That exaltation in the project which is so entirely lacking in Macbeth is strongly marked in her.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Columbus discovered the island, and wrote in such extravagant language its praise.
— from Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings

The only woman I have ever loved, whom I shall ever love, is Sybil Tempest.
— from The Pagan's Cup by Fergus Hume

He would not believe it till he had run to the barn, calling her name in the shadowy place, while the horse at his manger left his corn to look over the walls of his stall with inquisitive surprised eyes, luminous in the dusk.
— from The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge, and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

Now that I've lost her , the one woman I shall ever love, I don't care a rap for my footing in society; [ walking away ] and anybody may have my baronetcy for tuppence!
— from The Big Drum: A Comedy in Four Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

We may thus fairly illustrate the style of plant description of this school by a quotation from Lyte, since it has the advantage of retaining the sixteenth-century flavour, which is so easily lost in a modern translation.
— from Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670 by Agnes Robertson Arber

Silence fell on the crowd as the tall, slender young man stepped forth and stood with his left foot on a line cut in the grass exactly 100 yards from the tree against which the yellow board with its single eye leaned in the sunbeams.
— from Rancho Del Muerto, and Other Stories of Adventure by Various Authors, from "Outing" by Charles King

Such was my case as I lit the fire on the morning of the 21st of December, foolishly wondering whether I should ever light it again.
— from Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

Most of it I hung across the sill, throwing a wide net with my ears, catching every footstep afar off, every hansom bell farther still, only to gather in some alien whom I seldom even landed in our street.
— from Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

As early as 1617, and before he had established his power, he, in an instruction to one of the foreign ministers which is still extant, laid it down as a principle, that, in matters of state, no Catholic ought to prefer a Spaniard to a French Protestant.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

After all, every artist feels that his work is a failure, the success of rendering what he wishes is so exceedingly limited in his mind.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton