Sooner or later, in six months, ten years, they will come together, will love; for fate has decreed it, and they are born one for the other.”
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

But Miao Shan only listened in silence with downcast eyes.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

The first practical evincement of it was exhibited by retiring from the world; that is, they retired from the noise and commotion, from the busy scenes of life, into some sequestered spot excluded from human observation.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Sooner or later I shall kill or be killed, and either event will be the death of me, so I am thinking of leaving this cutthroat place as soon as possible.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Some other like it sure the man must know, Or else would copy; or in bows he deals; Perhaps he makes them, or perhaps he steals."
— from The Odyssey by Homer

He tried to kiss the sweet little creature, but the red-haired boy saw that she was on the verge of tears, and he caught her hand and sobbed out loud in sympathy.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The rival raised up beyond the western waves by the astute sale of Louisiana is still growing.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

No fairer sight is to be seen than the glimpse of these grey walls and turrets rising out of a cloud of blossom to be had by him who shall stand in the market place of Kunitz and look eastward up the narrow street on a May morning; and if he who gazes is a dreamer he could easily imagine that where the setting of life is so lovely its days must of necessity be each like a jewel, of perfect brightness and beauty.
— from The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight by Elizabeth Von Arnim

The only sign of life I saw was a large animal (a wild boar, I think), which rushed out of the cover of some rushes when disturbed by our approach.
— from In the Russian Ranks: A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by John Morse

They flow forth only to evaporate sooner or later in some inland morass or sea, and to return in vapour that will be condensed again by the snows of Hermon.
— from The Holy Land by John Kelman

[61b] The see of Llandaff is said to have been founded by the British king Lucius as early as the year 180.
— from The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales by Cambrensis Giraldus

At the same time there was a certain sense of largeness in saying he could not come because he had received an invitation elsewhere, which gave him a momentary pleasure.
— from The Pansy Magazine, May 1886 by Various

She had scores of lovers in spite of her nose.
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Intoxicated by the atmosphere of travel that one breathes down there, the idea came into our minds of starting out, of going to seek our livelihood in some country where the sun shines, since the lands of mist were so inhospitable to us.
— from The Nabob by Alphonse Daudet

If you were to take a motor-ride along the North Shore of Long Island Sound and feel your way back into private lanes that appear to lead nowhere in particular, they are so deviously circuitous, you would pass by the lodge gates of two magnificent estates.
— from Mr. Bingle by George Barr McCutcheon

He never idealized or conventionalized, nor did he belong to those who only see the ugly side of life, its squalor and unpicturesqueness.
— from The Whistler Book A Monograph of the Life and Position in Art of James McNeill Whistler, Together with a Careful Study of His More Important Works by Sadakichi Hartmann