blisse.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

And yet it is difficult to suppose such a resemblance should exist between two jewels.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Although the result was successful, and I received five napoleons for my trouble, it made my wife very unhappy, for she could not forget the excellent orchestra, and the much more appreciative public, which a short time before in Dresden would have seconded and rewarded similar efforts on my part.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Latin was the common language of scholars and remained so even down to the days of Shakespeare.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

There is a saying at Rome, ‘Sine efusione sanguinis non fit remissio’, which may be interpreted, Nothing without money; and as a matter of fact, one can do anyth
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Whose these spent shafts at random spread, Each fearful with its iron head,— With golden mountings fair to see, Long as a chariot's axle-tree?
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

John's Brook, which flows into the Au Sable near the farmhouse at which we stayed, bears wild marks of this desolating freshet; indeed, one can scarcely credit the fact that the pretty little stream and smoothly purling river could ever have met in such desperate conflict as is evidenced by the scars and rifts still existing near their confluence.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Yet, yet, I own, so venerably dear Are Freedom's grave old anthems to my ear, That I enjoy them, tho' by traitors sung, And reverence Scripture even from Satan's tongue.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

That the objection drawn from the physiological difference between "species" and "races" still exists unrefuted.
— from On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart

A menu, made up of the items that she sent him, might well have softened the heart of even such a rank, swashbuckling enemy of the American Colonies as Dr. Johnson, who loved a good dinner even more than he hated the Americans.
— from Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce