We have only to make sure that the ship cannot come into port between sunset and sunrise without our being warned, and we shall be safe.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

SYN: Creative, conceptive, ideal, poetical, romantic, inventive, original.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

We saw above that the wicked man, by the vehemence of his volition, suffers constant, consuming, inward pain, and finally, if all objects of volition are exhausted, quenches the fiery thirst of his self-will by the sight of the suffering of others.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

i ranocchi pur col muso fuori, si` che celano i piedi e l'altro grosso, si` stavan d'ogne parte i peccatori; ma come s'appressava Barbariccia, cosi` si ritraen sotto i bollori.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Ricordati di me, che son la Pia; Siena mi fè; disfecemi Maremma; Salsi colui, che inanellata pria Disposando, m'avea con la sua gemma.
— from On Love by Stendhal

The tale is based on seven manuscripts ranging in age from the Leabhar na h-Uidhre of about A. D. 1100 to six others belonging to the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries (cf. ib., p. xvi).
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Eh?' 'Not one,' replied Master Bates, in a voice rendered husky by regret; 'not one.' 'Then what do you talk of?' replied Fagin angrily; 'what are you blubbering for?' ''Cause it isn't on the rec-ord, is it?' said Charley, chafed into perfect defiance of his venerable friend by the current of his regrets; ''cause it can't come out in the 'dictment; 'cause nobody will never know half of what he was.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

A silver challenge cup is presented to the COCK-HOUSE of the year.
— from The Public School Word-book A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities by John Stephen Farmer

Pythagoras Terram Planetam quendam esse censuit qui circa solem in centro mundi defixum converteretur, Pythagorans secuti sunt Philolaus, Seleucus, Cleanthes, &c. imò PLATO jam senex, ut narrat Theophrastus. Libert.
— from Democritus Platonissans by Henry More

When the last session of the second Congress commenced in Philadelphia on the fifth of November, 1792, ominous clouds were gathering in the political horizon, which gave Washington many apprehensions of an impending storm.
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

Yet withal, imperfectly (or not at all, rather) as Septimius could comprehend its purport, this strange writing had a mystic influence, that wrought upon his imagination, and with the late singular incidents of his life, his continual thought on this one subject, his walk on the hill-top, lonely, or only interrupted by the pale shadow of a girl, combined to set him outside of the living world.
— from Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Captain Macdonald; Captain Seager; Major Sillery; Major Morris; Dr. Rowdon, civil surgeon, late professor of anatomy at Middlesex Hospital; W. Heaton, Esq., medical staff; Richard Ambler, Esq.; J. S. Robertson, Esq., purveyor-general to the forces; Rev. George Lawless, senior chaplain; Rev. Hugh Drennan, chaplain; Rev. W. Fergusson, chaplain;—Hawkes, Esq., barrister-at-law; Eustatio S. Ralli, Esq., sen., Greek merchant; Etienne Eustatio Ralli, jun., Esq.;—Dixon, Esq., first-class interpreter to Lord William Paulet; [18] Monsieur Soyer, &c. &c. Indisposition prevented the attendance of his Excellency Omer Pacha.
— from Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions by Alexis Soyer

If anything could have convinced Roberts that success can come in public life to a man who pursues it by honest methods it was the success of James Rossmore.
— from The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life by Arthur Hornblow

Expressing my regrets, owing to having an urgent call from the probation officer of the juvenile court of Santa Cruz City, I promised to visit them on the return trip—a promise that I carried out on the following evening.
— from Fifteen Years with the Outcast by Fflorens Roberts

As the olive, when planted in vineyards, communicates its savour to the vine, so charity communicates its perfection to the virtues amidst which it flourishes.
— from The Month of Mary, According to the Spirit of St. Francis of Sales Thirty-One Considerations With Examples, Prayers, Etc. by Francis, de Sales, Saint