This was intended to represent the land of desire towards which the hero's eyes are turned, and whose shores seem continually to rise before him only to sink elusively beneath the waves, until at last they soar in very deed above the western horizon, the crown of all his toil and search, and stand clearly and unmistakably revealed to all the sailors, a vast continent of the future.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

"The endeavor to obtain the upper hand of those with whom we have to deal, to make good bargains, the higgling and scheming, and the thousand petty artifices, which in these days of stern competition are unscrupulously resorted to, tend to narrow the sphere and to lessen the strength of the intellect, and, at the same time, the delicacy of the moral sense.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

We doubled the point and with a strong current against us, ran up stream.
— from Extracts from the Diary of William C. Lobenstine, December 31, 1851-1858 by William C. (William Christian) Lobenstine

of the State Experiment Station his hybridizing tests during the past season with 135 different kinds of corn, incidentally mentions that "the red ears have a constancy of color which is truly remarkable; where sweet corn appears upon red pop and red dent ears the sweet corn partakes of the red color."
— from The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

Such cases are usually referred to as love-matches, but all they indicate is a (comparative) preference, while proving that there was no liberty of choice.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

§ 4 (see Contents ); as unverifiable representation, 74 Imagination-beliefs, 67 , 76 ; mimic perception-beliefs, 103 ; their power overrated, 103 - 4 ; allied to play-belief, 104 - 6 , 148 ; often inconsistent, 181 - 2 Indirect Magic, 129 , Chap.
— from The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by Carveth Read

I hold that those provinces of the Turkish Empire, which have been so cruelly and unjustly ruled, ought to be regarded as existing, not for the sake of any other Power whatever, but for the sake of the populations by whom they are inhabited.
— from Armenia and the War by A. P. (Avetoon Pesak) Hacobian

The British Government, immediately after rejecting the treaty as amended, proposed to enter into a new treaty with the United States, similar in all respects to the treaty which they had just refused to ratify, if the United States would consent to add to the Senate's clear and unqualified recognition of the sovereignty of Honduras over the Bay Islands the following conditional stipulation:
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents