Mention any superlatives used for emphasis ( § 200 ).
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

The selves may be more than two, and the brain-systems severally used for each must be conceived as interpenetrating each other in very minute ways.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

He who cleaveth to created things will fall with their slipperiness; but he who embraceth Jesus will stand upright for ever. Love Him and hold Him for thy friend, for He will not forsake thee when all depart from thee, nor will he suffer thee to perish at the last.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

As the lotus flower grows out of the mud, so may purity and beauty spring up from even the vilest past if we but will it so.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Historical science in its endeavor to draw nearer to truth continually takes smaller and smaller units for examination.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I expect every hour the definitive sentence that must separate us for ever—I am sure you feel for me—I see you do—pardon these tears!”
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

But now sedition and civil war prevailed, not only over Judea, but in Italy also; for now Galba was slain in the midst of the Roman market-place; then was Otho made emperor, and fought against Vitellius, who set up for emperor also; for the legions in Germany had chosen him.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

The moment drew near when the coup d'état would storm us from every side, and when we should have to sustain the onslaught of an entire army.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

C H A P. II T HE abbess of Andoüillets, which if you look into the large set of provincial maps now publishing at Paris, you will find situated amongst the hills which divide Burgundy from Savoy, being in danger of an Anchylosis or stiff joint (the sinovia of her knee becoming hard by long matins), and having tried every remedy——first, prayers and thanksgiving; then invocations to all the saints in heaven promiscuously——then particularly to every saint who had ever had a stiff leg before her——then touching it with all the reliques of the convent, principally with the thigh-bone of the man of Lystra, who had been impotent from his youth——then wrap- 4 ping it up in her veil when she went to bed—then cross-wise her rosary—then bringing in to her aid the secular arm, and anointing it with oils and hot fat of animals——then treating it with emollient and resolving fomentations——then with poultices of marsh-mallows, mallows, bonus Henricus, white lillies and fenugreek—then taking the woods, I mean the smoak of ’em, holding her scapulary across her lap——then decoctions of wild chicory, water-cresses, chervil, sweet cecily and cochlearia——and nothing all this while answering, was prevailed on at last to try the hot-baths of Bourbon ——so having first obtained leave of the visitor-general to take care of her existence—she ordered all to be got ready for her journey: a novice of the convent of about seventeen, who had been troubled with a whitloe in her middle finger, by sticking it constantly into the abbess’s cast poultices, &c.—had gained such an interest, that overlooking a sciatical old nun, who might have 5 been set up for ever by the hot-baths of Bourbon, Margarita, the little novice, was elected as the companion of the journey.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

It was work that sent us from end to end of Great Britain and gave me my knowledge of the land.
— from Nights: Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Heber's full heart responded as follows: "O God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Jesus Christ wilt Thou bless her with peace and with a long life; and when Thou shalt see fit to take her, let Thy servant go with her; and dwell with each other throughout all eternity; that no power shall ever separate us from each other; for Thou, O God, knowest we love each other with pure hearts.
— from Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

Inspector Cameron has asked us to go south to meet a relief expedition, which is being sent up from Edmonton.
— from Dick Kent with the Malemute Mail by M. M. (Milo Milton) Oblinger

"We had better send up for Erlton," said another officer aside; but Kate caught the whisper.
— from On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the Mutiny by Flora Annie Webster Steel

We had just got to the eastward of the south cape as it became dark, and were about four miles from it when it fell calm, and soon after a very light air sprung up from east-north-east, which, with a large westerly swell, scarcely gave the ships steerage way: this situation gave me some anxiety, as I was uncertain whether the sternmost ships had seen Swilly, and they were at this time a little scattered; the breeze, however, favoured us, by freshening up at north-east, which enabled the whole of us to weather those rocks, without the apprehension of passing too near them in the dark: in the morning at day-light they bore west-south-west three leagues.
— from An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island by John Hunter

The words of some unknown foreign ecclesiastic discovered imbedded in the midst of this abominable nonsense, and transmitted through a brain capable of conceiving and throwing it into form, have been considered authority sufficient to cast a stigma over one of the most remarkable periods in English history, while the contemporary English Records, the actual reports of the judges on assize, which would have disposed effectually of Cardan and his bishop, have been left unstudied in their dust.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. III by James Anthony Froude

O First and Last, O glorious all in all, In vain my faltering human tongue would seek To shape the vesture of the boundless thought, Summing all causes in one burning word; Give me the spirit's living tongue of fire, Whose only voice is in an attitude Of keenest tension, bent back on itself With a strong upward force; even as thy bow Of bended colour stands against the north,
— from Robert Falconer by George MacDonald

She entered the city in a rich dress of green velvet, radiant with jewels, and passed two days there, the guest of Chiappino Vitelli, who spent 2000 scudi upon four entertainments in her honour, including a ball and masquerade.
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630 by James Dennistoun