That and the interior line are both intact.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Like a forest which had no roots ; which had all turned into leaves and boughs;—which must soon wither and be no forest.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

"I am rather absent in mind, and amused myself a few days ago by tying a piece of ribbon around my arm so tightly, that it left a bruise when I removed it.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

supposeth all four affected, heart, liver, brain, blood; but the major part concur upon the brain, [4760] 'tis imaginatio laesa ; and both imagination and reason are misaffected;, because of his corrupt judgment, and continual meditation of that which he desires, he may truly be said to be melancholy.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In short, this wretched divinity of the Romans was looked upon by others as the soul of the world: the first principle, which brought all things into light, and being.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

(*16) “In respect to the insinuations levelled at Beauvais, you will be willing to dismiss them in a breath.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

I instantly formed a plan of meeting them in London, and, by revealing the whole dreadful story, convincing this irritated parent that he had nothing more to apprehend from his daughter’s unfortunate choice.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

There is no doubt about it; primarily against the "ower," in whom the bad conscience now establishes itself, eats, extends, and grows [Pg 111] like a polypus throughout its length and breadth, all with such virulence, that at last, with the impossibility of paying the debt, there becomes conceived the idea of the impossibility of paying the penalty, the thought of its inexpiability (the idea of "eternal punishment")—finally, too, it turns against the "creditor," whether found in the causa prima of man, the origin of the human race, its sire, who henceforth becomes burdened with a curse ("Adam," "original sin," "determination of the will"), or in Nature from whose womb man springs, and on whom the responsibility for the principle of evil is now cast ("Diabolisation of Nature"), or in existence generally, on this logic an absolute white elephant , with which mankind is landed (the Nihilistic flight from life, the demand for Nothingness, or for the opposite of existence, for some other existence, Buddhism and the like)—till suddenly we stand before that paradoxical and awful expedient, through which a tortured humanity has found a temporary alleviation, that stroke of genius called Christianity:—God personally immolating himself for the debt of man, God paying himself personally out of a pound of his own flesh, God as the one being who can deliver man from what man had become unable to deliver himself—the creditor playing scapegoat for his debtor, from love (can you believe it?), from love of his debtor!...
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I soon felt myself in a state of constant exhilaration: favourite passages were greeted with acclamation by the singers at every rehearsal, and a concerted number of the third finale, which unfortunately had afterwards to be omitted owing to its length, actually became on that occasion a source of profit to me.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one, May hope to achieve it before life be done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows, A harvest of barren regrets.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The incessant lightning, accompanied by distant thunder, gleamed from all quarters of the horizon, and darted its luminous flashes over the whole extent of the plain.
— from Samuel Brohl and Company by Victor Cherbuliez

This is my firm belief; and I am confident that with the increase of produce there must come, and come naturally too, a corresponding decrease of price; and it is to that consequence that I look as being the solution of all the difficulties which at present attend this question.
— from Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century by Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of

I was like a poodle-dog that is led about by a blue ribbon, and scoured and combed and fed on slops.
— from Eugene Pickering by Henry James

She took it like a bird, and straight across the course she flew on a dead line for the home green.
— from The Flyers by George Barr McCutcheon

It is not for a moment to be implied that all hard toilers in life are bound to follow precisely here the example of A. L. O. E. Circumstances differ in different cases.
— from A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker by Agnes Giberne

The town is low and built on a salt, moist soil.
— from A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809 In Which is Included, Some Account of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart. K. C. to the Court of Persia by James Justinian Morier

It has large pointed ears and the tail is long and bushy.
— from A Natural History for Young People: Our Animal Friends in Their Native Homes including mammals, birds and fishes by Phebe Westcott Humphreys

The LANDLORD of the inn leads AGATHA by the hand out of his house.
— from Lover's Vows by August von Kotzebue