With that he spurred his horse unto the sycamore, and blew the ivory horn so eagerly, that all the castle rang its echoes.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

For regarding him as one of the many animal genera, nature has not in the least excepted him from its destructive or its productive powers, but has subjected everything to a mechanism thereof without any purpose.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

It was in this trying situation, exposed to a galling fire of blank cartridges, and harassed by the operations of the military, a fresh body of whom had begun to fall in on the opposite side, that Mr. Pickwick displayed that perfect coolness and self-possession, which are the indispensable accompaniments of a great mind.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Thus the will of the people, the will of the prince, the public force of the State, and the particular force of the government, all answer to a single motive power; all the springs of the machine are in the same hands, the whole moves towards the same end; there are no conflicting movements to cancel one another, and no kind of constitution can be imagined in which a less amount of effort produces a more considerable amount of action.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Then I shall enter the academy, and get instructed in drawing, and be called an architect.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I was under constraint in my own house: this is saying everything; the air of love was prejudicial to good friendship.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

'It was possessed by, and was the property of—him as I have made mention on,' said Riderhood, stupidly evading the actual mention of the name.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

From the very beginning the wife should endeavour to attract the heart of her husband, by showing to him continually her devotion, her good temper, and her wisdom.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

It is a pity that our habitual use of the Psalter should encourage this application of it.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon and the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Walter F. (Walter Frederic) Adeney

All night long, they roamed from one sacred edifice to another, thoroughly destroying as they went.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) by John Lothrop Motley

Striking evidences thereof are the debates in the 1894-5 sessions of the Reichstag, both on the floor of the house and in committee, on the so-called "revolutionary bill," as well as numerous other discussions in all parliaments.
— from Woman under socialism by August Bebel

But I am not aware that she ever taught any lesson save the lesson that men and women must endeavor to be heroes and heroines for themselves, heroes and heroines though all the world else were craven and weak and selfish and unprincipled.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

As it was, his dream fancies were suddenly dispelled by the coming of a musky, acrid odor that swept across his small but sensitive nostrils with much the same effect that a sound box on the ear would have upon a sleeping child.
— from Jan: A Dog and a Romance by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

In such a case a part of the subsidy, equivalent to all the salaries, is retained to guard against accidents, or else a sum is set apart for that purpose out of a deposit lodged by the impressario with the Commissione or the municipality.
— from The Operatic Problem by William Johnson Galloway

Overcome with shame, she had hardly time to bury herself under the quilt again before Fräulein von Schwertfeger's eyes took a hasty survey of the room and alighted on something grey and round in a corner.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

It was not simply a great mountain of snow slipping thunderously down to the valleys beneath; but in its ever gathering momentum and incredible velocity it tore great rocks from the ground and either snapped off trees as if they had been straws, or wholly uprooted them, and now was a fast-flying mass of snow, earth, trees and rocks whirling and hurtling through the air.
— from The Black Pearl by Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.