In 1604 the Brethren who then constituted the inner circle of the Order discovered a door on which was written in large letters Post 120 Annos Patebo.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

I more unwillingly visit the sick in whom by love and duty I am interested, than those I care not for, to whom I less look.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Was I left, like Sancho Panca, to choose my kingdom, it should not be maritime—or a kingdom of blacks to make a penny of;—no, it should be a kingdom of hearty laughing subjects:
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

This, and the two following Stanzas would have been withdrawn, as somewhat de trop, from the Text, but for advice which I least like to disregard.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

Never has that curtain dropped so heavy and blank, as when my way in life lay stretched out straight before me through the newly entered road of apprenticeship to Joe.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The enemy occupied not only the city itself, with its long line of outer works, but the many forts which had been built to guard the approaches from the sea-such as at Beaulieu, Rosedew, White Bluff, Bonaventura, Thunderbolt, Cansten's Bluff, Forts Tatnall, Boggs, etc., etc.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

"We'll see what it looks like outside," he said with a certain grimness.
— from This World Is Taboo by Murray Leinster

I continued my story as follows, determined to make it as brief as possible: “My father, I was torn by remorse when I left Leila.
— from Balthasar and Other Works - 1909 by Anatole France

I dwell on the word "began" because I think it is probable that in its beginnings, and for a long period after, this newborn consciousness had an infantile and very innocent character, quite different from its later and more aggressive forms—just as we see self-consciousness in a little child has a charm and a grace which it loses later in a boastful or grasping boyhood and manhood.
— from Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning by Edward Carpenter

When he looked up again his glance was bright and satisfied, and Bent-Anat knew what it promised when it lingered lovingly first on her, and then on her friend, whose head was still graced by the wreath that had crowned hers.
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 09 by Georg Ebers

The child awoke with an eye of gladness, With a light on his head and a matchless grace, And laughed at the passing shades of sadness That chased the smiles on his mother's face; And life with its lightsome load of youth Swam like a boat on a shining lake— Freighted with hopes enough, in sooth, But he lived to trample on joy and truth, And change his crown for a murder-stake!
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald

Shelley seems to have been in a very special manner the victim of this species of brutality, just as he was in later life of many other species; there was a natural antipathy between him and everything base and stupid and foul, and he never entered into a compromise with any one or any thing of this nature.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England by Georg Brandes

If the Frenchman in question is indeed, as I suppose, innocent of this atrocity, this advertisement which I left last night, upon our return home, at the office of ‘Le Monde,’ (a paper devoted to the shipping interest, and much sought by sailors,) will bring him to our residence.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

James A. Brady, No. 146 West Van Buren Street; shell wound in left leg, slight injury to toes of left foot and shell wound in left thigh; single.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

It should know human errors so well—has, with its large luminous forces, such errors itself when it deigns to be human, that, where others may scorn, genius should only pity.”
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

roundabout way past his mother's plate, slyly across to his aunt, to see whether it looked like an order to go to bed at once.
— from Erick and Sally by Johanna Spyri