And if there be of love a dream Rose-scented as the west, Which shows, each time it comes, a gleam,— A something sweet and blest,— A dream of which heaven is the pole, A dream that mingles soul and soul, I fain of it would make the goal Where thy mind should rest.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

What sacrifices equal the self-denials which loving men and women make for one another?
— from What Men Live By, and Other Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It was sometimes expressed Tar; hence Tarcunia, Taracena, Tarracon in Spain, Tarne (Tar-ain) which gave name to a fountain in Lydia; Taron (Tar-On) in Mauritania.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

Every thing was silent, except the leaves of the trees, which were gently agitated by the wind; the night was nearly dark; and the scene would have been solemn and affecting even to an uninterested observer.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Broderick was so elated that, on reaching the post, he had to celebrate his victory by a big drunk.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Therefore you do not owe the Macedonians so much gratitude for not destroying your city when they had taken it, as hostility and hatred, for having more than once already stood in your way, when you were strong enough to grasp the supremacy of Greece.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

The facts those men were so eager to know had been visible, tangible, open to the senses, occupying their place in space and time, requiring for their existence a fourteen-hundred-ton steamer and twenty-seven minutes by the watch; they made a whole that had features, shades of expression, a complicated aspect that could be remembered by the eye, and something else besides, something invisible, a directing spirit of perdition that dwelt within, like a malevolent soul in a detestable body.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

He and I walked away together; we stopped a little while by the rails of the Adelphi, looking on the Thames, and I said to him with some emotion that I was now thinking of two friends we had lost, who once lived in the buildings behind us, Beauclerk and Garrick.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

The only effect produced upon them was astonishment at the unexpected report and smoke, which was so excessive that for some moments I almost thought they would abandon their design entirely, and return to the shore.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

I liked him myself for he was dreaming bigger things than I. To watch his thin cheeks grow red and his big brown eyes flash as he talked of some old painting gave me a realization that there was something else to be thought of even down here than mere money success.
— from One Way Out: A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America by William Carleton

Snug in his bunk, feigning exhaustion and illness after exposure and privation, the wretch successfully evaded the ken of Joe and his friends while sending messages of the profoundest gratitude to them.
— from The Great Airship: A Tale of Adventure. by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

He was strong enough to admit ignorance
— from The Trespasser, Complete by Gilbert Parker

It was plain when she entered that already her system was being toned up, and when we were again in my private office, she said: "I have lost six and a half pounds; not quite as much as you told me, but I am delighted, though nearly starved.
— from Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

The noise was startling enough to excuse Mary for jumping in her chair, and it seemed to put an end to the strange talk of "Mr. High" and "Mr. Low" back of the screen, for after the crash of china only indistinct murmurs came from there.
— from Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters; Or, Battling with Flames from the Air by Victor Appleton

They behold us in our weakness, our fears and our divisions; but they also look on Him who “sits expecting till His enemies are made His footstool.”
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Ephesians by George G. (George Gillanders) Findlay

He gave us an entertaining account of Bet Flint, a woman of the town, who, with some eccentrick talents and much effrontery, forced herself upon his acquaintance.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

My strength, which was so exhausted that I could scarcely stand unsupported, is coming back satisfactorily, and the cough has ceased to vex me at all.
— from The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning