Rosy or fiery, she mounted now above a not distant bank; even while we watched her flushed ascent, she cleared to gold, and in very brief space, floated up stainless into a now calm sky.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

But unscrupulous ambition has nothing to work upon, save in a nation corrupted by avarice and luxury.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

" And Ulysses said, "I am no god, why should you take me for one?
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Only one seemed possible, and that was Stern, whose health, undermined by his unparalleled sufferings in Abyssinia, no longer permitted him to serve the Society in the East.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

In 1953 a Director of the United States Information Agency, not under the Department of State but mysteriously attached to the National Security Council, was inaugurated.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

In the United States, I am not sure that the people would return the men of superior abilities who might solicit its support, but it is certain that men of this description do not come forward.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

He followed “Ursule.” She lived in the Rue de l’Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a new, three-story house, of modest appearance.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

In general, then, if an object affects us simultaneously in a number of ways, abcd , we get a peculiar integral impression, which thereafter characterizes to our mind the individuality of that object, and becomes the sign of its presence; and which is only resolved into a, b, c, d, respectively by the aid of farther experiences.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Presently it brought me up sharp in a narrow recess.
— from Pieces of Eight Being the Authentic Narrative of a Treasure Discovered in the Bahama Islands in the Year 1903 by Richard Le Gallienne

The balance of the loose earth was thrown far and wide, and a mass of dead undergrowth spread in as natural a manner as possible over the new-made grave to obliterate all signs of the ground having been disturbed.
— from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

T ULLY snatches it away nervously. )
— from A Little Bit of Fluff: A Farce in Three Acts by Walter Ellis

Any trait of any ancestor, beast or man, near or remote, may crop up suddenly in any new generation.
— from Not Guilty: A Defence of the Bottom Dog by Robert Blatchford

The segments of the abdomen are clad on the upper surface in a narrow red plate, armed with four little spikes, whose office apparently is to furnish points of support when the larva quits the natal dwelling and dives into the soil, there to undergo the transformation.
— from The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Jean-Henri Fabre

"Are we to be called upon to fold our arms, allow the national capital to be seized by a military force under a foreign revolutionary flag; to see the archives of the Government in the hands of a people who affect to despise the flag and Government of the United States? I am not willing to be expelled by military force, nor to fly from the Federal capitol.
— from Fifty Years of Public Service Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois by Shelby M. (Shelby Moore) Cullom

The vacation by judicial decrees of fraudulent certificates of naturalization, upon bills in equity filed by the Attorney-General in the circuit court of the United States, is a new application of a familiar equity jurisdiction.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

"Pardon me," she added, flushing, as her companion looked up sharply, "I am not curious, but I do not know how to address you."
— from The Masked Bridal by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.