But amid stern or lovely nature, in the perils of the forest or its overwhelming peacefulness, still there had been two phantoms, the companions of his way.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Generosity was the same on every side; only according to the tribe's degree of wealth it found expression, now in the quarter of goat's flesh necessary for the support of life, now in the gift of a hundred camels, occasioned by some family connexion or reasons of hospitality.
— from On Love by Stendhal

But there was no such definition in the speech of Lysias; nor is there any order or connection in his words any more than in a nursery rhyme.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

There were no signs of lameness now in this tall youth, and his face was radiant with happiness.
— from What Two Children Did by Charlotte E. (Charlotte Elizabeth) Chittenden

I don’t pretend that I am a particularly desirable person, but I am, at any rate, not too bad to realise that you are the dearest and sweetest thing I have ever met, or to fail in keeping my word when I promise that you shall never regret it if you say “yes.” I haven’t a great deal to offer you, beyond my love, but that I offer to you, not in the spirit of last night in the shadow of that accursed Image, but earnestly, and faithfully, and eternally.
— from Stolen Idols by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

'My dear Sir,' he ought to have said, 'Our Lord never in the whole course of his ministry claimed to be the Christ.'
— from On a Chinese Screen by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

The stranger of last night, in the old trousers and shirt, was alone, sitting on the bench and looking upward.
— from Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

There’s no closed season on lobsters, not in the State of Maine.”
— from Witches Cove A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

"The separation of large numbers in this manner certainly facilitates the reading them rightly.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

M. Edmond About, in the Soir of last night, insists that we ought to have agreed to the armistice, even without a revictualment; and such appears to be the opinion of almost everyone.
— from Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere

Mocket's book is less one to read than to treasure as a sort of lusus naturæ in the literary world; for it would certainly have seemed safe antecedently to wager a million to one that no Warden of All Souls' would ever write a book that would be subjected to the indignity of fire; and, in spite of his example, I would still wager a million to one that a similar fate will never befall any literary work of Mocket's successors.
— from Books Condemned to be Burnt by James Anson Farrer

[Pg 379] XVIII THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH LITERATURE Scope of study of English literature in college It should be understood at the outset that this paper is concerned with the study of literature, not in the university or graduate school, but in the college, by the undergraduate candidate for the bachelor's degree; and, furthermore, that the object of study is not the history, biography, bibliography, or criticism of literature, but the literature itself.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

From these young experiences he gained that insight into the lives of the lower classes and that sympathy with children and with the poor which shine out in his pathetic sketches of Little Nell, in The Old Curiosity Shop ; of Paul Dombey; of poor Jo, in Bleak House ; of "the Marchioness," and a hundred other figures.
— from From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers