And it is very reasonable that we should distinguish by some term two things so distinct in nature, as a pleasure that is such simply, and without any relation, from that pleasure which cannot exist without a relation, and that, too, a relation to pain.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

She spoke, and rose into the sky on poised wings, and flashed under the clouds in a long flying bow.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

So sullen and so low, so much resignation, so much refusal and so much place for a lower and an upper, so much and yet more silence, why is not sleeping a feat why is it not and when is there some discharge when.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

She realized that if she said a word about his not going to the battle (she knew he enjoyed the thought of the impending engagement) he would say something about men, honor, and the fatherland—something senseless, masculine, and obstinate which there would be no contradicting, and her plans would be spoiled; and so, hoping to arrange to leave before then and take Pétya with her as their protector and defender, she did not answer him, but after dinner called the count aside and implored him with tears to take her away quickly, that very night if possible.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In the case of Osiris of Egypt, Mr. Southwell says, "As his birth had been attended by an eclipse of the sun, so his death was attended by a still greater darkness of the solar orb."
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

He had never seen such a dog before.
— from White Fang by Jack London

Echo organ , of stops of small scale and very soft tone, enclosed in a "swell-box."
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

There was something strangely alive in them, as though they were created in a stage of the earth's dark history when things were not irrevocably fixed to their forms.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

The papers said something about it, did they not?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Then they searched for the others, found them all assembled in seven ships, and fought with them; but his father Halkel not coming to his assistance as he had promised, many good bondes were killed, and Jon himself was wounded.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The young ladies were all looking at me; some of them had put on their eye-glasses; others stared at me as if I were some strange animal from a menagerie.
— from The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill

—Did you often wish to stop somewhere, and feel hearts beating about you, and see the faces of gods and dancing-girls?
— from The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1 by Elizabeth Bisland

All-important to the general safety as was the speedy replenishment of the magazines of that army which lay encamped in front of the enemy, the committee of Elizabethtown was under the necessity of transmitting this powder secretly, lest the people of the neighbourhood should seize and detain it for their own security.
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

Charley walked so slowly and wearily that she could not wait for his coming, but went forth to meet him.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Then, dropping her eyes, and with the slightest inclination of her head, not looking at me at all, she started across the trampled grass.
— from The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

"I mean to find some way of escape—or you shall find one," he had said, speaking as it seemed words that he remembered had come out of the black night through which he had passed to this hour.
— from Jimmy Quixote: A Novel by Tom Gallon

I knew that Starth had been shot so as to inculpate you, and that you would be arrested.
— from The Scarlet Bat: A Detective Story by Fergus Hume

He asked me if he might be allowed to feed the chickens, she said, and I would have let him if Matred's window did not overlook the yard.
— from The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story by George Moore

"Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them: If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
— from Notes on the book of Exodus by Charles Henry Mackintosh