If I do, or if I even open this again, it will be to deal with different people and different themes; for here at the end, where the romance of my life is told, ere I go back to take up the thread of my life-work, I say sadly and without hope, “ FINIS. ”
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

the Elk is gorn to the mountains as the hunters Suppose.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

A Mother slew her babes in days of yore, One, only one, from dawn to eventide, Ino, god-maddened, whom the Queen of Heaven Set frenzied, flying to the dark: and she Cast her for sorrow to the wide salt sea, Forth from those rooms of murder unforgiven, Wild-footed from a white crag of the shore, And clasping still her children twain, she died.
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

Perceiving I had not from any quarter the least justice to expect, I gave up the affair; and the directors of the opera, without either answering or listening to my reasons, have continued to dispose as of their own property, and to turn to their profit, the Devin du Village, which incontestably belongs to nobody but myself.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He then placed the cavalry on either wing, numbering four thousand, and advanced against the enemy in gallant style, in regular order, and at a deliberate pace.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

The Kimberley crater is roomy enough to admit the Roman Coliseum; the bottom of the crater has not been reached, and no one can tell how far down in the bowels of the earth it goes.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Even when the general receives from his spies information of movements, he still knows nothing of those which may since have taken place, nor of what the enemy is going finally to attempt.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

The European tour ended in Greece, where we viewed the Athenian temples, and saw the prison in which the gentle Socrates 39-6 had drunk his death potion.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Madame herself, who evidently rather wished to undertake the examination in geography—her favourite study, which she taught well—was forced to succumb, and be subordinate to her despotic kinsman's direction.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Kamias , Kalamias , Tag.; Kilingiwa , Vis.; Pias , Iloc. Uses .—The small fruit of the camia springing from the branches and trunks of the trees is widely known in the Philippines, where they eat it green, pickled, and in salad; and when ripe fresh and preserved.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

“Take everything in good-humour.
— from Midnight Jack, or The road-agent by T. C. (Thomas Chalmers) Harbaugh

On sitting down in meeting this evening I got into a state of unwatchfulness, which continued so long as to deprive me of the refreshment my poor mind so often stands in need of.
— from Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by John Yeardley

[3] This spot is little known to the English in general, and to many who have travelled over the world; but as no such delightful place exists anywhere but in England, how can it possibly interest an Englishman?
— from Soyer's Culinary Campaign: Being Historical Reminiscences of the Late War. With The Plain Art of Cookery for Military and Civil Institutions by Alexis Soyer

By degrees the bright lustre of the sun was softened with tints, first of red, and then light transparent crimson, changing through different hues, [Pg 216] until the sky assumed a deep pure blue, which merged towards the east into glowing violet.
— from The King Country; or, Explorations in New Zealand A Narrative of 600 Miles of Travel Through Maoriland. by J. H. (James Henry) Kerry-Nicholls

The Earl is generally regarded as the scapegoat who bore the sins of Byland Battle to the block.
— from Yorkshire Battles by Edward Lamplough

Bell’s Life is one mass of advertisements of various sports; the Era is great upon all theatricals; the Athenæum gathers to itself a large proportion of book advertisements.
— from Curiosities of Civilization by Andrew Wynter

“I lost the wish to eat; I grew shadow-thin.
— from The Lonesome Trail by John G. Neihardt

More than any thing else, it gave the backwoodsmen their code of right and wrong.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt

No doubt it is only in certain circumstances that these drops are attracted together so as to form large drops, which fall to the earth in genial showers to refresh the thirsty soil, or in a terrible deluge to cause great destruction.
— from Meteorology; or, Weather Explained by J. G. (John Gordon) M'Pherson

Even if those fellows get the Eulalie into good position they will see nothing finer than this.
— from Thelma by Marie Corelli