During the week of political agitation which terminated with the inglorious catastrophe of the Bedchamber plot, Sybil remained tranquil, and would have been scarcely conscious of what was disturbing so many right honourable hearts, had it not been for the incidental notice of their transactions by her father and his friends.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

And not-being is not one thing but, properly speaking, nothing? True.
— from The Republic by Plato

“Yes, and I say to you, if you are really strong, really superior, really pious, or impenetrable, which you were right in saying amounts to the same thing—then be proud, sir, for that is the characteristic of predominance.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

17th.—He arrived to-day, looking, as I thought, a little worn and anxious, but still talking and laughing like a man in the best possible spirits.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

If it may please thee, therefore, at this time to assist me, as my whole trust and confidence is in thee alone, I vow unto thee, that in all countries whatsoever wherein I shall have any power or authority, whether in this of Utopia or elsewhere, I will cause thy holy gospel to be purely, simply, and entirely preached, so that the abuses of a rabble of hypocrites and false prophets, who by human constitutions and depraved inventions have empoisoned all the world, shall be quite exterminated from about me.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

sagúran n cloth woven of fiber taken from the unopened leaf of the buri palm, similar [ 845 ] to raffia, used for curtains, blankets, and the like.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Jockey's taen the parting kiss, O'er the mountains he is gane, And with him is a' my bliss, Nought but griefs with me remain, Spare my Love, ye winds that blaw, Plashy sleets and beating rain!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

The bench planes, smoothing planes, rabbets, and plows universally resemble those shown in this illustration from the pattern book of the Castle Hill Works, Sheffield.
— from Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

However, I was obliged to be prudent so that those persons who spied into my actions might find nothing reprehensible.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Even when the air seems to be perfectly still its particles are moving about among each other.
— from Science for the School and Family, Part I. Natural Philosophy by Worthington Hooker

The tall bare pine stems rose up all round like columns in a temple roofed with the dark boughs and sky.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

When the flame of the burning paper scorched his fingers, he laid it carefully on the grass, where it was presently consumed.
— from The Girl Philippa by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

But if they can be picked at random from the berry patch—" So Kate went on her way laughing, lifting her white skirts high from the late August dust.
— from A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter

“They are certainly to be pitied,” said the mate; “for they have enemies in the water and out of it.
— from The South Sea Whaler by William Henry Giles Kingston

336 ; it must be shown that the bank is necessary to the operations of the government, that without its aid our fiscal concerns cannot be managed, 337 ; two things necessary to insure the stability of the government—avoid every measure that will produce uneasiness among the states or that will extend the jurisdiction of the government to subjects purely local, 337 ; has not the bank produced serious alarm?
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

"Oh, we'll go down and hear the band play," said Mrs. Bunker with exuberant spirits.
— from Her Lord and Master by Martha Morton