My eyes have not deceived me, nor my ears, With this transfiguration, nor the strain Of royal welcome that arose and blew, Breathed from no lying lips, along with it.
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

It not only embodies the judgment of all men in thought and action but has its warrant from all the science we can apply to it.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

After a league and a half more, passed in darkness, the travellers arrived at Beaujeu, and drove up to the only inn the place afforded; which, though superior to any they had seen since they entered the mountains, was bad enough.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

" "I think they would," came from under the hat, in a grim tone, quite as touching as a broken one.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

An’t it beautiful?” Tom, whose great heavy mouth had stood ajar during this communication, now suddenly snapped it together, as a big dog closes on a piece of meat, and seemed to be digesting the idea at his leisure.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

David Baridona being apprehended at Villaro, was carried to La Torre, where, refusing to renounce his religion, he was tormented by means of brimstone matches being tied between his fingers and toes, and set fire to; and afterward, by having his flesh plucked off with red-hot pincers, till he expired; and Giovanni Barolina, with his wife, were thrown into a pool of stagnant water, and compelled, by means of pitchforks and stones, to duck down their heads till they were suffocated.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Not more than I am believe me—to pity without the Power to relieve is still more painful than to ask and be denied—— SIR OLIVER.
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

He admits, therefore, that the demons are contaminated; and it follows that they cannot cleanse those by whom they are themselves contaminated, and thus all alike become impure, the demons by associating with men, and men by worshipping the demons.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

These efficiencies, of course, are less than the efficiencies of the arc alone, because the losses in the mechanism, globes, etc., are included.
— from Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh

Their more powerful motive was that fierce fanatical hatred of the king, the natural fruit of long civil dissension, inflamed by preachers more dark and sanguinary than those they addressed, and by a perverted study of the Jewish scriptures.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 2 of 3 by Henry Hallam

Thus was the matter viewed by her ladyship, who now looked forward with happy anticipation to the approaching and brilliant pageantry.
— from Lady Rosamond's Secret: A Romance of Fredericton by Rebecca Agatha Armour

The marauder came; the Arab repaired to the guard of the imperial tent, and gave the word; the guard apprised the emperor, as he was directed, who personally repaired to the tent of the Arab, and, being convinced of the fact, ran the man through with his lance; this was done without a light.
— from An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Shabeeny, Abd Salam, active 1820

The analogy admitted between ammonium and metals is probable, owing to the fact that mercury is able to form an amalgam with ammonium similar to that which it forms with sodium or many other metals.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Joel was attired in a pair of bathing trunks and a bath towel, the latter festooned gracefully about his body, low enough to show his projecting ribs.
— from Other People's Business: The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale by Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith

Such study produced results which, even if not of immediate value to me, were nevertheless passed on to the Army, and by them broadly promulgated, in daily summaries, for the benefit of all our other Corps.
— from The Australian Victories in France in 1918 by Monash, John, Sir

What of my waiting on the ridge that afternoon, and bearing more or less away from the proper direction at night, I did not reach the post till noon; and I was a bit puzzled to find only the men who were on duty there.
— from Raw Gold: A Novel by Bertrand W. Sinclair

As this letter came to hand about six weeks before Susannah’s accident, Le Fever was hourly expected; and was uppermost in my uncle Toby’s mind all the time my father was giving him and Yorick a description of what kind of a person he would chuse for a preceptor to me: but as my uncle Toby thought my father at first somewhat fanciful in the accomplishments he required, he forebore mentioning Le Fever’s name,——till the character, by Yorick’s interposition, ending unexpectedly, in one, who should be gentle-tempered, and generous, and good, it impressed the image of Le Fever , and his interest, upon my uncle Toby so forcibly, he rose instantly off his chair; and laying down his pipe, in order to take hold of both my father’s hands——I beg, brother Shandy , said my uncle Toby , I may recommend poor Le Fever’s son to you——I beseech you do, added Yorick ——He 318 has a good heart, said my uncle Toby ——And a brave one too, an’ please your honour, said the corporal.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne