The natural purpose and utility of every virtue is systematically hushed up ; it can only be valuable in the light of a divine command or model, or in the light of the good which belongs to a beyond or a spiritual world.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Here and there in front of a tent an iron kettle, in which a savory compound of meat and vegetables is simmering, hangs upon a tripod above a low fire built on the ground, presided over by some ancient squaw, all very much like a gypsy camp by the roadside in far off Granada.
— from The New Eldorado: A Summer Journey to Alaska by Maturin Murray Ballou

in me any solid virtue, I should have undeceived you in time, and neither you nor I would have sinned.
— from Pepita Ximenez by Juan Valera

To which his former celebrated saying, that it would never be well till all the south side of Forth were made a hunting field; and his acts and actings designed to verify it, since his unhappy succession, do give the lie.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

The village is situated high upon the hill, and consists of scattered cottages, with a sprinkling of goodly page 17 p. 17 houses, some half timbered, after the quaint fashion of former times.
— from Handbook to the Severn Valley Railway Illustrative and Descriptive of Places along the Line from Worcester to Shrewsbury by John Randall

"But if, after receiving the knowledge of the truth, we again lay hold on dead works, and, like a dog, return to our vomit, it shall happen unto us according to the word of the Lord; 'for,' saith he, 'when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man' (to wit, by the grace of baptism) 'he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and finding none.'
— from Barlaam and Ioasaph by Saint John of Damascus

And the melody is rare and rare are the words: master, your voice is subtle: harp us that well.”
— from The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier

I got one of our crew to climb up the tree, and he brought me a good number in his hand; and seeing they were valuable, I sent him up again with my net to shake the flowers into, and thus secured a large quantity.
— from The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace

The holding-ground for the tent-pegs was not all that could be desired, and visions of our tents spreading their wings in the gale and vanishing into space haunted us.
— from A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne

Then he remained for weeks lingering on in a lonely little village in Switzerland, high up among the eternal snows, as though he wished to purify himself of all the dust of his humanity.
— from The Later Life by Louis Couperus

“You must leave them in the van,” I suggested helplessly, “until I have time to think what is to be done with them.”
— from Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie