But they yet produce either effects far beyond our capacity, to which we are so far from being able to arrive by imitation that we cannot so much as by imitation conceive it.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But, said he, for what purpose, I feel impelled to ask, are you going to build these vessels? Are you to spend four or five millions of dollars, in addition to your present extraordinary expenditures, to protect commerce?
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The yellow plants embraced every tint of yellow and orange imaginable, while the pinks ran the whole gamut of shades of that colour.
— from Jethou; or, Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles by Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) Suffling

I have seen you in the bondage of the camp With a heel-rope on a pastern raw and red, Up and fighting at the stable-picket's tramp With the courage of the way that you were bred; I have seen you standing, broken, in the rain, Lone and fretting for a yesterday's caress; I have seen your valour spur you up again From the sorrow that your patient eyes express.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 30, 1914 by Various

He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the age of 14 years, probably the youngest person ever elected to that organization.
— from Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development by Leta Stetter Hollingworth

Muchos se an quejado de este agravio al Tribunal, y por escusar enpeños ó lo que podia resultar y se
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

The king had been made prisoner at the last battle, and the queen was now in the northern counties with her son, the young prince Edward, endeavouring to raise fresh forces.
— from The Grateful Indian, and Other Stories by William Henry Giles Kingston

She was pretty enough and good enough, the old man justly thought, for him or for his betters; and though he regarded the good-will which the young people evidently entertained for one another with favor, he saw in it neither condescension nor advantage.
— from Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel by James Payn