The old porter’s wife, too, at the lodge, who had been born and brought up in the family, and was a great gossip among the maid-servants, affirmed that in her young days she had often heard say that on Midsummer Eve, when it was well known all kinds of ghosts, goblins, and fairies become visible and walk abroad, the crusader used to mount his horse, come down from his picture, ride about the house, down the avenue, and so to the church to visit the tomb; on which occasion the church-door most civilly swung open of itself; not that he needed it, for he rode through closed gates, and even stone walls, and had been seen by one of the dairymaids to pass between two bars of the great park gate, making himself as thin as a sheet of paper.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

In short, in that one Athenian army as long as the sea-fight remained doubtful there was every sound to be heard at once, shrieks, cheers, "We win," "We lose," and all the other manifold exclamations that a great host would necessarily utter in great peril; and with the men in the fleet it was nearly the same; until at last the Syracusans and their allies, after the battle had lasted a long while, put the Athenians to flight, and with much shouting and cheering chased them in open rout to the shore.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

4512 A profound silence prevailed in the hall; and the attention of the guests was captivated by the vocal harmony, which revived and perpetuated the memory of their own exploits; a martial ardor flashed from the eyes of the warriors, who were impatient for battle; and the tears of the old men expressed their generous despair, that they could no longer partake the danger and glory of the field.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

4. Two or three of my English biographies have something of the same historical character.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

On returning to his Hotel, the relation given him of Antonia's death, and Lorenzo's behaviour on the occasion, made evident his mistake.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

This too is why, in a merely human world without a God, the appeal to our moral energy falls short of its maximal stimulating power.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

It touched me then to reflect, and it touches me now, more nearly, to remember (having what I have to tell) how they both thought of me, even at that engrossing time.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The odious Mahometan expresses himself charmed by her beauty.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The total amount of this imperfect calculation would rise to about one hundred and twenty millions of persons; a degree of population which possibly exceeds that of modern Europe, and forms the most numerous society that has ever been united under the same system of government.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The highest type of man and one other animal, the only mammal existing on Mars, alone have well-formed nails, and there are absolutely no hoofed animals in existence there.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Some, like the Wesleys, were university men; some, like Hutton, were middle-class tradesmen, of moderate education; some, like Bray, the brazier, were artizans; and all stood on the same footing, and discussed theology with the zeal of novices and the confidence of experts.
— from A History of the Moravian Church by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Hutton

Just a little token of my eternal regard for you.
— from Dorothy's Tour by Evelyn Raymond

I made the discovery that some of my Dayak friends were addicted to the horrible habit of eating clay, and actually found a regular little digging in the side of a hill where they worked to get these lumps of reddish grey clay, and soon caught some of the old men eating it.
— from Wanderings among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines by H. Wilfrid Walker

Remember the manner in which that man is treating me, when all the world has been told of my engagement to him!
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

"But the papers say that the other man escaped." "Which is right."
— from The Ridin' Kid from Powder River by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Protracted engagements are unwise, yet I should not say so; this gave me time to open my eyes—my bewitched eyes: still, some months I passed in a trance of beatification, with visions of duties all performed—benevolence universal, and gratitude, and high success, and crowns of laurel, for my hero, for he was military; it all joined well in my fancy.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Helen by Maria Edgeworth

History, however, has taught that, in a conflict between modern industrial and military nations, it is unwise to entertain any assumption other than that of moral equality until such time as the conflict has demonstrated the existence of a difference, and the degree thereof, or unless prior experience, observation, and acquaintance unquestionably warrant otherwise.
— from Sound Military Decision by Naval War College (U.S.)

“Jeannette, how did that old mule ever manage to travel to Hyden and back with such a load of sweetness?”
— from Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Mathew Joseph Holt

This character seems to correspond with that high tone of morals enjoined in the sacred writings.
— from The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings by John Abercrombie

Ellen!" cried the old man: "Ellen—my dearest daughter, Ellen—oh!
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds