If I may ne’er behold again That form and face so dear to me, Nor hear thy voice, still would I fain Preserve, for aye, their memory.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The result at which I arrived was as startling as it could possibly be—even for one like myself who was already at home in many a strange world: I found that all prevailing values—that is to say, all those which had gained ascendancy over humanity, or at least over its tamer portions, could be traced back to the judgment of exhausted people.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It was in the early spring, when the crocus and the snowdrop were in full bloom.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

What I know is, that, like a fool, a greater fool than he of whom I spoke just now, I mistook for this peasant girl a young bandit of fifteen or sixteen, with a beardless chin and slim waist, and who, just as I was about to imprint a chaste salute on his lips, placed a pistol to my head, and, aided by seven or eight others, led, or rather dragged me, to the Catacombs of St. Sebastian, where I found a highly educated brigand chief perusing Cæsar’s Commentaries , and who deigned to leave off reading to inform me,
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I even said so to John one moonlight evening, but he said what I felt was a draught , and shut the window.
— from The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The shadow was, in fact, very well dressed, and this made a man of him.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The greater the height from which a stone is cast, the greater the impression on the spot where it falls.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

‘I recollect her now!’ cried I, recalling one of the two girls I had seen when I first went there.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

He gave me his brush, I mean his scalp-lock, afterward, [58] and it now adorns—" Here her amusement became ungovernable, and she went into fits of laughter, which Imogen's astonished look only served to increase.
— from In the High Valley Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series by Susan Coolidge

From the line of assembly the ground subsided gently to a shallow depression running across the direction of advance, beyond which, at a distance of some 1000 yards from the crest on the La Brique side, the hill swelled to a second skyline which impeded further view.
— from The War History of the 4th Battalion, the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1914-1919 by F. Clive Grimwade

“Son,” said Fabius Waite, his words vibrant with pride, “I can’t say what I feel....
— from The Highflyers by Clarence Budington Kelland

Was it you who were present to me in the spirit when I flung myself with fevered longing down in the grass, or on a grave, and believed that some response must come to my soul's cry, either from above, or from the abyss below!
— from The Hour Will Come: A Tale of an Alpine Cloister. Volumes I and II by Wilhelmine von Hillern

It is not won yet, but we have reached the place where we know how to win it, and if we continue our exertions we shall win it fully, completely, grandly, as becomes a great people contending for the cause of righteousness.
— from Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. A Collection of Speeches and Messages by Calvin Coolidge

They may also be almost entirely avoided by selecting that solution which is found to favour them in the least degree (728.); and still further by collecting the hydrogen only, and using that as the indicating gas; for being much less soluble than oxygen, being evolved with twice the rapidity and in larger bubbles (717.), it can be collected more perfectly and in greater purity.
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

Your brother uttered some very cutting remarks on the general inaptitude of the female sex when I first made his acquaintance; so, for the honour of the thing, I must follow the path I have begun to tread.
— from A Romance of Two Worlds: A Novel by Marie Corelli

Watts, after showing that on his own confession Spencer was indebted for his facts to Huxley and Hooker, who," &c., &c. Wishing in this, as in other cases, to acknowledge indebtedness when conscious of it, I introduced the words referred to, in recognition of the fact that I had repeatedly questioned the distinguished specialists named, on matters beyond my knowledge, which were not dealt with in the books at my command.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

And just as Christ in His Ascension was taken from them whilst His hands were lifted up in the act of blessing, so it is fitting that the revelation of which He is the centre and the theme should part from us as He did, shedding with its final words the dew of benediction on our upturned heads.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

But I say not things are so; I only say what I fear.
— from A Clerk of Oxford, and His Adventures in the Barons' War by Evelyn Everett-Green