“No, he is far handsomer than old Blackbird ever was.”
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

“I will win them over by entreaties.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

Then the truth, with regard to Olaf, became evident to many.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

And this constitutes the opposition between Epicureanism* and Platonism.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

As noun, means result ; as verb, means t o bring Effect.
— from The Elements of Style by William Strunk

When driven into exile, as he was along with the Visconti, he improved the occasion by entering into close relations with the leading Guelfs of Tuscany, and in 1278 a free return for him to Pisa was made by them a condition of peace with that city.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

To the former, divine things are inward values, projected by chance into images furnished by poetic tradition or by external nature, while to the latter, divine things are in the first instance objective factors of nature or of social tradition, although they have come, perhaps, to possess some point of contact with the interests of the inner life on account of the supposed physical influence which those super-human entities have over human fortunes.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

This person's suspicions, therefore, I have had to oppose, by endeavouring to appear indifferent where I have been most deeply interested;—and it has not been only once;—I have had her hopes and exultation to listen to again and again.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

In listening to barcaroles, I found I had not yet known what singing was, and I soon became so fond of the opera that, tired of babbling, eating, and playing in the boxes when I wished to listen, I frequently withdrew from the company to another part of the theater.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

George was familiar with the generous gifts and deeds of the Pratts of Baltimore, and of Brooklyn, of Carnegie, of Lorillard & Co., of Warner Brothers of Connecticut, and of the Messrs. Tangye of Birmingham, England.
— from The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton

Although these MS. treatises do not go farther back than the twelfth century, assuming that to be the date of the one by Eraclius, yet there is reason to suppose that the earliest treatises are compilations of the recipes, the secreti , of still earlier ages.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 402, April, 1849 by Various

Upon the other Benedictine estates there are resident monks.
— from Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster

37 and 38 illustrate Seltsam’s apparatus as improved by Th. Richter, whereby the operation becomes entirely free from danger, the vaporization of the solvent being effected by steam only, and the work is carried on continuously.
— from Glue, Gelatine, Animal Charcoal, Phosphorous, Cements, Pastes and Mucilages by F. (Ferdinand) Dawidowsky

Bleeding within a few hours after the operation, before excited action of the vessels has commenced, is easily arrested by exposure of the surface, removal of all clots, for by these hemorrhage is encouraged, and by including the open vessels in ligatures.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

Every scrap of work turned out by every firm or factory is done to gauge, and
— from Doing Their Bit: War Work at Home by Boyd Cable

“Yes, yes,” cried the old butler, excitedly.
— from The Dark House: A Knot Unravelled by George Manville Fenn

nothing; only that our bright-eyed Edward thought he saw him cross the road at the ravine down yonder; but I think it must have been a dog, or something of the kind.
— from Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 1 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Mrs. Lanaghan

But hereupon the higher clergy declared themselves hostile, not only to their opinion, but even to the bare project of a conference.
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke