Hell heard th’ unsufferable noise, Hell saw Heav’n ruining from Heav’n and would have fled Affrighted; but strict Fate had cast too deep Her dark foundations, and too fast had bound.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Hell heard the unsufferable noise, Hell saw Heaven ruining from Heaven, and would have fled Affrighted; but strict Fate had cast too deep Her dark foundations, and too fast had bound.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

But when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

I then caused him to make the letters bread , and in an instant Laura went and brought him a piece: he smelled at it; put it to his lips; cocked up his head with a most knowing look; seemed to reflect a moment; and then laughed outright, as much as to say, “Aha! I understand now how something may be made out of this.”
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Hell heard th' unsufferable noise, Hell saw Heav'n ruining from Heav'n and would have fled Affrighted; but strict Fate had cast too deep Her dark foundations, and too fast had bound.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Yet it is difficult to assign a cause for this; no book is perhaps oftener unwittingly quoted, none certainly oftener unblushingly pillaged; upon none have so many contradictory opinions been given.
— from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

The MS. reads: "Panting and breathless on the sands, But all unwounded, now he stands;" and just below: "Redeemed, unhoped, from deadly strife:
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

We are here moving towards the fine quiescence involved by a delicate equipoise of life and of death; and this economy sets free an energy we are seeking to expend in a juster social organization, and in the realization of ideals which until now have seemed but the imagination of idle dreamers.
— from The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis

This conceit does us no harm so long as we remember that there are as many centres of the universe as there are people, cats, mice and other thinking animals.
— from Why Worry? by George Lincoln Walton

Mr. Mortomley does not understand neither; how should he?
— from Mortomley's Estate: A Novel. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Riddell, J. H., Mrs.

“You would shift the responsibility upon one who, being dead, can tell us nothing,” he said in a tone of reproachful contempt.
— from Whoso Findeth a Wife by William Le Queux

"That is unjust, Nan," he said gravely.
— from The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White

Already there were fifty or more, and those at the head, by their demeanour, evidently congratulated themselves upon not having so long to wait as those at the foot.
— from Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

[2086] The unaided negro has steadily grown worse; but Tuskegee, Normal, Calhoun, and similar bodies are endeavoring to assist the negro of the black counties to become an efficient member of society.
— from Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama by Walter L. (Walter Lynwood) Fleming

Charlotte did not know until now how she had chafed at this delay; how she had longed to be the wife of the man she loved.
— from How It All Came Round by L. T. Meade