No conversation, not one word, passed between General Lee and myself, either about private property, side arms, or kindred subjects.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Among the most noteworthy may be mentioned Robinson's Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, and Prof. J. H. Thayer's later and more elaborate Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, based upon Prof. Grimm's get Lexicon; which is well adapted to meet the needs of the critical student.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Whatever would have become of me if P—— had not looked after my education, and had taken care of his own son instead of me?’
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They therefore give up hopes so doubtful and remote, to search nearer to themselves for less lofty and more easy enjoyments.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

That was a falsehood, but then I was not going to let any man eclipse me on surprising adventures, merely for the want of a little invention.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

But as the earth doth weep, the sun being set, Each flower moisten'd like a melting eye; Even so the maid with swelling drops 'gan wet Her circled eyne, enforc'd by sympathy Of those fair suns, set in her mistress' sky, Who in a salt-wav'd ocean quench their light, Which makes the maid weep like the dewy night.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Yet the calmer reflection of a prince would surely suggest that the same acclamations were applied to every character and every reign: and if he had risen from a private rank, he might remember, that his own voice had been the loudest and most eager in applause, at the very moment when he envied the fortune, or conspired against the life, of his predecessor.
— 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

The cost of a gravel road, laid twelve feet wide and nine inches deep, and twenty-two feet from out to out, is from 250 to 325 pounds, and it is much more lasting, and more easily repaired than a plank-road.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

After the introduction of Gothic art the altar frequently became a lofty and most elaborate structure.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

I have now To paint a siege, wherein more men were slain, With deadlier engines and a speedier blow, Than in thy Greek gazette of that campaign; And yet, like all men else, I must allow, To vie with thee would be about as vain
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

They have all been employed with success, but the most accurate observations have been made with rape-dust, which has been longer and more extensively used than any of the others.
— from Elements of Agricultural Chemistry by Thomas Anderson

The stateliness of the castles and palaces where nobles dwell; the luxury of the details; the constantly maintained sumptuousness of the furniture; the “atmosphere” in which the fortunate owner of landed estates (a rich man before he was born) lives and moves easily and without friction; the habit of mind which never descends to calculate the petty workaday gains of existence; the leisure; the higher education attainable at a much earlier age; and lastly, the aristocratic tradition that makes of him a social force, for which his opponents, by dint of study and a strong will and tenacity of vocation, are scarcely a match-all these things should contribute to form a lofty spirit in a man, possessed of such privileges from his youth up; they should stamp his character with that high self-respect, of which the least consequence is a nobleness of heart in harmony with the noble name that he bears.
— from The Duchesse of Langeais by Honoré de Balzac

Atom bomb secrecy descended upon the Crusader Pictures lot and most especially upon Sound Stage Six, where the dream sequence for the psychological thriller, “Jolt!” was being filmed.
— from Jimsy and the Monsters by Walter J. Sheldon

The day is ended, the night is near— That’s how I look at my end.
— from The Island of Fantasy: A Romance by Fergus Hume

Being what he was, the successful military commander, with no rule of action, except to make everything further his own advancement, he began by destroying representative life, and making even the judges his creatures, at the same time that he entered on that career of war in which he never paused save for short breathing times.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

Mrs. Featherstone Osler died at the age of one hundred, in 1907, a woman very remarkable and greatly beloved; and her large family of sons, including Dr. William Osler of Oxford, Hon. Justice Osler of Toronto, Britton Bath Osler, the eminent lawyer, and Mr. Edmund Osler, the financier are all distinguished in public life.
— from The Story of the Toys by Mary Harris Toy Dodge

Enter Caesar, Anthony, Pompey, Lepidus, Agrippa, Mecenas, Enobarbus, Menes, with other Captaines.
— from Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

Man was binding himself into new and larger and more efficient combinations indeed, but at a price.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The epic, like the tragic, poetry of the Greeks lived and moved essentially in the heroic period; it was an altogether new and, at least in design, an enviably grand idea—to light up the present with the lustre of poetry.
— from The History of Rome, Book III From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States by Theodor Mommsen