Those are pearls that were his eyes, Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

As we have earlier noted, this notion was fostered by the new interest in education as method of social reform.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Now, the first, the grandest, and most decisive act of judgment which the Statesman and General exercises is rightly to understand in this respect the War in which he engages, not to take it for something, or to wish to make of it something, which by the nature of its relations it is impossible for it to be.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

“It appears the dear child has obtained possession of a bottle containing some drug, which he every now and then uses against those who have displeased him.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I noticed we had emptied no less than twenty bottles of champagne, though it is true that we drank very little of any other wine, as the ladies preferred it.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

On one part, which had evidently not been ploughed for several years, probably because the land was poor, bushes had grown up, some to the height of eight or ten feet.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

He had only one other point to urge, and that was, that Monsieur Val, who, as he had understood, was himself a Protestant—the doctor bowed—would make arrangements with some kind and benevolent Protestant clergyman, through whom spiritual advice and consolation might be secured for the invalid lady; who had especial need, Robert added, gravely, of such advantages.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Mrs. Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, anxious look upon her face.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

We have encountered nasal diphtheria—with typical bloody mucous discharge—so frequently in connection with scurvy, that where this local infection occurs among a group of infants they should be carefully examined for latent or mild scurvy.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, I. 2. 400 But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.
— from The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William Shakespeare

Amongst the great men, Wren, his epitaph notwithstanding, might well have a monument with a list of his buildings on the pedestal.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch by Arthur Dimock

Truely, Fortunes displeasure is but sluttish if it smell so strongly as thou speak'st of: I will hencefoorth eate no Fish of Fortunes butt'ring.
— from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare

As in Italy, the ancient and modern towns held themselves apart from one another, as if there could be no sympathy between the two, though the new houses were pushing and would have encroached now and then if they could.
— from My Friend the Chauffeur by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Eugene leaned back in his chair, and smoked with his eyes negligently turned on the informer, and his pen ready to reduce him to more writing.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

It is to be noted also that even in this little party there was a spirit of disagreement, and that Triegard’s leadership, owing to the feeling of absolute equality among the different heads of families, was hardly even nominal, much less real.
— from Willem Adriaan Van Der Stel, and Other Historical Sketches by George McCall Theal

We fell to work as if we had eat nothing in the night, and employed ourselves so for the best part of the day.
— from Byron's Narrative of the Loss of the Wager With an account of the great distresses suffered by himself and his companions on the coast of Patagonia from the year 1740 till their arrival in England 1746 by John Byron

She did not cease with her entreaties; nay, suddenly she threw her arm round his neck, and kissed him with the liveliest expression of fondness.
— from Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All eyes were upon the young Count--so rare a visiter at the palace, and upon her--so admired, so courted, so disdainful, as she was believed to be by every one present, but whose destiny seemed now decided, and whose heart everyone naturally believed to be won.
— from The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants. Volumes I-III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James