From this point the exploring party proper was to start out.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

The English People , p. 188.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

Historians prove its justification and reason; travels, exoticism, psychology, penal codes, the lunatic asylum, the criminal, sociology.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A prevalent feature in these compositions was a nursed and petted melancholy; another was a wasteful and opulent gush of “fine language”; another was a tendency to lug in by the ears particularly prized words and phrases until they were worn entirely out; and a peculiarity that conspicuously marked and marred them was the inveterate and intolerable sermon that wagged its crippled tail at the end of each and every one of them.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

How long in his damp trance young Juan lay He knew not, for the earth was gone for him, And Time had nothing more of night nor day For his congealing blood, and senses dim; And how this heavy faintness pass'd away He knew not, till each painful pulse and limb, And tingling vein, seem'd throbbing back to life, For Death, though vanquish'd, still retired with strife.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, its own game, and there is as much difference betwixt us and ourselves as betwixt us and others: “Magnam rem puta, unum hominem agere.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Ītaliā prohibētur: nōn tū eum patriā prīvāre, quā caret, sed vītā vīs , Lig.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Her dinner was just right, and I am sure she took every possible pains to have it so."
— from With the Procession by Henry Blake Fuller

Dr. Watts, of Manchester, speaking from long experience, tells us in his "Facts of the Cotton Famine" (p. 44) that "men often care more about being employed in a good mill ( i.e. , a mill with plenty of room, air, and light) than about the exact price per pound for spinning, or per piece for weaving, for they know practically what is the effect of these conditions upon the weekly wages."
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

Why not let the evening pass pleasantly?
— from When Dreams Come True by Ritter Brown

There were those in the world I could still remember with that exquisitely painful pleasure that is the secret of true love.
— from Summer Cruising in the South Seas by Charles Warren Stoddard

I have mentioned that certain Powers have had their forces drastically reduced, and that has brought with it a drastic reduction of expenditure, but I have before me the naval, military, and air force estimates of the eight principal Powers in Europe, leaving out Germany, Austria, and Bulgaria, whose forces have been compulsorily reduced.
— from Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 by Various

—Between the two ecclesiastical powers, Pagan Rome and Papal Rome.
— from Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery by C. T. (Charles Taze) Russell

The evening passed pleasantly.
— from The Curlytops and Their Pets; Or, Uncle Toby's Strange Collection by Howard Roger Garis