Where is the mother who would willingly forget the infant that perished like a blossom from her arms though every recollection is a pang?
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Well do I remember the lofty expectations which he built on our alliance with Mustapha; and much do I fear, that this rash courage will urge the ruin of our house, and that even religion may precipitate our downfall."
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It was in vain to sit still and wish for what was not to be had; and this extremity roused my application.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Lizzie Hexam, too, had avoided the noise, and the Saturday movement of people in the straggling street, and chose to walk alone by the water until her tears should be dry, and she could so compose herself as to escape remark upon her looking ill or unhappy on going home.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

I shrank, with feelings almost akin to fear, from the hard-featured, sun-burnt harpies, as they elbowed rudely past me.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

To church, and then home to dinner, and after dinner to a little musique with my boy, and so to church with my wife, and so home, and with her all the evening reading and at musique with my boy with great pleasure, and so to supper, prayers, and to bed. 31st.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He says that Cocinthos (now Capo di Stilo) would in such case form the central projection, while Lacinium (now Capo delle Colonne) would form the horn at the extreme right, and Leucopetra (now Capo dell’ Armi) the horn on the extreme left.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Almost pathetic does the long and vast history appear just now, when competent men of science are giving us good reason to believe that right knowledge of the sun, and the relation of its spots to the rainfall, might have covered India with ways and means which would have adapted the entire realm to its environment, and wrested from Indra his hostile thunderbolt—the sunstroke of famine.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Consequently, despairing of his own and the soldiers' prospects he abandoned that entire region and retired to [Pg 236] Capua.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

No one, it is believed, can master the volume heretofore alluded to, entitled "Rational Psychology," and so [121] appreciate the demonstration therein contained, of the utter incompetency of the Sense or Understanding to solve such questions as Mr. Spencer has raised by his incident of the partridge, (p. 69,) and the utter irrelevancy to them of the efforts of those faculties, without feeling how tame and unsatisfactory in comparison is the evidence drawn from a few facts in a sensuous experience.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

And it means that both the religious and the ethical life is to upraise and anchor us to Him, and to eternal righteousness as it is in Him.
— from Theoretical Ethics by M. (Milton) Valentine

The fourth wonder of your Arabian Knights’ discoveries is the fact that a savage of the wild hordes can be favorably influenced by exampled goodness, or in any way hold himself amenable to either reason or kindness.
— from The Manatitlans or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A. by R. Elton Smile

The Indians were set on like dogs by the French, who stimulated the thirst for blood by political and religious hatreds; and the English repaid in kind.
— from Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations by William Elliot Griffis

The examination of these spots led to the discovery that the sun revolves like the other planets, and that he accomplishes the entire revolution upon his axis in a period of twenty-five days.
— from The Day After Death; Or, Our Future Life According to Science (New Edition) by Louis Figuier

I had had a glimpse of the peak from 147 the sea on the previous morning, but light clouds hung about the entire range during this day, and I was unable to identify with certainty any of the summits.
— from Notes of a naturalist in South America by John Ball

This air coming from the regions beyond the tropics would, in its turn, be heated, and rise on reaching the warmer equatorial regions, giving place to a fresh supply, which, it is easy to see, must be furnished by the descent of that portion of air formerly heated at the equator, raised into the cold regions of the sky, and forced into a regular circuit by fresh elevations of heated air.
— from The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Basil Hall

Homer, and the entire Renaissance.
— from The Pastor's Wife by Elizabeth Von Arnim

I am going to look for him," added the eldest Rover, for the man had now disappeared.
— from The Rover Boys on the Farm; or, Last Days at Putnam Hall by Edward Stratemeyer

At eighteen she was as much mistress of her own house as if she had been eight-and-forty; and although her old governess continued to live with her, at the earnest request rather than the positive command of her guardians, yet the very idea of governing anything never seemed to enter into the good lady's head.
— from The Forgery; or, Best Intentions. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James