The very lost races are a palimpsest to be deciphered by a seeing eye.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

For to traffic with the wind, as some others have done, and to forge vain names to direct my letters to, in a serious subject, I could never do it but in a dream, being a sworn enemy to all manner of falsification.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In short:— (1) God is unknowable to us and not to be demonstrated by us (the concealed meaning behind the whole of the epistemological movement); (2) God may be demonstrated, but as something evolving, and we are part of it, as our pressing desire for an ideal proves (the concealed meaning behind the historical movement).
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

As for me, I was hungry, and contented myself with silently demolishing the tea, ham, and toast, while my mother and sister went on talking, and continued to discuss the apparent or non-apparent circumstances, and probable or improbable history of the mysterious lady; but I must confess that, after my brother’s misadventure, I once or twice raised the cup to my lips, and put it down again without daring to taste the contents, lest I should injure my dignity by a similar explosion.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

First, there are chosen by lot six cabezas de barangay and six ex-gobernadorcillos as electors, the actual gobernadorcillo being the thirteenth.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

It has been done by a scientific experiment.’
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Under the old French monarchy, to denote by a single expression a low-spirited contemptible fellow, it was usual to say that he had the "soul of a lackey"; the term was enough to convey all that was intended.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Gold and silver we will tell them that they have from God; the diviner metal is within them, and they have therefore no need of the dross which is current among men, and ought not to pollute the divine by any such earthly admixture; for that commoner metal has been the source of many unholy deeds, but their own is undefiled.
— from The Republic by Plato

To-morrow you shall sue to me, through him , for its confirmation, else no duke, but a simple earl, shalt thou remain.”
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

The consular court was as yet distinguished by a simple elegance, equally removed from republican rudeness and the luxuriousness of the Empire.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

Himself he exculpated from all participation in the deed by a solemn, expurgatorial oath.
— from Virgin Saints and Martyrs by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

As we approached Verdun the noise of artillery, which I had heard distantly once or twice during the day, as the casual railway train approached the front, became more intense and grew from a low murmur into a steady noise of a kind of growling description, punctuated at irregular intervals by very deep booms as some especially heavy piece was discharged, or an ammunition dump went up.
— from The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne by King-Hall, Stephen, Sir

It is recorded, that, on the murder of a man of consular dignity by a slave, every slave in his possession was condemned to death.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

Having resolved suitably so to acknowledge the dignity by a special envoy to London, he selected as his proctor Castiglione, the choicest spirit of his elegant court.
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 2 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630. by James Dennistoun

It is also impossible to discover by a surface examination where the fissures may be struck by a boring.
— from Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells With Geological Considerations and Examples of Wells Executed by Ernest Spon

" She drew back and stood erect.
— from Sophy of Kravonia: A Novel by Anthony Hope