Nature's own lionhearted Son; Antaeus-like, his strength is got by touching the Earth , his Mother; lift him up from the Earth, lift him up into Hypocrisy, Inanity, his strength is gone.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

I said this to myself; but now another summer is gone, and another, and another, and I am obliged to say to you, Reader, that the seeds which I planted, if indeed they were the seeds of those virtues, were wormeaten or had lost their vitality, and so did not come up.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Thy prime career of martial life began With spirit fit to shine in glory’s van; Comrades who groan’d to see thee yield thy breath, Yet almost envied thy heroic death.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

Talking of London, he observed, 'Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Smith, however, finding a ravine running towards his front, sufficiently deep to protect men in it from cross fire, and somewhat from a direct fire, put Martindale's division in it, and with Brooks supporting him on the left and Devens on the right succeeded in gaining the outer—probably picket—rifle-pits.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Their subjects in general were such as belong to an opening acquaintance.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

I know no word to say in Greek "discourse on ideas."
— from On Love by Stendhal

Baratilyúhun (ibaratilyu) níla ang ílang uld istak, Their old stock is going to be on sale.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Year after year my stock it grew, And from this one, this single ewe, Full fifty comely sheep I raised, As sweet a flock as ever grazed!
— from Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) by William Wordsworth

She is simply free after having lived in bondage; and she is glad in consequence.
— from The Girl of the Period, and Other Social Essays, Vol. 1 (of 2) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

Raul inhaled deeply, and said: "I know a sculptor in Guadalajara and I'll have him make a bronze figure for Caterina's grave.
— from When the Owl Cries by Paul Alexander Bartlett

A tall young mulatto woman had finally succeeded in getting a chance to speak, for there are always twice as many to talk as can find time.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899 Vol. LV, May to October, 1899 by Various

Neither he nor me could spoor in the dark, so I guessed he would pull up, an’ I didn’t want to run in on his assegai.
— from Tales from the Veld by Ernest Glanville

He succeeds in getting quite extraordinary relief, but at the expense of colour, which in glass is the most important
— from Windows: A Book About Stained & Painted Glass by Lewis F. (Lewis Foreman) Day

With excellent taste, Flinders, in his answer, avoided keeping his wife's name in the controversy, and he disposed of the allegations both effectively and judiciously: "My surprise is great that the Admiralty should attach any blame to me for the desertion of these men from the Advice brig, which is the next point in your letter, Sir Joseph.
— from The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Scott, Ernest, Sir

"Didn't say," says I. "Got a roll of something under one arm—crank promoter, maybe.
— from Torchy, Private Sec. by Sewell Ford

In the maturation of the male gamete the germ-cell, now known as a spermatogonium , increases greatly in size to become a primary spermatocyte .
— from Being Well-Born: An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. (Michael Frederic) Guyer

[165] "She is going to die," his heart kept crying, and he dragged himself into the cabin and flung himself upon Simon's bed, and when Joe Gourdon came in he was crying, his head buried in his arms.
— from A Gentleman of Courage: A Novel of the Wilderness by James Oliver Curwood