It is evident in the first place, that this circumstance is not decisive; and though it may be able to diminish the passions, it is seldom it can entirely remove them.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

If there were water And no rock If there were rock And also water And water 350 A spring A pool among the rock If there were the sound of water only Not the cicada And dry grass singing But sound of water over a rock Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop But there is no water Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together 360 But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman —But who is that on the other side of you? What is that sound high in the air Murmur of maternal lamentation Who are those hooded hordes swarming Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth Ringed by the flat horizon
— from The Waste Land by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

I dare say I could easily reach to that blue ridge which I see from the tops of the trees, which no doubt must be a fine place; for the sun comes directly from it every morning, and it often appears all covered with red and yellow, and the finest colours imaginable.
— from Evenings at Home; Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened by John Aikin

(Odyssey) E. S. Shumway and Waldo Shumway, (Iliad) C. Elbert Rhodes] New York, 1911-12.
— from English Translations from the Greek: A Bibliographical Survey by Finley Melville Kendall Foster

But a majority of the States in Congress evidently regarded the power of admission as doubtful; and although they passed the resolves for the admission of new States,—principally because it was extremely important to invite cessions of Western territory,—they left the provision as to the mode of admission so indefinite, that the whole question of power would have to be opened and decided on the first application that [77] might be made by a State to be admitted into the Union.
— from History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2 With Notices of Its Principle Framers by George Ticknor Curtis

With all these little strings to his bow, it is no wonder that Markworth managed to get along pretty comfortably; and although he toiled not nor yet did he spin, I much question whether King Solomon if clad en règle to the nineteenth century would have been better dressed, taking Poole as a criterion.
— from Caught in a Trap by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

“I am your prisoner, signor,” she said, aloud; “and as such I claim every right to endeavour to escape as I best can.
— from The Pirate of the Mediterranean: A Tale of the Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

And at any rate, if he should, I can easily replace the olives.”
— from Tales of Folk and Fairies by Katharine Pyle

In the city of Manchester, N.H., a steam fire engine company is composed of fourteen men, all told, one of whom, acting as driver and steward, is constantly employed, remaining at the engine house with a pair of horses always ready to run out with the engine in case of an alarm of fire.
— from A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.

And—though Garin himself did not understand this—that glade in the forest toward Roche-de-Frêne, and that lawn of the poplar, the plane, and the cedar by the Convent of Our Lady in Egypt, that Tuesday and that Thursday, came somehow into contact, embraced, reinforced each the other.
— from The Fortunes of Garin by Mary Johnston

There always seemed to me a finality about it beyond any story I could ever read.
— from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series by James Edmund Dunning