Oh, my dear, sweet Ustinya Naúmovna, come up to my room a bit later; I must talk with you.
— from Plays by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky

Athelstan’s sword dropped in the press, but as Otho, Archbishop of Canterbury, entreated the heavenly aid, a sword of celestial potency filled the empty sheath, and with it Athelstan fought until night closed upon the scene.
— from Yorkshire Battles by Edward Lamplough

That the writers he had attacked, in many instances without provocation, should resent the ungrateful notoriety conferred upon them was inevitable.
— from The Age of Pope (1700-1744) by John Dennis

We have the same electric fire in our bodies that is in the sun, and it neither burns us nor causes us to shrink up annually, as the scientists say the sun does.
— from The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Geo. W. (George Woodward) Warder

Concerning the battle of Pleasant Hill General Banks reports (page 326): "The whole of the reserves were now ordered up, and in turn we drove the enemy, continuing the pursuit until night compelled us to halt.
— from Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor

Setting to work at once to prepare such a volume I put into it two unpublished novelettes called Up the Cooley and The Branch Road , for the very good reason that none of the magazines, not even The Arena , found them "available."
— from A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

LXIV "'But let your happy souls in joy possess The ivory castles of your bodies fair, Your passed harms salve with forgetfulness, Haste not your coming evils with thought and care, Regard no blazing star with burning tress, Nor storm, nor threatening sky, nor thundering air, This wisdom is, good life, and worldly bliss, Kind teacheth us, nature commands us this.'
— from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso

Under no circumstances use the whip.
— from The Blue Grass Seminary Girls' Vacation Adventures Or, Shirley Willing to the Rescue by Carolyn Judson Burnett

If the temperature is increased, the concentration of the carbon dioxide will diminish, owing to the reaction C + CO 2 = 2CO, but the ferric oxide will undergo no change until the temperature reaches 647°, the point of intersection of the dotted curve with the curve for FeO and Fe 3 O 4 .
— from The Phase Rule and Its Applications by Alexander Findlay