" Keating rode up now, and the transaction became more complicated.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

The tradition seems to have altered with circumstances, for a traveller of nearly two centuries later (Friar Anselmo, 1509) describes the oak of Abraham at Hebron as a tree of dense and verdant foliage: "The Saracens make their devotions at it, and hold it in great veneration, for it has remained thus green from the days of Abraham until now; and they tie scraps of cloth on its branches inscribed with some of their writing, and believe that if any one were to cut a piece off that tree he would die within the year."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

After these general premisings and contrastings, let us now approach the Greeks in order to learn in what degree and to what height these art-impulses of nature were developed in them: whereby we shall be enabled to understand and appreciate more deeply the relation of the Greek artist to his archetypes, or, according to the Aristotelian expression, "the imitation of nature."
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

However, in spite of my bashfulness and appearance, I used, now and then, to thrust myself into Will's to have the pleasure of seeing the most celebrated wits of that time, who then resorted thither.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

how many years have we all in the village been unscrewing nuts, and the Lord has been merciful; and you talk of accidents, killing people.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

This account sums up nearly all that is known of him.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

It assumes the objective or unconscious nature as the first, and as therefore to explain how intelligence can supervene to it, or how itself can grow into intelligence.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You deny it?—let us not argue the matter.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Man, who is merged in universal nature at the roots of his being, is not without profound irrational intuitions by which he can half divine her secret processes; and his heart, in its own singing and fluttering, might not wholly misinterpret the birds.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

There are not two Leaves on the Trees throughout [223] the Universe, nor any two Globes of Light amongst the Myriad of Stars that deck the infinite Expanse of Heaven, which are perfectly alike.
— from Zadig; Or, The Book of Fate by Voltaire

It would be more like her, I think, to go to the opposite extreme—dress like an Ursuline nun and take nothing from her tenants; but let us hope that she may be able to strike the golden mean.”
— from Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney

And the English exploring-ship in Yaquina Bay was to weigh anchor on the morrow, and sail up nearer along the unknown coast.
— from The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Frederic Homer Balch

“At last the evening closed in; but unlike the preceding one, the sky was covered with masses of dark and watery cloud that drifted hurriedly across; the air felt heavy and thick, and unnaturally still and calm; the water of the harbor looked of a dull, leaden hue, and all the vessels seemed larger than they were, and stood out from the landscape more clearly than usual; now and then a low rumbling noise was heard, somewhat alike in sound, but far too faint for distant thunder, while occasionally the boats and smaller craft rocked to and fro, as though some ground swell stirred them without breaking the languid surface of the sea above.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever

The study was as usual neat and tidy, denoting the orderly habits of a man of action and energy.
— from I Will Repay by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Boots and shoes they called "understandings"; they turned and twisted every word, tossing it like a ball from mouth to mouth, until not a trace of sense was left in it.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02 by Martin Andersen Nexø

She should be allowed to gradually dry up now, and toward the time of calving, she should not be fed exclusively on dry food.
— from Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

There! put my shoes out to clean, and tuck me up nicely, and then if you like you can go to bed.
— from The Maidens' Lodge; or, None of Self and All of Thee (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Emily Sarah Holt

At the mouth of the river still lay the fog, waiting for us, now and then stretching a ghostly arm over the woods and then withdrawing it, like a spirit of the lake, longing and yet timid to embrace the land.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Thus, at some periods a pestilential disease may have lessened the average duration of human life, or a variety of circumstances may have caused the births to be unusually numerous, and the population to multiply; or, a province may be suddenly colonized by persons migrating from surrounding districts.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir