Whence it becomes manifest,
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

Wherever she laid her hands on grass and flowers, they would immediately be moist, as with morning dew.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The capital, the palace, the nuptial bed, were torn by spiritual discord; yet so doubtful was the sincerity of the royal consorts, that their seeming disagreement was imputed by many to a secret and mischievous confederacy against the religion and happiness of their people.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

During all this time I was in a murdering humour, and spent most of my hours, which should have been better employed, in contriving how to circumvent and fall upon them the very next time I should see them—especially if they should be divided, as they were the last time, into two parties; nor did I consider at all that if I killed one party—suppose ten or a dozen—I was still the next day, or week, or month, to kill another, and so another, even ad infinitum , till I should be, at length, no less a murderer than they were in being man-eaters—and perhaps much more so.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

“It does,” replied the abbé; “with the addition of an equal division of that part intended for the elder Dantès, which I believe myself at liberty to divide equally with the four survivors.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

"Will it be more comprehensible, Sir Leicester, if I say," the ironmaster is reddening a little, "that I do not regard the village school as teaching everything desirable to be known by my son's wife?"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

This precious liquor was imbibed by Mr. Tiffany with peculiar zest, and after sipping the third glass it was his pleasure to give us one of the oddest legends which he had yet raked from the storehouse where he keeps such matters.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

if men by selling their own souls could ride rampant for a term, for how short a term would I barter mine tonight!’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

For this was it, bountiful mother, thou dost rescue me amid fire and sword, to see the foe in my inmost chambers, and Ascanius and my father, Creüsa by their side, hewn down in one another's blood?
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

His approaching fate was indicated by many prodigies.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

How should life be possible in a world of uncertain dimensions, where incalculable blows might fall upon us at any time from any quarter?
— from Soliloquies in England, and Later Soliloquies by George Santayana

355 The ill humour of the aristocracy was inflamed by Marlborough, who, at this time, affected the character of a patriot persecuted for standing up against the Dutch in defence of the interests of his native land, and who did not foresee that a day would come when he would be accused of sacrificing the interests of his native land to gratify the Dutch.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

The stream that flows even with its banks, making the meadows green, delights us ever; the one that overflows surprises for a moment.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. Interviews by Robert Green Ingersoll

If it be argued that art which depicts the human emotions is properly speaking subjective, and therefore a proof of developed personality, will it be maintained that Japan is devoid of such art?
— from Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick

He continues: "But when I now see many of these pieces torn apart and altered in form, when I see to what evil uses the long runs are put, to wit, those consisting of single and double notes (repeated ones), as if both kinds were combined, and which were invented by me in order to do away with the former old fashion of introduced passages, which were for wind or stringed instruments rather than the human voice; when further I see how dynamic gradations of tone are used without discrimination, what enunciation now is, and how trills, gruppetti and other ornaments are introduced, I consider it necessary—and in this I am upheld 222 by my friends—to have my music printed.
— from Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson

My watch was gone; perhaps I had not been wearing it, but my pocket-book in which I had my money was safe in my breast pocket.
— from A Crystal Age by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

And the whole is preceded by that legend of the first discovery of the West Indies by Madoc the Welshman, in the year 1170, which is cast in apparently for what it may be worth.
— from The Boy's Hakluyt: English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery by Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe) Bacon

What was it but miserable cowardice, he thought, that prevented him from getting the peace poor Barrett had found?
— from Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete by George Meredith

Anna answered, As the Lord my God liveth, whatever I bring forth, whether it be male or female, I will devote it to the Lord my God and it shall minister to him in holy things, during its whole life.
— from The suppressed Gospels and Epistles of the original New Testament of Jesus the Christ, Volume 2, the Protevanglion by William Wake