They remained ingenuous enough not to set up an “adequate relation” between guilt and misfortune.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The impossibility hitherto of imparting the requisite identical expression, notwithstanding the most careful examination and tracing, constantly adds force to an old saying among dealers that "to make a perfectly successful imitation of Stradivari he must be a Stradivari himself."
— from Antonio Stradivari by Horace Petherick

He proved to me that you alone have right To reign in England, not this upstart queen, The base-born fruit of an adult'rous bed, Whom Henry's self rejected as a bastard.
— from Mary Stuart: A Tragedy by Friedrich Schiller

They drift nearer together; now their rigging is entangled; now they touch!
— from The Story of American History for Elementary Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

Hadn't he strength to resist it even now; to turn their steps back; to let her go, the great-hearted thing she was, as he had found her?
— from The Green Bough by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston

The rock is everywhere near the surface, and the road has been formed by blasting at very many places.
— from Himalayan Journals — Complete Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, etc. by Joseph Dalton Hooker

she remarked philosophically to herself, as she curled herself up to read in earnest, now that her excitement was over.
— from Half a Dozen Girls by Anna Chapin Ray

And yet the reader who likes a complete image, who desires to read with the senses as well as with the reason, is entreated not to forget that he prolonged his consonants and swallowed his vowels, that he was guilty of elisions and interpolations which were equally unexpected, and that his discourse was pervaded by something sultry and vast, something almost African in its rich, basking tone, something that suggested the teeming expanse of the cotton-field.
— from The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) by Henry James

The articles of peace drawn up in 1274 at Oxford between the northern and Irish scholars “read like a treaty of peace between hostile nations rather than an act of University legislation”; and even at the end of Chaucer’s life we may find royal letters “licensing John Russell, born in Ireland, to reside in England, notwithstanding the proclamation that all Irish-born were to go and stay in their own country.”
— from Chaucer and His England by G. G. (George Gordon) Coulton