The particulars furnished below may be relied on as authentic and accurate in every respect, as, with a slight exception, they are copied verbatim from the joint diaries of Mr. Monck Mason and Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, to whose politeness our agent is also indebted for much verbal information respecting the balloon itself, its construction, and other matters of interest.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Under this fond apprehension, imagining I could not make too much of the present prodigious joy, before it would vanish and leave me in the desert again, nor verify its reality too strongly, I clung to him, I clasped him, as if to hinder him from escaping me again: "Where have you been?...
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

So that if a virtuous soul have but a little comeliness, he will be content to love and tend him, and will search out and bring to the birth thoughts which may improve the young, until he is compelled to contemplate and see the beauty of institutions and laws, and to understand that the beauty of them all is of one family, and that personal beauty is a trifle; and after laws and institutions he will go on to the sciences, that he may see their beauty, being not like a servant in love with the beauty of one youth or man or institution, himself a slave mean and narrow-minded, but drawing towards and contemplating the vast sea of beauty, he will create many fair and noble thoughts and notions in boundless love of wisdom; until on that shore he grows and waxes strong, and at last the vision is revealed to him of a single science, which is the science of beauty everywhere.
— from Symposium by Plato

Various ideas rushed through her mind as to what the burning of a second will might imply.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

VI In returning to his native town of Shaston as schoolmaster Phillotson had won the interest and awakened the memories of the inhabitants, who, though they did not honour him for his miscellaneous acquirements as he would have been honoured elsewhere, retained for him a sincere regard.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Motion to all appearance induces no real nor essential change on the body, but only varies its relation to other objects.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Vanity is rather to be esteemed a social passion, and a bond of union among men.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

“I entreat you to observe that I have come here voluntarily, in response to that written appeal of a fellow-countryman which lies before you.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

VALDEMAR I received this note within half an hour after it was written, and in fifteen minutes more I was in the dying man’s chamber.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

It is in vain I represent that I have acted for them, and not against, according to your commands.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

She stopped playing and sat watching him intently, her violin in readiness to play again, if he should show the least sign of waking, but there was no such sign.
— from The Skylark of Space by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

Finally, the Riksdag is authorized and required to exercise a supervisory vigilance in relation to the several branches of the governmental system.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

Among the barbarous races of the northern continent, the tribes of the Iroquois confederacy, though scarcely rising above the hunter stage, offer a subject of study of peculiar value in reference to the ethnology of the New World.
— from Prehistoric Man Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

This fact is established by the researches of Villermé in regard to the births and deaths in France, Italy, England and Belgium, and also in regard to the marshy parts of France at different periods of the year, ( Ann. d’hyg. publ.
— from A Treatise on the Diseases Produced By Onanism, Masturbation, Self-Pollution, and Other Excesses. by L. (Léopold) Deslandes

Verily, I read thy letter which contained new significances.
— from Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Rosina, remembering the American’s views in regard to him, stifled a smile.
— from A Woman's Will by Anne Warner

Lincoln, Abraham, his view in regard to the spoils system, 2 ; [Pg viii] aims to develop a Union sentiment, 2 , 3 ; aided by excesses of Democrats, 4 , 5 ; his use of offices, 111 , 112 .
— from The New Nation by Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson

The frenzied appetite of Troilo, Pandaro's ruffian arts, and the gradual yieldings of Griselda to a voluptuous inclination, reveal the master's hand; and though the poem is hurried toward the close (Boccaccio being only interested in the portrayal of his hero's love-languors, ecstasies and disappointment), the Filostrato must -122- undoubtedly be reckoned the finest of his narratives in verse.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 4 (of 7) Italian Literature, Part 1 by John Addington Symonds

A few seamen in Greek costume were employed in the fore part of the vessel in repairing the rigging, but none of them took the slightest notice of her, as Paolo handed her to the gangway, followed by Marianna.
— from The Pirate of the Mediterranean: A Tale of the Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston