It was but imagination, yet imagination had all the terrors of reality; nay, it was worse, for the reality would have come and gone, and there an end, but in imagination it was always coming, and never went away.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Candour will say of this ill-fated First French Parliament that it wanted not its modicum of talent, its modicum of honesty; that it, neither in the one respect nor in the other, sank below the average of Parliaments, but rose above the average.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

They therefore as to right belongd, So were created, nor can justly accuse Thir maker, or thir making, or thir Fate; As if Predestination over-rul'd Thir will, dispos'd by absolute Decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Thir own revolt, not I: if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknown.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

By oldest right, by the divine affinity of virtue with itself, I find them, or rather, not I, but the Deity in me and in them, both deride and cancel the thick walls of individual character, relation, age, sex and circumstance, at which he usually connives, and now makes many one.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

They therefore as to right belongd, So were created, nor can justly accuse Thir maker, or thir making, or thir Fate; As if Predestination over-rul’d Thir will, dispos’d by absolute Decree Or high foreknowledge; they themselves decreed Thir own revolt, not I: if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov’d certain unforeknown.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

They therefore, as to right belong'd, So were created, nor can justly accuse Their Maker, or their making, or their fate, As if predestination over-rul'd Their will dispos'd by absolute decree Or high foreknowledge they themselves decreed Their own revolt, not I; if I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less proved certain unforeknown.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Banana groves and orchards bending under the weight of the rich nutritious fruit, tall cocoanut-trees with half a ton of ripening nuts in every tuft top, ant-hills nearly as high as native houses, rippling cascades, small rivers winding through the green valleys, tall flamingoes presiding over tiny lakes, and flowers of every hue and shape, together with birds such as one gazes at with curiosity in northern museums, all crowded upon our vision on this trip inland.
— from Due West; Or, Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou

After the taking of Ratisbon Napoleon issued an address to his soldiers complimenting them highly on their valor.
— from Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire by Montgomery B. Gibbs

Nevertheless, neither is faith transmissible or rational, nor is reason vital.
— from Tragic Sense Of Life by Miguel de Unamuno

At last the one remaining night in our tent—over.
— from Two Dianas in Somaliland: The Record of a Shooting Trip by Agnes Herbert

We have also found that, if one's desire is to make life narrow, pinched, and of little value, to rob it of its chief charms, the only requirement necessary is to become self-centred, to live continually with the little, stunted self, which will inevitably grow more and more diminutive and shrivelled as time passes, instead of reaching out and having a part in the great life of humanity, thus illimitably intensifying and multiplying his own.
— from What All The World's A-Seeking The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness Power and Happiness by Ralph Waldo Trine

what profits all that earth, Or heaven's blue vault, is suffered to put forth Of impulse or allurement, for the Soul To quit the beaten track of life, and soar Far as she finds a yielding element 215 In past or future; far as she can go Through time or space—if neither in the one, Nor in the other region, nor in aught That Fancy, dreaming o'er the map of things, Hath placed beyond these penetrable bounds, [115] 220 Words of assurance can be heard; if nowhere A habitation, for consummate good, Or for [231] progressive virtue, by the search Can be attained,—a better sanctuary From doubt and sorrow, than the senseless grave?" "Is this," the grey-haired Wanderer mildly said, 226 "The voice, which we so lately overheard, To that same child, addressing tenderly The consolations of a hopeful mind?
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 5 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

Compare the other registers named in Bibliographical Note X, showing a few entries each year.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

The Tsar of Russia, Nicholas I, was the first to move towards war.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

"We can choose to halt this operation right now if . . ."
— from Caribbee by Thomas Hoover