Sir Peter Parker was the friend of both, and thus it happened that whenever Nelson got a step in rank, Collingwood succeeded him.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

The infernal storm is raging ceaselessly, Sweeping the shades along with it, and them It smites and whirls, nor lets them ever be. Arrived at the precipitous extreme, [253]
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

“She indeed requires consolation; she accused herself of having caused the death of my brother, and that made her very wretched.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

FAUST You'll ne'er attain it, save you know the feeling, Save from the soul it rises clear, Serene in primal strength, compelling
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

and, but for the digression, and monopoly of space, we might trace it much further, and show that Confucius, like Christ, had twelve chosen disciples; that he was descended from a royal house of princes, as Christ from the royal house of David; that he, in like manner, retired for a long period from the noise and bustle of society into religious contemplative seclusion; that he inculcated the same Golden Rule of doing to others as we desire them to act toward us, and other moral maxims equal in importance to anything that can be found in the Christian Scriptures, etc.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

To all this Don Quixote said in reply, "Children, senor, are portions of their parents' bowels, and therefore, be they good or bad, are to be loved as we love the souls that give us life; it is for the parents to guide them from infancy in the ways of virtue, propriety, and worthy Christian conduct, so that when grown up they may be the staff of their parents' old age, and the glory of their posterity; and to force them to study this or that science I do not think wise, though it may be no harm to persuade them; and when there is no need to study for the sake of pane lucrando, and it is the student's good fortune that heaven has given him parents who provide him with it, it would be my advice to them to let him pursue whatever science they may see him most inclined to; and though that of poetry is less useful than pleasurable, it is not one of those that bring discredit upon the possessor.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“It is ridiculous to do so,” I replied; “common sense forbids us calling a thing old which was once young enough.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The conclusion from these two premises is that [Pg 7] I must be allowed complete freedom of speech, as well as the right of questioning everything; and furthermore, that if I succeed in really contributing something, however small, to this subject, then that contribution will be of no little importance.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

"Last night as I lay sleeping in the midst of all my dream My assay ran six ounces clear in gold, And the silver it ran clean sixteen ounces to the seam, And the poor old miner's joy could scarce be told.
— from Cowboy Songs, and Other Frontier Ballads by Various

To all this Don Quixote said in reply, “Children, senor, are portions of their parents’ bowels, and therefore, be they good or bad, are to be loved as we love the souls that give us life; it is for the parents to guide them from infancy in the ways of virtue, propriety, and worthy Christian conduct, so that when grown up they may be the staff of their parents’ old age, and the glory of their posterity; and to force them to study this or that science I do not think wise, though it may be no harm to persuade them; and when there is no need to study for the sake of pane lucrando, and it is the student’s good fortune that heaven has given him parents who provide him with it, it would be my advice to them to let him pursue whatever science they may see him most inclined to; and though that of poetry is less useful than pleasurable, it is not one of those that bring discredit upon the possessor.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"No, you didn't say it," returned Chester significantly.
— from The Boy Allies with Marshal Foch; or, The Closing Days of the Great World War by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

Two soldiers in Roman costume stand by, one with lance, and the other with raised sword.
— from The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

Soothly, who can say? Yar Mahommed only grins in a nasty way, Jowar Singh is reticent, Chimbu Singh is mute.
— from Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling

Precisely so, my dear sir, I replied; common sense, AS YOU UNDERSTAND IT.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

He assumed an unequaled style of magnificence in living; but reverses came, and his splendid property on Madison Square, including residence, costly stables and private theatre, passed into the hands of the Union League Club, and was occupied by them until they went to their new quarters in Fifth Avenue.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier