No waking touch on my belly and knees, no chance to comb and dress my hair at leisure, no mirror for dawdling, no winging of gulls.
— from Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett

There resulted, not the divine novelty and largeness of that one moment, but a kind of dim and bare desert waste of wide extent.
— from Foes by Mary Johnston

The other man being a kind-hearted fellow did his best to get his father to be merciful; but he was not kind-hearted enough to take the place in the dock where his friend stood a month later to receive the judge’s sentence for the crime which he had taken on his own shoulders.”
— from According to Plato by Frank Frankfort Moore

She says my man will surely come, And fetch me home agin; But always, as I'm movin' round, Without doors or within, Pilin' the wood or pilin' the turf, Or goin' to the well, I'm thinkin' of my baby And keenin' to mysel'.
— from Poems by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

I was just able to turn on my back and keep afloat until I could grasp the top branches of the tree.
— from Duffels by Edward Eggleston

[73] "By this bloody tragedy," observes Mr. Breckenridge, "all Kentucky was literally in mourning; for the soldiers thus massacred, tortured, burned, or denied the common rites of sepulture, were of the most respectable families of the state; many of them young men of fortune and property, with numerous friends and relatives.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

What will she think of Mrs. Branagan and Kerry O'Leary?—and what will they think of her?” “Lord save us, Mark, this is an awfu' business; a French waiting woman here!
— from The O'Donoghue: Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever

Truly the one might be a king to suit the kingdoms of this world, the other had a soul near the Kingdom of Heaven.
— from The Herd Boy and His Hermit by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

On the basis of the inseparability of sensibility and understanding the ideal of knowledge—an extension of knowledge to be attained by a priori means (p. 333)—experiences a remarkable addition in the position that the rational synthesis thus obtained must be a knowledge of reality, must be applied to matter given in intuition.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

Scarlett and the minister were bent on some errand in another quarter of the town, but by tacit consent had taken the road past Evelyn's cabin, actuated, in the case of the older man, by a kind wish not to lose sight of her for long, and in the case of the lover by the force that guides all steps toward the beloved.
— from Scarlett of the Mounted by Marguerite Merington