" There is one idea concerning purity which should never have been conceived, and, having been conceived, should be, once and forever, eternally exploded.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

With the greatest trouble I worked myself up to some kind of enthusiasm for the great scene between Orestes and the Furies.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

There ruled he his ancestral state, Best of all men, most fortunate.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Phrygia, 78 n. Picardy, 215 n. Pickering, 3 n. Picts, the, xxiii , xxvi , xxix , xxx , xxxi , 7 , 9 , 205 , 219 , 385 , 391 ; their law of succession, 8 ; their incursions, 7 , 8 , 20 n., 23 , 26 , 28 , 30 ; subdued by Oswy and made subject to Northumbria, 94 , 191 , 244 , 381 n.; regain their Independence, 244 n., 286 , 381 n.; defeat Egfrid at Nechtansmere, 285 ; at peace with the English, 381 ; their conversion, 141 , 359 n., 383 ; attitude towards Easter question, 196 , 359 , 374 . Picts, King of, see Bridius , Bruide Mac Bili , Naiton , Oengus .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

From this sublime scene the travellers continued to ascend among the pines, till they entered a narrow pass of the mountains, which shut out every feature of the distant country, and, in its stead, exhibited only tremendous crags, impending over the road, where no vestige of humanity, or even of vegetation, appeared, except here and there the trunk and scathed branches of an oak, that hung nearly headlong from the rock, into which its strong roots had fastened.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

she burst out angrily; "I'm not a stupid.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

“I suppose so, but only a few of the men in the United States took it.”
— from Scott Burton, Forester by Edward G. (Edward Gheen) Cheyney

Bertha couldn’t help feeling, even from this distance, that it had not a single bud or a faded petal.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

The most common kind of Sea-Anemone is of a dull dark red colour, and small in size; but others are large and brilliant in colouring.
— from Stories of the Universe: Animal Life by B. Lindsay

The place is swept bare of all other buildings but the ruins of the Gautier wire mill.
— from The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by James Herbert Walker

procedure, 413. penalties, 414. number of victims, 414 f. scope, 415. in Spanish dependencies, 416. Roman, 416 f. Index , 420, 423. in Portugal, 445. suppresses books on anatomy, 613. and philosophy, 628.
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

He thought of adopting a child, and as this idea grew he was surprised to find that his thoughts constantly formed themselves not in the image of his own sex, but of a young girl, fragile and unprotected, innocent, with the dawning wonder of the world in her eyes, light of foot, warm of voice, with the feeling of the young season of spring in the rustle of her garments.
— from The Salamander by Owen Johnson

Oh! the rich hot summer afternoons among the grass and the clover, the little lamb-daisies, and the big horse-daisies, with the cattle feeding solemnly, but one and another straying now to the corn, now to the turnips, and recalled by stern shouts, or, if that were unavailing, by vigorous pursuit and even blows!
— from Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald

A pitiful thing, nothing superhuman, but old and fading, going the way of all flesh.
— from Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun