Yet," said he, speaking of these and the other remunerations which were made him for his services, "these presents, rich as they are, do not elevate me.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Children seldom have any difficulty in understanding her; which suggests that her deliberate measured speech is like theirs, before they come to the adult trick of running all the words of a phrase into one movement of the breath.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Besides, I seemed to hold two lives—the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the latter might remain limited to daily bread, hourly work, and a roof of shelter.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Probably Plato notices this as the only remaining regular polyhedron, which from its approximation to a globe, and possibly because, as Plutarch remarks, it is composed of 12 x 30 = 360 scalene triangles (Platon.
— from Timaeus by Plato

We are compelled to admit to our readers that d’Artagnan thought nothing about him in any way; or that if he did think of him, it was only to say to himself that he was very well where he was, wherever it might be.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

If so be (which is seldom) that change of place will not effect this alteration, then other remedies are to be annexed, fair and foul means, as to persuade, promise, threaten, terrify, or to divert by some contrary passion, rumour, tales, news, or some witty invention to alter his affection,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

A belt of brushwood led up to a tangle of rocks—the whole plateau was strewn with boulders.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

Hearing not so much the words as the angry tone of Rostopchín’s voice, the crowd moaned and heaved forward, but again paused.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The laborious work, such as Montfaucon desired, must be promoted by princely or public munificence: but the great modern plan of Nolli (A.D. 1748) would furnish a solid and accurate basis for the ancient topography of Rome.]
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

By the terms of the agreement, the only relations he could have with the outer world were by a little window made purposely for that object.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

There was thus a touch of rhetoric in Lowell's saying that they spoke the English of Shakespeare; as well argue that the London grocers of 1885 spoke the English of Pater.
— from The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

To Northern Republicans it was unreasonable that the conquered South should be rewarded instead of punished, and that any theory of reconstruction should risk bringing into power the party that Union men, headed by Lincoln, had defeated in 1864.
— from The New Nation by Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson

"It began long ago when they'd first mapped out the big military manoeuvring grounds—we call 'em Areas for short—where the I. G. spend two-thirds of their time and the other regiments get their training.
— from Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling

where is old Tom, and the old ramping hen?" inquired Browne.
— from Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities by Robert Smith Surtees

"Are you sure those are the only reasons?"
— from The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

He said to himself that if she had assented cordially to the conditions of Fulkerson's offer, he would have had the courage to take all the other risks himself, and would have had the satisfaction of resigning his place.
— from A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete by William Dean Howells

Traverse, as the only representative of the host, remained for a short time with his uncourteous guest, who, totally regardless of his presence, threw himself into an armchair, lighted a cigar, took up a book and smoked and read.
— from Hidden Hand by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

The bedeguar, accordingly, when fully formed, has some resemblance, at a little distance, to a tuft of reddish-brown hair or moss stuck upon the branch.
— from Insect Architecture by James Rennie

They are the only really strong men detectable among the Bolsheviki or anywhere else in Russia.
— from The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto