We learn no other but the confident tyrant Keeps still in Dunsinane and will endure Our setting down before't.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The mere sense-impressions are the same when the sleep is deep as when it is light; the difference must lie in a judgment on the part of the apparently slumbering mind that they are not worth noticing.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

When I do not sleep I dream, and when I am tired of dreaming I blacken paper, then I read, and most often reject all that my pen has vomited.’
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

While he was thus disposed, God appeared to him, and comforted him, saying, That he ought not to be uneasy at what the multitude desired, because it was not he, but Himself whom they so insolently despised, and would not have to be alone their king; that they had been contriving these things from the very day that they came out of Egypt; that however in no long time they would sorely repent of what they did, which repentance yet could not undo what was thus done for futurity; that they would be sufficiently rebuked for their contempt, and the ungrateful conduct they have used towards me, and towards thy prophetic office.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Chickens are scattering its dust abroad with their beaks.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

She is doing a wonderful bust of Dr. Kenn entirely from memory."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

It was finally to disappear from the fleets whose speed it delayed and whose evolutions were by it complicated .
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

It was already candle-light when we reached the hamlet, and I shall never forget how much I was cheered to see the yellow shine in doors and windows; but that, as it proved, was the best of the help we were likely to get in that quarter.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

For just as food, dispersed through all the pores Of body, and passed through limbs and all the frame, Perishes, supplying from itself the stuff For other nature, thus the soul and mind, Though whole and new into a body going, Are yet, by seeping in, dissolved away, Whilst, as through pores, to all the frame there pass Those particles from which created is This nature of mind, now ruler of our body, Born from that soul which perished, when divided Along the frame.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Each village, however small, usually contains a leader, one among themselves whom they venerate, whose advice they seek in difficulty, and whose good opinion they chiefly value.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I did take it up to put it away, but I set it down again when I ran after Robert to see the puppies.
— from Lily Norris' Enemy by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

Then slowly its daily appearance will come to them as the sun comes in the morning and the stars at night.
— from By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb Wilkins

It is the foundation of courage, which includes in Plato lxviii moral courage, the courage of enduring pain, and of surmounting intellectual difficulties, as well as of meeting dangers in war.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Surely they must know better than a lad like you!" Ned shrugged his shoulders in despair, and went out to see what were the preparations for defence.
— from By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The men said it did, and went off to put on their riding things, and four horses were saddled and brought around from the stable.
— from Van Bibber and Others by Richard Harding Davis

Moreover, (p. 283) while in his higher characters he has almost absolutely failed, he has succeeded in drawing a whole group of strongly-marked lower ones.
— from James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury

in the sense of praise or glorification; very probably it may mean some such initial doxology as we find in Mohammedan works.
— from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo

She can blame nobody but me, if she is displeased at what she sees.”
— from The Mayor's Wife by Anna Katharine Green

The first night was spent in darkness and without fires.
— from The War in the Air by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells