For, since it would be utterly in vain to suppose a rule set to the free actions of men, without annexing to it some enforcement of good and evil to determine his will, we must, wherever we suppose a law, suppose also some reward or punishment annexed to that law.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

“It seems to me,” I replied, “that such approval, such ratification of the opinion expressed by the king, the princes of the blood, etc., is rather a proof of the affection felt for them by the nation, for the French carry that affection to such an extent that they believe them infallible.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me; Lend me thy handkerchief.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Amongst the cartilaginous ones, petromyzons-pricka, a sort of eel, fifteen inches long, with a greenish head, violet fins, grey-blue back, brown belly, silvered and sown with bright spots, the pupil of the eye encircled with gold—a curious animal, that the current of the Amazon had drawn to the sea, for they inhabit fresh waters—tuberculated streaks, with pointed snouts, and a long loose tail, armed with a long jagged sting; little sharks, a yard long, grey and whitish skin, and several rows of teeth, bent back, that are generally known by the name of pantouffles; vespertilios, a kind of red isosceles triangle, half a yard long, to which pectorals are attached by fleshy prolongations that make them look like bats, but that their horny appendage, situated near the nostrils, has given them the name of sea-unicorns; lastly, some species of balistae, the curassavian, whose spots were of a brilliant gold colour, and the capriscus of clear violet, and with varying shades like a pigeon's throat.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

"If we were at the Emerald City we could then move directly southward, and so reach our destination.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

For Ilion now (her great defender slain) Shall sink a smoking ruin on the plain.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The first words written on the parchment found in the leaden box were these: THE ACADEMICIANS OF ARGAMASILLA, A VILLAGE OF LA MANCHA, ON THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA, HOC SCRIPSERUNT MONICONGO, ACADEMICIAN OF ARGAMASILLA, ON THE TOMB OF DON QUIXOTE EPITAPH The scatterbrain that gave La Mancha more Rich spoils than Jason’s; who a point so keen Had to his wit, and happier far had been If his wit’s weathercock a blunter bore; The arm renowned far as Gaeta’s shore, Cathay, and all the lands that lie between; The muse discreet and terrible in mien As ever wrote on brass in days of yore; He who surpassed the Amadises all, And who as naught the Galaors accounted, Supported by his love and gallantry: Who made the Belianises sing small, And sought renown on Rocinante mounted; Here, underneath this cold stone, doth he lie.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

From three o'clock onward they would be burning rosin and pitch pine (the sign of preparation), and so one had the picturesque spectacle of a rank, some two or three miles long, of tall, ascending columns of coal-black smoke; a colonnade which supported a sable roof of the same smoke blended together and spreading abroad over the city.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

As I had already been in such adventures, I did not lose my presence of mind, and having still a shadow remaining of that regard which the army accorded me on account of the esteem and confidence which M. de Lévis and M. de Montcalm had always shewn me publicly, I called to M. Hugon, who commanded, for a pass in the hornwork and begged of him to accompany me to the bridge.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir

This shows a simple representation of a thing or event in picture, as of a bear, a man’s hand, a battle.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

It must have been printed in a small printing office since in the last pages the supply of *'s and †'s ran out and other characters were substituted.
— from Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment by John C. Lester

Not so the stern And sweet repose of soul which we can earn Only through reverence and humility!
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald

And when she heard that, up she reared herself, and raised such a shrill response of "Remember Nathaniel Bacon!"
— from The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

At these cries an old soldier, a sergeant, rushed out of the nearest inn.
— from The Invasion of France in 1814 by Erckmann-Chatrian

They tell us that there is a constant tendency in the Book to accumulate excess of substance, and such repleteness, obscuring the glass it holds to mankind, renders us inexact in the recognition of our individual countenances: a perilous thing for civilization.
— from The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith

It must be admitted that the French soldiers also suffered revulsion of feeling when the facts became better known.
— from The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 by Joel R. (Joel Roscoe) Moore

Something in Marjorie’s gay, gracious manner sent a swift rush of shamed color to Lucy’s white cheeks.
— from Marjorie Dean, High School Senior by Josephine Chase

It is the word I read in the portrait before me as I write these lines—the beautiful portrait of the Mémoires , where his face looks out in sad and stern reproach on the age that so misunderstood him.
— from Musicians of To-Day by Romain Rolland