He learned then a lesson that stood by him better than any university teaching ever did--the meaning of a November gale on the mid-Atlantic--which, for mere physical misery, passed endurance.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

O strange and hidden power of sympathy, 280 That of—like fates, though all unknown to each, Dost make blind instincts, orphan's heart to orphan's Drawing by dim disquiet!
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The bank had also a way of guaranteeing the individual contracts of Mr. Biddle for millions; of which the report gives this account: "Upon the eighteenth day of August, 1838, the bank guaranteed a contract made by Mr. Nicholas Biddle in his individual capacity, for the purchase of two thousand five hundred bonds of the State of Mississippi, of two thousand dollars each, amounting in the whole to 5,000,000 dollars.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

Above all, they are under the enormous disadvantage of being right without knowing it.
— from Eugenics and Other Evils by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

25. 225 Page 228-231, and p. 255. 226 “Whatsoever time of Messiah’s appearing Almighty God pointed out by Daniel’s LXX Weeks, yet I believe not that any Jew before the event, could infallibly design the time without some latitude; because they could not know infallibly where to pitch the head of their accounts, until the event discovered it: yet in some latitude they might.”
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 5 (of 8) by Richard Hurd

But before doing so she was able to assure us that "'E done it in drink."
— from Sixpenny Pieces by A. Neil (Albert Neil) Lyons

But the use of figures is natural, and at present they are used to embellish discourse and to give it greater vividness and force.
— from Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter

There they arrived upon the eleventh day.
— from Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende: A Tale of the Times of King Arthur by Mary-Lafon, Jean Bernard Lafon, called

In point of fact, this latter will not be fully known to any until "the eighth day"—the day of resurrection-glory, when we shall know even as we are known.
— from Notes on the Book of Leviticus by Charles Henry Mackintosh