From out the throng and stress of lies, / From out the painful noise of sighs, / One voice of comfort seems to rise, /
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

But, from the march of the emperor, I rather judge, that his Saleph is the Calycadnus, a stream of less fame, but of a longer course.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I refer to the orange-tawny coats used by the hunt servants of Lord Fitzhardinge, and now worn by the hunt servants of the Old Berkeley country, near London.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

At ten yards and a half deep, we walked amidst a shoal of little fishes of all kinds, more numerous than the birds of the air, and also more agile; but no aquatic game worthy of a shot had as yet met our gaze, when at that moment I saw the Captain shoulder his gun quickly, and follow a moving object into the shrubs.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

"Ooo-ray-oo-ray-oo-ray-ooray!" they heard, and the stamping of little feet on the floor, and the clinking Page 329 [Pg 329] of glasses as little fists pounded on the table.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

With its untold depths, couldn't the sea keep alive such huge specimens of life from another age, this sea that never changes while the land masses undergo almost continuous alteration? Couldn't the heart of the ocean hide the last–remaining varieties of these titanic species, for whom years are centuries and centuries millennia?
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Our losses were: Killed and Missing Wounded Total Loss in June Aggregate 1,790 5,740 7,530 Johnston makes his statement of losses from the report of his surgeon Foard, for pretty much the same period, viz., from June 4th to July 4th (page 576): Killed Wounded Total Total 468 3,480 3,948
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The stream of lava flowing from the bowels of the earth in 1219 had forced itself a passage through the tunnel.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

The full meaning of this change in law and opinion can only be fully understood, however, when it is considered in connection with the growth of communication, economic organization, and cities, all [Pg 558] of which have so increased the mutual interdependence of all members of society as to render illusory and unreal the old freedoms and liberties which the system of laissez faire was supposed to guarantee.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

He came to this country endorsed by the strongest of letters from Charles Dickens, who was his friend, and weighted by the wholesale and impolitic puffery of his managers; the result was that, in the judgment of the majority of those who saw him, he did not and could not sustain the magnificent reputation claimed for him in his advance advertisements.
— from Curiosities of the American Stage by Laurence Hutton

So I smoked on, looking forth into the darkening gloom.
— from Spies of the Kaiser: Plotting the Downfall of England by William Le Queux

At the same time, the organism remains awake and active during the time it should be replenishing energy for the next day's work, which means that the latter also has to be done at the expense of the reserve supply of life force.
— from Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease & Cure by Henry Lindlahr

I suppose it will all come out, sooner or later, for he has been in the guardroom several times for drunkenness, and one of these times he will be sure to blurt it out.'" "Isn't that extraordinary, father?"
— from The Curse of Carne's Hold: A Tale of Adventure by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Then came the aristocracy of wealth, which prevails in our day, whereby those who obtain fortunes by birth, accident, parsimony, force or fraud, claim superiority over others less sordid or less fortunate.
— from The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Geo. W. (George Woodward) Warder

The Vicar of Christ is at one time worshiped as a god by princes seeking absolution for sins or liberation from burdensome engagements; at another he is trampled under foot, in his capacity of sovereign, by the same potentates.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds

He was able to dissect some which had been in a state of lethargy for at least a week or a fortnight, although, under normal conditions, these insects in summer decay rapidly, and after forty-eight hours cannot be used for anatomical purposes.
— from The Industries of Animals by Frédéric Houssay

The elaborate system of state insurance against sickness, accident, old age, and unemployment, now in operation in England and Germany is another governmental attempt to secure a certain standard of living for all.
— from Consumers and Wage-Earners: The Ethics of Buying Cheap by J. Elliot (John Elliot) Ross

Under Cradock they remained cantoned in the suburbs of Lisbon for the whole time during which Soult was completing his conquest of Oporto and northern Portugal, and Victor executing his invasion of Estremadura.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Charles Oman