For, while the flesh endures, sorrow and evil and the scorpion whips of sin must endure also; but when the flesh hath fallen from us, then shall the spirit shine forth clad in the brightness of eternal good, and for its common air shall breathe so rare an ether of most noble thoughts that the highest aspiration of our manhood, or the purest incense of a maiden’s prayer, would prove too earthly gross to float therein.”
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

My heart a charmed slumber keeps, 12 While I muse upon thy face; And a languid fire creeps Thro' my veins to all my frame, Dissolvingly and slowly: soon From thy rose-red lips MY name Floweth; and then, as in a swoon, 13 With dinning sound my ears are rife,
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

For in the very necessity of that which is purposive, and is constituted just as if it were designedly intended for our use,—but at the same time seems to belong originally to the being of things without any reference to our use—lies the ground of our great admiration of nature, and that not so much external as in our own Reason.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

No; I was not willing presently to know the evil of sin, nor the destruction that follows upon the doing of it; but tried, when my mind at first began to be shaken with the Word, to shut mine eyes against the light thereof.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

You are, however, perfectly justified in saying that the most renowned generals of Rome even cannot boast of such military exploits as we can.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

ou mên oud' adynaton oud' asaphes exeurein, hoti mê tô pleistên en heautô periechein to meli tên xanthên cholên all' en tô sômati metaballomenon eis autên alloioutai te kai trepetai.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

It is a recompilement of my Essays Moral and Civil; but in such manner enlarged and enriched both in number and weight, that it is in effect a new work.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Drawing back a step, Miss Evelyn again raised her hand and arm, and this time her aim was so true that the longer points of the rod doubled between the buttocks and concentrated themselves between the lips of Mary’s privates.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Now this did not arise from any difficulty in comprehending the ideas in the book, because it does not make much difference whether the subject has been simple or otherwise; neither did it arise from the want of all mental activity, for the mind was so much engaged as to read every word and every letter in the pages upon which we were occupied.
— from A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education by James Gall

Even then, Kate hoped that by keeping deathly still she might escape an unpleasant meeting.
— from Laramie Holds the Range by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

During the years 1914-1917 so many English agents got into Germany in the guise of American correspondents—sometimes with the full knowledge of their Anglomaniac American employers—that the Germans, just before the United States entered the war, were considering barring American correspondents from their country altogether.
— from Prejudices, Third Series by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

A silence for several minutes ensued; and then Lord Jamleigh spoke to our host as follows:— "Most of the young noblemen who come to this country, come only to travel about and amuse themselves.
— from Wanderings in India, and Other Sketches of Life in Hindostan by John Lang

"I worked very hard, papa; all the harder because I was so anxious to come home; and I fancied I might shorten my exile a little by being very industrious." "Humph!
— from The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Before long I could shut my eyes and, beginning at the foot of a business street, call off the names of the firms in proper order along one side to the top of the street, then crossing on the other side go down in regular order to the foot again.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie

" AND K. A. JUTHE, M.E. Chief Engineer, American Metallurgical Corp. Member American Society Mechanical Engineers, American Society Testing Materials, Heat Treatment Association, Etc.
— from The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by K. A. (Kristian A.) Juthe

In the mollusk the change was apparently still more easy and the development still more rapid.
— from The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by John M. (John Mason) Tyler

and there she was talking in such a disagreeable, sneering voice to Miss Hamilton, only I stopped my ears and would not listen.
— from Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey