Dr. Howe was an experimental scientist and had in him the spirit of New England transcendentalism with its large faith and large charities.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

It is noticed by Byron: "The nightingale that sings with the deep thorn, That fable places in her breast of wail, Is lighter far of heart and voice than those Whose headlong passions form their proper woes."
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

But when the year is in question, without regard to month or day, and when the year is written in legible figures, a rough formula for computing the corresponding Christian date is as follows: Subtract from the given Mohammedan year one thirty-third part of itself, and add to the remainder six hundred and twenty-two.
— from The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by William De Lancey Ellwanger

‘But when I look for his father in his face, I find her every day more!
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

By that natural understanding which God has given me I know that everything beautiful attracts love, but I cannot see how, by reason of being loved, that which is loved for its beauty is bound to love that which loves it; besides, it may happen that the lover of that which is beautiful may be ugly, and ugliness being detestable, it is very absurd to say, "I love thee because thou art beautiful, thou must love me though I be ugly."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Power that gave the soft alarms In blooming Whitefoord's rosy charms, Still threats the tiny, feather'd arms, The barbed dart, While lovely Wilhelmina warms The coldest heart.^7 After 21st stanza of the text (at “That, to adore”):— Where Lugar leaves his moorland plaid,^8 Where lately Want was idly laid, [Footnote 3: Captain James Montgomerie, Master of St. James' Lodge, Tarbolton, to which the author has the honour to belong.—R.B.]
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

I was informed of your passage at Bordeaux, where I left faithful Cacambo and the old woman, who are to follow me very soon.
— from Candide by Voltaire

Thus, where two parties, neither having title, claimed a crop of corn adversely to each other, and cultivated it alternately, and the plaintiff gathered and threw it in small piles in the same field, where it lay for a week, and then each party simultaneously began to carry it away, it was held the plaintiff had not gained possession. /1/
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

" "But if you take away my voice," said the little mermaid, "what is left for me?" "Your beautiful form, your graceful walk, and your expressive eyes; surely with these you can enchain a man's heart.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

You spoke to me yesterday of a mathematical man who is looking for a job.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The fine temper and good breeding that seem to be characteristic of the Stanhope family, have not degenerated in this branch of it; and his manner, as well as his voice and accent, remind me very forcibly of my dear old friend his father, who is one of the most amiable, as well as agreeable men I ever knew, and who I look forward with pleasure to meeting on my return home.
— from The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of

Lady Coventry, drooping under that malady which seems ever to select what is loveliest for its prey, could render no assistance.
— from Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Still the water I longed for and yet feared came not.
— from A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari And Other Tales of South-West Africa by Frederick Carruthers Cornell

Strangers will immediately look for American plants, especially for those species of trees which are generally cultivated in Europe; but, instead of them, they will 42 observe only European trees, such as Lombardy poplars, Babylonian willows, syringa hibiscus, chestnuts, elms, &c., and it was with much difficulty that I found some stems of the catalpa, which was just then on the point of flowering, and some other native trees.
— from Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 1 by Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von

The colander, as my informer assures me, is the soul, and the soul which he compares to a colander is the soul of the ignorant, which is likewise full of holes, and therefore incontinent, owing to a bad memory and want of faith.
— from Gorgias by Plato

Snow: I think of it as [ 98 ] a sort of mysterious unknown purity, which I long for, but which I never seem to meet.
— from The Hidden Force: A Story of Modern Java by Louis Couperus

While I lay flat on my face on the ground, held [ 388 ] down firmly, they unwound the ropes from around my wrists, and the iron fetters, joined by a heavy chain, were substituted for them.
— from In the Forbidden Land An account of a journey in Tibet, capture by the Tibetan authorities, imprisonment, torture and ultimate release by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

After starting a fire, she volunteered to remain and feed it while I looked for game.
— from A Virginia Scout by Hugh Pendexter

Trembling with expectation and excitement, I crept down toward the flock, keeping out of sight behind some rocks until I was as near as it was possible to go, when I let fly my volley of improvised slung-shots as well as I could direct them into the thickest of the birds.
— from The Spanish Galleon Being an account of a search for sunken treasure in the Caribbean Sea. by Charles Sumner Seeley