"Now not unavenged shall I go to the Elysian regions, not unchastising to the stern ghosts.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

From out the Christall palace of her breast, The clearer soule was call'd to endlesse rest, (Not by the thundering voyce, wherewith God threats, 10
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

out by a person claim-ing to have been an eyewitness of the events reported, nor until every incident and act of the noble-minded Nazarene had had ample time to become enormously magnified and distorted by rumor, fable, and fiction; so that it was impossible to discriminate or separate the real from the unreal, the true from the false, in his partly-forgotten life.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

For the most part, the production has always been confined to southern India in the elevated region near the southwestern coast.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Now that she had done so the burden of the entertainment rested naturally on his wit.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Conybeare’s (Dean) Essay on Church Parties, reprinted from the Edinburgh Review , No. CC., October, 1853, 12mo.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

From here to eternal rest: No further step—no, no!
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The earliest record notice of the hospital which I have observed is in 1494, when William Steward, prebendary of Killern and rector of Glassfurd, endowed a chaplain to serve in the chapel of St. Ninian, which he had lately built, “ ad Hospitale Leprosorum degentium prope Pontem Glasguensem .”
— from Archæological Essays, Vol. 2 by James Young Simpson

Something of this fault the English reader notes in Mr. Kinglake's "Eöthen."
— from Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

I am not real sure about that even right now.
— from Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Some twenty years ago it was not unusual in the south of Ireland to see boys assembled about a fire of straw, loudly exulting over a flame-surrounded victim, whose attempts to escape, rendered nugatory by a timid retraction as it were into himself, served but to call forth louder shouts of triumph from his persecutors, who thought they justified their savage deed by proclaiming its hapless object as a witch, a robber of orchards, and a sucker of cows.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 21, November 21, 1840 by Various

He believed all things were in flux, and summed up his conclusions in the proposition that “man is the measure of all things, both of that which exists and that which does not exist.” Grote, who defends the Sophists, says his philosophy “had the merit of bringing into forcible relief the essentially relative nature of cognition.”
— from A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler

On October 20, the expedition reached Nanga Tiga, the old position in 1858, and there once more the boats were left, a stockade erected, and the 6-pounder mounted in it.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde

Let us, instead of visiting the sins of a few townships upon the heads of the entire Russian nation, be thankful that we have no such problems in our own islands.
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson

Meanwhile Jack Carleton and Hay-uta did not stir for several minutes, but, as they listened, it seemed to the youth that their enemies required not to come very nigh, in order to locate them by the tumultuous throbbing of his heart.
— from Footprints in the Forest by Edward Sylvester Ellis

It will thus be seen in the distracted condition of affairs that Spain was practically defenceless against a sudden descent on the coast, but most { 31} defenceless of all at the extremely remote north-west corner of Spain, where Drake decided to land.
— from The Year after the Armada, and Other Historical Studies by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume