The wildness of the wind increased, the moans grew shriller, coming from several statues, and swelling into a chorus.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

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— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

My wife is very anxious that you should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of you.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

PERSEPHONE I saw a tender maiden plucking flowers Once, long ago, in the bright morning hours; And then from heaven I saw a sudden cloud Fall swift and dark, and heard her cry aloud.
— from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho

Ten miles to the south, near the mouth of the 190 Calumet River, where that ore-boat was turning in, the “Johnson Cubs” and the “South Side Stars” and other organizations of boys, principally from the Thorp School, have been getting manual training and football and cross-country hikes and gymnastic skill under the direction of a salaried representative of the Permanent School Extension Committee, who has been trying to make their hours out of school count for something in their development.
— from The Women of Tomorrow by William Hard

A report prevailed at St. Cloud for several years that the ghost of the late Madame appeared near a fountain where she had been accustomed to sit during the great heats, for it was a very cool spot.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

Nature smiles, content, for she knows of no other sin than the sin against her law; she is on the side of the strong for her desire is for strong children, even though she should have to kill the “eternal ego” of the insignificant individual.
— from Married by August Strindberg

She was in the centre of its light and the last notes of her simple song called for so little effort that they only helped the eye to give itself wholly and instantly to the mere picture of her, slender, golden, magnified by this sudden outburst into blossom, and radiant with the tenderness of her words as a flower with morning dew.
— from Gideon's Band: A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable

Out of the strong came forth sweetness, ex forti dulcedo.
— from The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry by Walter Pater

Faille , v. to fail, S, C2; fayle , S2; failede , pt. s. , S.—AF. faillir ; Late Lat. fallīre for Lat.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The first was closed with the seale of the lord Thomas Randulfe earle of Murrie, lord of Annandale and of Man, lieutenant to Robert le Bruce king of Scotland, which conteined a safe conduct for sir Thomas Topcliue chapleine, and one to be associate with him to come into Scotland, and to returne from thence in safetie.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (10 of 12) Edward the Second, the Sonne of Edward the First by Raphael Holinshed