He had asserted from the beginning that the administration was hostile to him; that it had failed in its promises of men and war material; that the President himself had shown duplicity if not treachery in the endeavor to procure the appointment of Benton: and the administration now gave open evidence of its enmity.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

They stay in [Pg 101] their black towers and never go out except in groups.
— from Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison

And indeed so it was, being narrow and grassy and shady with trees, save that these were such trees as never grew on English soil.
— from Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol

"There," she tells us, "alone all the afternoon, never going out except in the evening for a breath of air, working at night as well, to the song of the tame nightingales that people all Venetian balconies, I wrote André , Jacques , Mattea , and the first Lettres d'un Voyageur ."
— from Famous Women: George Sand by Bertha Thomas

Prefers to wallow there and not get out, Except they all can!
— from Songs of the Army of the Night by Francis William Lauderdale Adams

Brute animals have a better perception of what is suitable to their nature; they are not liable to deception in the choice of their food; they are not guilty of excess in their pleasures; and guided solely by a sense of their present wants, they satisfy these without seeking new modes of gratification.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 05 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

"We should bump our heads dreadfully if we lost them, and never get out, either."
— from Wenonah's Stories for Children by Warren Proctor

But amidst all his thinking his heart came back to this: "When I meet her, she will tell me of it all; I need be no wiser than to learn how to meet her and to make her love me; then shall she show me the way to the Well at the World's End, and I shall drink thereof and never grow old, even as she endureth in youth, and she shall love me for ever, and I her for ever.
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

The road from Mourghab to Kawamabad is wild and picturesque, leading through a narrow gorge, on either side of which are precipitous cliffs of rock and forest, three or four hundred feet high.
— from A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán by Harry De Windt

There are no Gods on earth to give him aid; Hemm’d round, he is overpower’d, beat down, and bound,
— from The Curse of Kehama, Volume 2 (of 2) by Robert Southey