But though he cannot form any such conclusion in a way of reasoning concerning she nearer approach of the pleasure, it is certain he imagines it to approach nearer, whenever all external obstacles are removed, along with the more powerful motives of interest and danger, which oppose it.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

If a person were only reasonably considerate, she might even have been taken for the Ship of State, constructed, as she had been, under the inspection of Reverendos and Ilustrísimos .... Bathed in the sunlight of a morning that made the waters of the river sparkle and the breezes rustle in the bending bamboo on its banks, there she goes with her white silhouette throwing out great clouds of smoke—the Ship of State, so the joke runs, also has the vice of smoking!
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honour for an inward toil; And for unfelt imaginations They often feel a world of restless cares, So that between their tides and low name There's nothing differs but the outward fame.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Cassio was on duty in the Castle where Othello ruled Cyprus, so Iago decided to make the lieutenant drink too much.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

s, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares: So that, between their titles, and low name, There's nothing differs but the outward fame.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Since the day his father died and we set the great Koltykwerp crown of crystal ice upon his cool brow, his temperature has never 163 risen but a half a degree, and that was only for a brief hour or so, and was occasioned by a mad proposal of one of his councillors, who claimed that he had discovered an explosive compound, something like the gunpowder of thy world, I fancy, by which he could shatter the glorious window of rock crystal set in the mountain dome of our under world and let in the warm sunshine.”
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Then, with a warmth of returning circulation, Sheila remembered Miss Blake's dogs, the descendants of the wolf-dog that had littered on the body of a dead man.
— from Hidden Creek by Katharine Newlin Burt

R.W. Wheeler, of Rutland County says: "Have the doe law repealed!
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

The breakfast in the American Officers' Hotel, which our Red Cross set up and operated, cost a uniform five francs (one dollar) and had the substantial quality of a regular up-and-doing tavern on this side of the Atlantic.
— from With the Doughboy in France: A Few Chapters of an American Effort by Edward Hungerford

Yellow weed, or ragwort, covers some fields almost as thickly as buttercups in summer, but it lacks the rich colour of the buttercup.
— from Nature Near London by Richard Jefferies

A wave of rosy colour swept over her cheeks.
— from Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Marie Corelli

[197] Some to work on roads, canals; some to man his ships; Some to smart in mines beneath sharp overseers' whips; Some to trap fur-beasts in lands where utmost winter nips.
— from Poems by Christina Georgina Rossetti

There was a softness about the lodging which smelt a bit stuffy: carpets and hangings everywhere, seats as yielding as down, with the warm unruffled atmosphere of a chest padded with old rainbow coloured satin.
— from Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

That untouched section, to the west of Rue Caumartin, shows us the admirable architecture of the early Empire in the stately fronts, that shrink back behind the boulevard in stony-faced protest against its turmoil.
— from The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 2 (of 2) by Benjamin Ellis Martin