and she laying herself prone on the platform and showing only her head at the opening, said, weeping, 'Assuredly, Rinieri, if I gave thee an ill night, thou hast well avenged thyself of me, for that, albeit it is July, I have thought to freeze this night, naked as I am, more by token that I have so sore bewept both the trick I put upon thee and mine own folly in believing thee that it is a wonder I have any eyes left in my head.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Finding myself before St. Paul's, I went in; I mounted to the dome: I saw thence London, with its river, and its bridges, and its churches; I saw antique Westminster, and the green Temple Gardens, with sun upon them, and a glad, blue sky, of early spring above; and between them and it, not too dense, a cloud of haze.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Wert thou a scholar, thou wouldst do well to repeat certain orisons I would give thee; but, as thou art it not, thou must say three hundred Paternosters and as many Ave Marys, in honour of the Trinity, and looking upon heaven, still have in remembrance that God is the Creator of heaven and earth and the passion of Christ, abiding on such wise as He abode on the cross.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

" She continued to consider him thoughtfully, as if not to miss any shade of meaning in what he said, "Do you think, then, there is a limit?" "To being in love?
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

The remedy for the vices of the army is not to be found in the army itself, but in the country.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Now Nisus and his friend approach the guard, And beg admission, eager to be heard: Th’ affair important, not to be deferr’d.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

but because it is true, and is necessary to the completeness of the thought I have present.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

It is enough to record that as they took their leave they were all merry, and that afterwards Capitan Tiago said to Aunt Isabel: “Notify the restaurant that we’ll have a fiesta tomorrow.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

The water is studded with boats of all sorts, kinds, and descriptions; places in the coal-barges at the different wharfs are let to crowds of spectators, beer and tobacco flow freely about; men, women, and children wait for the start in breathless expectation; cutters of six and eight oars glide gently up and down, waiting to accompany their protégés during the race; bands of music add to the animation, if not to the harmony of the scene; groups of watermen are assembled at the different stairs, discussing the merits of the respective candidates; and the prize wherry, which is rowed slowly about by a pair of sculls, is an object of general interest.
— from Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People by Charles Dickens

that is to say, this logic, which is not the logic of thought, because it does not give truth, and is not the logic of the empirical sciences, because it does not depend upon representations.
— from Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept by Benedetto Croce

That I can travel quicker than the army is not to be believed.
— from Wang the Ninth: The Story of a Chinese Boy by B. L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale

Your inordinate appetite for applause made you varnish over the picture which the earl gave you of himself; though it must otherwise have been revolting to a virtuous mind: and your expectation of preferment so entirely lulled your moral feelings to sleep, that you could be a spectator of the picture you have drawn of the bishop, the day you dined with him, yet go the next morning to accept, if not to solicit, his patronage.
— from The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft

Near the place of meeting, coming in from the eastward, was then and is now, the Woburn road, the bordering walls of which sheltered plenty of American minute-men.
— from The Battle of April 19, 1775 in Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville and Charlestown, Massachusetts by Frank Warren Coburn

The air is none too warm.
— from Through Glacier Park: Seeing America First with Howard Eaton by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Stopford was not there, and is not the type; Hammersley is not that type either.
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Ian Hamilton

They certainly prove that the successful discovery of the age is not to point out what is right but what is wrong.
— from The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children by Maria Edgeworth

Thus Milton, "Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet." Mercury and Venus both revolve on their axes in nearly the same time with the earth.
— from Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers by Denison Olmsted