Yes, a dozen, and as many to the vantage as would store the world they played for.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

We leave you to enjoy your sense of virtue, and we spend our money in procuring those favours which you refuse us.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Promise, then, that you will perform exactly what I shall enjoin.' Emily, awed by the earnest solemnity of his manner, dried her tears, that had begun again to flow, in spite of her efforts to suppress them; and, looking eloquently at St. Aubert, bound herself to do whatever he should require by a vow, at which she shuddered, yet knew not why.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The rest of his body was so streaked, and spotted, and marbled with the same shrouded hue, that, in the end, he had gained his distinctive appellation of the White Whale; a name, indeed, literally justified by his vivid aspect, when seen gliding at high noon through a dark blue sea, leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam, all spangled with golden gleamings.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The rhythms, the sweep, the impetuosity of impassioned contemplation not only contain in themselves a great vitality and potency, but they often succeed in engaging the lower functions in a sympathetic vibration, and we see the whole body and soul rapt, as we say, and borne along by the harmonies of imagination and thought.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

They sport, they feast; Nausicaa lifts her voice, And, warbling sweet, makes earth and heaven rejoice.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

In 647, when Hilda took the veil, Anna was still king.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Space and time themselves, pure as these conceptions are from all that is empirical, and certain as it is that they are represented fully a priori in the mind, would be completely without objective validity, and without sense and significance, if their necessary use in the objects of experience were not shown.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

And therefore our guardians must be men who have been tried by many tests, like gold in the refiner’s fire, and have been passed first through danger, then through pleasure, and at every age have come out of such trials victorious and without stain, in full command of themselves and their principles; having all their faculties in harmonious exercise for their country’s good.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

If we are to be as broad-minded in our religious views as we seek to be in other matters, we must become somewhat acquainted with the worship of races other than our own.
— from The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature by Frank Parsons

Many dishes depend upon sauces to make them palatable, and many made-over dishes are very acceptable when served with a good sauce.
— from The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

The Venetian ambassador, Wotton said, was the person who had told him; but the quarter from which the information originally came, he believed, might be relied on.—Wotton to the Queen and Council:
— from The Reign of Mary Tudor by James Anthony Froude

There was real feeling and a thoughtful interpretation given to some of these things, for Aileen was not without sentiment, though she was so strong, vigorous, and withal so defiant; but it was all lost on him.
— from The Financier: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

On this occasion he displayed his wonted valour, and while standing in the breach of the castle, he was struck by a cannon shot which fractured his leg.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 7 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

He reverently replaced the veil, and withdrawing somewhat into the shadow, knelt down to pray.
— from By Far Euphrates: A Tale by Deborah Alcock

“For, more than thirteen centuries ago, Benedict fleeing from the gates of Rome, A youth disgusted with its vice and woe, Sought in these mountain solitudes a home.
— from Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting

Its ground plan can, however, be identified, with the assistance of the small circus of Maxentius on the Via Appia, which still partially exists.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

Golberry repeats the same praise, and rebukes the presumption of white men in despising "nations improperly called savage, among whom we find men of integrity, models of filial, conjugal, and paternal Page 185 [Pg 185] affection, who know all the energies and refinements of virtue; among whom sentimental impressions are more deep, because they observe, more than we, the dictates of nature, and know how to sacrifice personal interest to the ties of friendship."
— from An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child

Then Ammonius sent forward Arius and bade him relate to the assembly the story of the shipwreck of Hatasa and Theckla, and of their desire to become Christians; and the boy narrated the circumstances so vividly, and with such unconscious force and eloquence, that they twain also were welcomed into the hearts of all those Christians, and the sense of strangeness and restraint that naturally affects the mind at our first meeting with those whom we have not seen before was at once dissolved by the influence of fraternal interest and affection.
— from Arius the Libyan: A Romance of the Primitive Church by Nathan C. (Nathan Chapman) Kouns