All such interpretation Is aft-for-fore with inverse reasoning, Since naught is born in body so that we May use the same, but birth engenders use: No seeing ere the lights of eyes were born,
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

The history of the family of Mrs. Mercado is unfortunately not so easily traced as is that of her husband, and what is known is of less simplicity and perhaps of more interest since the mother’s influence is greater than the father’s, and she was the mother of José Rizal.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

As he was thus walking, uttering no sound, except to hail the men aloft, or to bid them hoist a sail still higher, or to spread one to a still greater breadth—thus to and fro pacing, beneath his slouched hat, at every turn he passed his own wrecked boat, which had been dropped upon the quarter-deck, and lay there reversed; broken bow to shattered stern.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

For several months I used no stimulus except tobacco, which in the desperate restlessness of the previous summer I had again began to chew after four years' interruption.
— from The Opium Habit by Horace B. Day

‘Una noche sinava en tucue.’
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 1 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

I am unhappily not strong enough to be able to help you in that way.
— from The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins

“Una noche sinava en tucue.”
— from The Bible in Spain Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

And all things in the world were hovering in uncertainty; nothing sure even to hope.
— from The End of a Coil by Susan Warner

We made the resolution between us to avoid any expression of discontent, which, at times, it cost us no small effort to keep.
— from Captivity of the Oatman Girls Being an Interesting Narrative of Life Among the Apache and Mohave Indians by R. B. (Royal Byron) Stratton

This, which is by no means an uncommon notion, sufficiently explains the want of care in the cultivation of the best kinds of meadow produce, which can only be effected by the destruction of what is useless or mischievous.
— from Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation by James Buckman

" "I understand not still," expostulated the German lieutenant.
— from The Sea-girt Fortress: A Story of Heligoland by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

It follows from these premises that the artist can use no single element taken from reality as he finds it—that his work must be ideal in all its parts, if it be designed to have, as it were, an intrinsic reality, and to harmonize with nature.
— from The Bride of Messina, and On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy by Friedrich Schiller