Who would have imagined that there was still such a uniformly powerful effusion of the simplest political sentiments, the most natural domestic [Pg 158] instincts and the primitive manly delight in strife in this very people after it had been shaken to its foundations for several generations by the most violent convulsions of the Dionysian demon?
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“As for the tobacco—hm—it comes from farther off than my friend Skoluba thinks; it comes from Jasna Gora, the Bright Mountain; the Paulist Brethren prepare such tobacco in the city of Czenstochowa, 76 where stands the image, famed for so many miracles, of Our Lady the Virgin, Queen of the Crown of Poland: she is likewise still called Duchess of Lithuania!
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

Genius may have been corrupted, not by a world-wide peace, but by love of gain and pleasure, passions so strong that “I fear, for such men as we are it is better to serve than to be free.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

I must say that I felt fearfully small; but I was delighted at the frankness of those young American girls, and at once acceded to their request.
— from Her Royal Highness Woman by Max O'Rell

The bridge here was not in the place marked on the map, so that after crossing it we had some trouble in finding Fly Sæter, and might perhaps have perished miserably like the Babes in the wood, had we not opportunely 54 met a mediæval fisherman in a red night-cap, looking like one of the demons in ‘Rip van Winkle,’ who was going thither and conducted us.
— from Three in Norway, by Two of Them by Walter J. Clutterbuck

So that I feel fairly secure about my home and my belongings when I plan a fishing expedition or an excursion that takes me any distance away.”
— from A Little Bush Maid by Mary Grant Bruce

But when he re-reads what he has written, he sees that it fails, for some unknown reason, of the power of effect on which he had counted.
— from The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric by Sherwin Cody

And let me say That I for friendship’s sake will do as much Toward Lady Laura’s portion as the Countess.
— from Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 5 by Robert Bridges

The soul that is free from shams and is a pure part of nature itself, is attuned to the real and the true, and accepts the nature that is as the best, and would resolutely resist a change.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, April 1884, No. 7 by Chautauqua Institution

He would on no account have mentioned the fight, for, on second thoughts, it fell far short of his standards.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery by John Galsworthy