It was hard to believe that amongst so prosaic surroundings of neglect and dust and decay there was any ground for such fear as already we knew.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Norwegian emigration to the United States took the sailing of Norden and Den Norske Klippe in 1836.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

“Seeing all the household in confusion, I ventured to come out regardless whether I were seen or not, and determined, if I were, to do some frenzied deed that would prove to all the world the righteous indignation of my breast in the punishment of the treacherous Don Fernando, and even in that of the fickle fainting traitress.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

‘My dear Sir, pray let the matter rest where it is,’ said the little attorney, who had been in a state of nervous apprehension during the whole interview; ‘Mr. Pickwick, I beg—’ ‘I will not be put down, Sir,’ replied Mr. Pickwick hastily.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Late as I slumber'd in the shades of night, A dream divine appear'd before my sight; Whose visionary form like Nestor came, The same in habit, and in mien the same.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Darkness, on the contrary, by replunging nature, as it were, into a state of nothingness, and depriving man of the pleasurable emotions conveyed through the organ of sight, was ever held in abhorrence, as a source of misery and fear.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

How universally efficacious—how satisfactory, too, and soothing to the injured sensibility of narrowness and dulness—is this easy method of accounting for whatever lies beyond the world's most ordinary scope!
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The lie concerning duty is even less natural, since promises to do or refrain from doing are conventional agreements which are outside the state of nature and detract from our liberty.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There was nothing to be frightened at in these natural signs of neglect and decay; but when a man cried out, “There!
— from Great Porter Square: A Mystery. v. 2 by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

The final syllables of ‘Septembre,’ ‘Octobre,’ ‘Novembre’ and ‘Décembre,’ are inverted in English, and are written ‘Septemb er ,’ &
— from A Book About Words by G. F. (George Frederick) Graham

I looked again and again across the space which, during successive ages, had given birth to so many feelings, and nurtured so many anxious passions; but which now, for many ages, has, among bustling generations, lost all claim to sympathy or notice; and displays, at this day, nothing but the still mechanism of vegetable life.
— from A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir

That such a subject is not considered a necessary part of education is indeed lamentable, for the crass ignorance that everywhere abounds upon the subject of nutrition and diet is largely the cause of the frightful disease and debility so widespread throughout the land, and, as a secondary evil of an enormous waste of labour in the production and distribution of unneeded food.
— from No Animal Food; and Nutrition and Diet; with Vegetable Recipes by Rupert H. Wheldon

We have seen how President Andrew Jackson some thirty years before, had stamped out Nullification and Disunion in South Carolina, with an iron heel.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

The happy gates of gospel grace Stand open night and day, Lord, we are come to seek supplies, And drive our wants away.
— from Hymns and Spiritual Songs by Isaac Watts

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— from Himalayan Journals — Complete Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. by Joseph Dalton Hooker

In the original there were neither commas nor stops of any kind, not even notes of exclamation,—a fact which tends to undervalue the system of notes and dashes by which modern authors have endeavored to depict the great disasters of all the passions:— Henry,—Among the manny sacrifisis I imposed upon myself for your sake was that of not giving you anny news of me; but an iresistible voise now compells me to let you know the wrong you have done me.
— from The Thirteen by Honoré de Balzac

It appears to me, therefore, that M. Boeckh has not satisfactorily made good his point — “Plato cannot have believed in the diurnal rotation of the earth, because he unquestionably believed in the rotation of the sidereal sphere as causing the succession of night and day.”
— from Plato's Doctrine Respecting the Rotation of the Earth and Aristotle's Comment Upon That Doctrine by George Grote

The noble classic figure of Orpheus, with his flowing white robe, his simple fillet on his brow, and his lyre in his arm, standing before the iron gates and moving by his song the powers of hell, soon gave way to the gorgeous exhibitions in which the splendors of Night and Dawn were made the subjects of a series of glittering scenes enveloping a plan much like that of some modern ballet spectacle.
— from Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson