His high-born beauty is preserved to us for ever on the canvas of Vandyck, and as the Italians have named the artist ‘Il Pittore Cavalieresco,’ so will this subject of his skill remain for ever the ideal of Il Cavaliere Pittoresco.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The twice-born men their steps retrace From each sequestered bathing-place, And each his sacred gift has brought Of blossoms which his hands have sought.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The Lord shall reign forever, even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Parlements therefore shall return from exile: Plenary Court, Payment two-fifths in Paper have vanished; gone off in smoke, at the foot of Henri's Statue.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

He turned his head towards her and glanced at her black and (for some reason) flashing eyes, tried to smile, and then, apparently forgetting her in an instant, turned to the right once more, and continued to watch the startling apparition before him.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In geography there is still much to be desired; and a careful and undeviating use of the backboard, for four hours daily during the next three years, is recommended as necessary to the acquirement of that dignified DEPORTMENT AND CARRIAGE, so requisite for every young lady of FASHION.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Su razón fué elevada; su carácter recto y firme; sus intenciones intachables.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Then from the ashes of the former world shall bloom a paradise that shall remain for ever.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Traditionally, a new contract meant a Star rating for each of the crew that brought it in.
— from Star Surgeon by Alan Edward Nourse

Swift reports followed each other as rapidly as the tickings of a clock till Bowie's belt was empty.
— from The Lost Gold of the Montezumas: A Story of the Alamo by William O. Stoddard

But, as Aristotle says (De Causis), "God is before eternity and He is after eternity": for it is written that "the Lord shall reign for eternity, and beyond [*Douay: 'for ever and ever']" (Ex. 15:18).
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

I gave him a check, and made him sign receipts for everything.
— from The Flight of the Silver Ship: Around the World Aboard a Giant Dirgible by Hugh McAlister

But as sure as the turning tide must soon run full ebb; as sure as the declining sun must bring darkness, so sure is it, that though knowledge yet increases and invention marches on, and new states are being settled, and cities still expand, yet civilization has begun to 539 wane when, in proportion to population, we must build more and more prisons, more and more almshouses, more and more insane asylums.
— from Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth by Henry George

The Amîr’s fainting attack: the remedy: effect on the physician: the substituted remedy: further effect on the physician; the Amîr’s prescription.
— from At the Court of the Amîr: A Narrative by John Alfred Gray

Manchester: A. Ireland & Co. As a people, we are so used to policeman-like severity or snobbish ridicule from European criticism, that we hardly know what to make of the attentions of a Frenchman who is not an Inspector Javert, or of an Englishman who is not a Commercial Traveller.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

There is the pickled herring your father sent us, and the smoked reindeer from Erik's father in Lapland; and Grandmother Ekman sent us strawberry jam, and raspberry preserve, and cheese, and oh, so many goodies!"
— from Gerda in Sweden by Etta Blaisdell McDonald

The rite of pulling out hairs, which Howitt mentions in other tribes, seems to have the same reason for existence.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim