At first sight there appears to be a similar inversion in the last step of the Platonic succession; for tyranny, instead of being the natural end of democracy, in early Greek history appears rather as a stage leading to democracy; the reign of Peisistratus and his sons is an episode which comes between the legislation of Solon and the constitution of Cleisthenes; and some secret cause common to them all seems to have led the greater part of Hellas at her first appearance in the dawn of history, e.g. Athens, Argos, Corinth, Sicyon, and nearly every State with the exception of Sparta, through a similar stage of tyranny which ended either in oligarchy or democracy.
— from The Republic by Plato

I shall send Charley for the letter."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Since she could never, in a velvet gown with short sleeves, striking with her light fingers the ivory keys of an Erard at a concert, feel the murmur of ecstasy envelop her like a breeze, it was not worth while boring herself with practicing.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The loneliness and emptiness of those short streets (consisting, almost entirely, of low-roofed houses, self-contained but not detached, their monotony interrupted here and there by the dark intrusion of some sinister little shop, at once an historical document and a sordid survival from the days when the district was still one of ill repute), the snow which had lain on the garden-beds or clung to the branches of the trees, the careless disarray of the season, the assertion, in this man-made city, of a state of nature, had all combined to add an element of mystery to the warmth, the flowers, the luxury which he had found inside.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

It dries up the bones, saith Solomon, cap.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

To make a long story short, Canius gained his point.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

She still clung to the hope that she and Charlotte loved each other, heart and soul.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

But the notion of deploring, on moral grounds, the assured coming of a reform so salutary, calls for more strenuous reprobation.
— from A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist by T. Baron Russell

"I'll tell you what, Colonel Woodburn, I want Mr. March to see some chapters of that book of yours.
— from A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete by William Dean Howells

" A slight shudder crept over the body of the musketeer.
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas

There was, however, no record of their deaths, and upon that he based the hope that they were either in hospital, or had been, through some strange confusion, assigned among rebel wounded, a thing that had frequently happened in the hurry of transporting large numbers of wounded men.
— from The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

"Austin Gray is coming to New York," she said, coolly, buttering a cracker; "I have just had a telegram saying he will take a night train, and get in early in the morning—eight o'clock, I believe.
— from The Old Gray Homestead by Frances Parkinson Keyes