She had heard a clock strike seven, then eight, now it was striking nine.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

The result of to-day, which haunts the mind and cannot be escaped will presently be abridged into a word, and the principle that seemed to explain nature will itself be included as one example of a bolder generalization.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Danger and trouble—of the imminent kind, not the everyday sort that excites neither interest nor commiseration—run even this common clay into heroic moulds on occasion; occasions that help us to remember that the gap that separates the man with the patched coat from his wealthy neighbor is, after all, perhaps but a tenement.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

For the whole subject see Thompson, E. N. S., The Controversy between the Puritans and the Stage , New York, 1903.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

So you see he would have been a very profound old man, indeed, to suspect that every night, just at twelve, I looked in upon him while he slept.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Sed omnium una regula est, quam tibi cupio esse notissimam, aut illud, quod utile videtur, turpe ne sit aut, si turpe est, ne videatur esse utile.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

To whom in brief thus Abdiel stern repli’d. Apostat, still thou errst, nor end wilt find Of erring, from the path of truth remote: Unjustly thou deprav’st it with the name Of Servitude to serve whom God ordains, Or Nature; God and Nature bid the same, When he who rules is worthiest, and excells Them whom he governs.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

You gave me something to eat, now tell me what ails you.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Yo pienso sacar todos esos nombres de la injusta obscuridad y olvido en que yacen.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

I saw the Egyptian newspaper account.'
— from The Pomp of Yesterday by Joseph Hocking

The verdict was death from sudden failure of the heart's action, due probably to some shock, the exact nature of which was unknown.
— from Katharine Frensham: A Novel by Beatrice Harraden

This is mentioned by Tyrtaeus in the following verses: "They heard the god, and brought from Delphi home, Apollo's oracle, which thus did say: That over all within fair Sparta's realm The royal chiefs in council should bear sway, The elders next to them, the people last; If they the holy rhetra would obey." VII.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

They were not so sure of the avenue through which the poet saw the Emperor Napoleon come riding on his small white horse when he took possession of the Elector's dominions.
— from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3 by William Dean Howells

Strange, after all the mystic developments of the middle age, was the effort to see the Eucharist, not as the pale Host of the altar, but as one taking leave of his friends.
— from The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry by Walter Pater

" "Woe is me," said the elder, "now I must die."
— from Myths of the Iroquois. (1883 N 02 / 1880-1881 (pages 47-116)) by Erminnie A. (Erminnie Adele) Smith

If it slackens, the Emperor, no doubt, could turn to wise account that favourable pause in the fever.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

When ten o’clock came they decided to wait no longer, and started for Savannah, with the result that they spent the entire night in the rain, in an open boat, and then had passed but half way up the river!
— from The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740 by Adelaide L. (Adelaide Lisetta) Fries