It seemed as if the spirit of spring had passed through the summer-house.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Which doctrine the third Commandement by resemblance pointeth to. H2 anchor And To Have Dayes Set Apart To Learn Their Duty Fourthly, seeing people cannot be taught this, nor when 'tis taught, remember it, nor after one generation past, so much as know in whom the Soveraign Power is placed, without setting a part from their ordinary labour, some certain times, in which they may attend those that are appointed to instruct them; It is necessary that some such times be determined, wherein they may assemble together, and (after prayers and praises given to God, the Soveraign of Soveraigns) hear those their Duties told them, and the Positive Lawes, such as generally concern them all, read and expounded, and be put in mind of the Authority that maketh them Lawes.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

But on safe opportunities, she had an indirect mode of making her negative wisdom tell upon Dorothea, and calling her down from her rhapsodic mood by reminding her that people were staring, not listening.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

If space allowed, these opinions could be amply strengthened by similar statements of Sir Henry Clinton, the English commander-in-chief.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

That is what dismayed me: the sense of some hitherto unsuspected power, through whose intervention my invention had vanished.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

This prints my Letters , that expects a bribe, And others roar aloud, "Subscribe, subscribe." There are, who to my person pay their court: I cough like Horace , and, tho' lean, am short, Ammon's great son one shoulder had too high, Such Ovid's nose, and "Sir! you have an Eye" — Go on, obliging creatures, make me see All that disgrac'd my Betters, met in me.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

As the Senate, although it frequently met, came to no decision on this matter, the plebeians suddenly assembled in a body, left the city, and established themselves on what was afterwards called the Mons Sacer, or Sacred Hill, near the river Anio.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

The only such presumption which it could be supposed to have, must be grounded on its having lasted till now, when so many other things which came down from the same odious source have been done away with.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

And for long she stayed there at the entrance of her chamber, held back by shame; and she turned back once more; and again she came forth from within, and again stole back; and idly did her feet bear her this way and that; yea, as oft as she went straight on, shame held her within the chamber, and though held back by shame, bold desire kept urging her on.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

Count Henri-Louis de Loménie, of Brienne,--who, after being secretary of state, had retired to the Oratoire,--was engaged in bringing out a better collection of Christian lyrics.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

On several such occasions she had made valuable tours of investigation through the madam's desk and private papers.
— from Exit Betty by Grace Livingston Hill

Or else he had got money from some other source; he may have gambled with what part of his pay he received in the early campaigns.
— from Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Robert Neilson Stephens

And when in January Jimmie and Deror read of the revolting of a brigade of German troops, and a strike of several hundred thousand working men throughout Germany, they thought the end was at hand.
— from Jimmie Higgins by Upton Sinclair

We hear that the "Constitution can do nothing," that "the Congress can do nothing," to which I reply, Woe, and shame, and guilt, and execration must be, and ought to be, the portion of that people calling themselves Christians and republicans, who can tolerate, through half a century, a Constitution and a Congress that cannot prevent nor cure the buying and selling of sacred humanity; the sundering of every fibre that binds heart to heart, and the dehumanization and butchery of peaceful and patriotic citizens within the territories over which they extend.
— from Discussion on American Slavery by Robert J. (Robert Jefferson) Breckinridge

The Secretaries of State had not awaited the declarations made by La Chaussée on May 24, 1673, before requesting the English Government to extradite the accused woman.
— from Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV by Frantz Funck-Brentano

In his fancy he heard anew the threat of revenge that was uttered against Rainsfield; and he began to entertain the belief that the blacks were at the station of Strawberry Hill, and had come there for the purpose of wreaking vengeance on their destroyer and his family at a time when they would imagine their visitation least expected.
— from Fern Vale; or, the Queensland Squatter. Volume 3 by Colin Munro

By pointing to the gliding moon on high. —When low-hung clouds each star of summer hide, And fireless are the valleys far and wide, Where the brook brawls along the public road Dark with bat-haunted ashes stretching broad, Oft has she taught them on her lap to lay The shining glow-worm; or, in heedless play, Toss it from hand to hand, disquieted; While others, not unseen, are free to shed Green unmolested light upon their mossy bed.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 (of 8) by William Wordsworth