Well, do you know, they’ve quit burning wood in some places in the Eastern States?
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

The whole book which is here offered to the public has been written under the impression of a kind of religious dread produced in the author's mind by the contemplation of so irresistible a revolution, which has advanced for centuries in spite of such amazing obstacles, and which is still proceeding in the midst of the ruins it has made.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The complicated relation of virtue to duty, as above determined, must be borne in mind throughout the discussion of the particular virtues, to which I shall proceed in the following chapters.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Without any system or any definite scope they have nothing of that unity in diversity which is so perceptible in the lyrics and minor poems of Goethe and Wordsworth.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

He sinks too often and too abruptly to that style, which I should place in the second division of language, dividing it into the three species; first, that which is peculiar to poetry; second, that which is only proper in prose; and third, the neutral or common to both.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Here, then, we already find the beginnings of that fondness for subtlety and difficult modes of expression [ 66 ] which is so prevalent in the later literature, and which is betrayed even in the earlier period by the saying in one of the Brāhmanas that the gods love the recondite.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Again: the myth which traces the origin of the institution of Freemasonry to the beginning of the world, making its commencement coeval with the creation,—a myth which is, even at this day, ignorantly interpreted, by some, as an historical fact, and the reference to which is still preserved in the date of "anno lucis," which is affixed to all masonic documents,—is but a philosophical myth, symbolizing the idea which analogically connects the creation of physical light in the universe with the birth of masonic or spiritual and intellectual light in the candidate.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

His portrait, which is still preserved in Toronto, somewhat resembles that of George IV.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

to that poor queen whom I saw pass in the tumbril!
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Well; do you know, they've quit burning wood in some places in the Eastern States?
— from The Gilded Age, Part 1. by Charles Dudley Warner

Tearing a leaf from his pocket-ledger, Banneker scribbled a dispatch which is still preserved in the road’s archives as giving more vital information in fewer words than any other railroad document extant.
— from Success: A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams

The guillotine which did its worst is still preserved in the arsenal at Brest, and the whole story is set forth with legal precision in the transactions of the Societé Academique de Brest.
— from The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon by J. M. (Joseph Maria) Gordon

The 18th of October, Madame de Lafayette had herself written in his favour to M. de Vergennes, a letter which is still preserved, in the archives of foreign affairs.
— from Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de

Where, in such paragraphs, is the topic sentence?
— from English: Composition and Literature by W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

In thanksgiving for this victory, the king built the rich monastery in the royal palace of Uneza, near the same city, on a spot where an image of our Lady was dug up, which is still preserved in the church of this convent end is famous for pilgrimages.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

And whatever was proposed, Mr. Gibbons and the gentleman who entertained that rabid antipathy against lawyers and accountants set themselves determinedly to oppose; the last individual illustrating his remarks [Pg 13] with a candour which, if some people in the City did not fear the strong lights of a court as much as ladies of a certain age dread the unflattering glare of sunshine, would infallibly have produced more than one action for libel.
— from Mortomley's Estate: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Riddell, J. H., Mrs.

As an authentic part of the story, I give here the letter which he wrote to Governor Telfair, which is still preserved in the State archives of Georgia: “ Augusta, Georgia , September 26, 1790.
— from Lee and Longstreet at High Tide: Gettysburg in the Light of the Official Records by Helen Dortch Longstreet

It is amusing to observe the parts which individual states play in this process of development.
— from The Future of International Law by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

At first I amused myself with trying to decide whether I should prefer it to be the Riviera or Switzerland this Christmas.
— from If I May by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne