Whenever the same movements of the features or body express the same emotions in several distinct races of man, we may infer with much probability, that such expressions are true ones,—that is, are innate or instinctive.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

These movements are not, to be sure, direct results of Mr. Washington's teachings; but his propaganda has, without a shadow of doubt, helped their speedier accomplishment.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

He whom fair Aphrodite called her son, She, the adored, she, the imperial One; He passed as winds that shake the soul, as pains Sweet to the heart, as fire that warms the veins; He passed and left my limbs dissolved in dew, Relaxed and faint, with passion quivered through; Exhausted with spent thrills of dread delight, A sudden darkness rushing on my sight.
— from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho

Juvenal (ix, 32 et seq.), “Destiny rules over mankind; the parts concealed by the front of the tunic are controlled by the Fates; when Virro sees you naked and in burning and frequent letters presses his ardent suit, with lips foaming with desire; nothing will serve you so well as the unknown measure of a long member.”
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Next, to the Son, Destined Restorer of mankind, by whom New Heaven and Earth shall to the ages rise, Or down from Heaven descend.—Such was their song; While the Creator, calling forth by name His mighty Angels, gave them several charge, As sorted best with present things.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Jackson hesitated not on the alternative, and with but six days’ rations of meat, and less than two of meal, he moved with his army upon the Coosa; and, with Coffee’s command, gave a most decisive blow to the enemy at Tallus 173 hatchee, in less than twenty-five days after he had marched from the rendezvous at Fayetteville.
— from Anecdotes of the American Indians Illustrating their Eccentricities of Character by Alexander Vietts Blake

The law of kingly love would have said, nay: and not for persuasion of such as never can or will stead you, but dishonour you to keep their own rule, lay behind you such due regard of me, and in it of yourself, who, as long as you use this trade, will be thought not of yourself ought, but of conventions what they will.
— from Border Raids and Reivers by Robert Borland

“Yes, monsieur; if God wills, I shall die rector of Montegnac.
— from The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac

It is just such delicate recognition of my rank and lordly belongings that makes Joseph's companionship ofttimes a pleasure.
— from At Close Range by Francis Hopkinson Smith

When the old man saw my straw hat a gleam of interest came into [Pg 64] his dull eye, and he came over and sat down right opposite me.
— from Just Irish by Charles Battell Loomis

Here genre painting reaches its apogee in American literature: quaint interiors scrupulously described; rounds of minute activity familiarly portrayed; skimpy moods analyzed with a delicate competence of touch.
— from Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) by Carl Van Doren

It is so old and tumble-down that, more than once, when looking into some dark room on my way to the parlour or the Director's office, I almost expected to see the heavy chains, the thumb-screws, the rack, the bilboes and other instruments of a torture-chamber!
— from My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil

We scrambled over the outer fence, and ran some dozen rods or more in the open field, without either of us looking back.
— from Wild Northern Scenes Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod by S. H. (Samuel H.) Hammond

The fearful punishment of the day's work on the knives had shown itself, and since dark, relays of mechanics from the Sleepy Cat shops had been busy with the cutting gear, and the companion plough had already been ordered in from the eighth district.
— from The Daughter of a Magnate by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman