When we left Boston we supposed that it was to be a voyage of eighteen months, or two years, at most; but upon arriving on the coast, we learned something more of the trade, and found that in the scarcity of hides, which was yearly greater and greater, it would take us a year, at least, to collect our own cargo, beside the passage out and home; and that we were also to collect a cargo for a large ship belonging to the same firm, which was soon to come on the coast, and to which we were to act as tender.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

The door lanterns shed brilliant rays from where they were suspended; while on either side the lanterns, of uniform colours, propped upright, emitted a lustrous light as bright as day.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

When thy little heart doth wake, Then the dreadful light shall break.
— from Songs of Innocence, and Songs of Experience by William Blake

The bishops whom he summoned, in his last illness, to the palace of Nicomedia, were edified by the fervor with which he requested and received the sacrament of baptism, by the solemn protestation that the remainder of his life should be worthy of a disciple of Christ, and by his humble refusal to wear the Imperial purple after he had been clothed in the white garment of a Neophyte.
— 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

At this sale, of course I found myself in company with the old broken-down horses—some lame, some broken-winded, some old, and some that I am sure it would have been merciful to shoot.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Among other things told my Lady how my Lady Fanshaw is fallen out with her only for speaking in behalf of the French, which my Lady wonders at, they having been formerly like sisters, but we see there is no true lasting friendship in the world.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

2. Loki surprised by, 226 L Læding (lā′ding).
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

che i giganti non fan con le sue braccia: vedi oggimai quant'esser dee quel
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Hypochondriack, The , iv. 179, n. 5. HYPOCRISY, little suspected by Johnson, i. 418, n. 3; middle state between it and conviction, iv. 122; no man a hypocrite in his pleasures, iv.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. by James Boswell

It had slipped to the floor and now lay there—a low, soft black hat of a kind formerly much worn by young Southerners of the countryside,—especially on occasions when there was a spur of heat in their mood and going,—much the same kind that one sees on the heads of students in Rome in winter; light, warm, shaping itself readily to breezes from any quarter, to be doffed or donned as comfortable and negligible.
— from The Bride of the Mistletoe by James Lane Allen

The first of these difficulties was left by the treaty in some obscurity; but, from the stress laid on the abandonment by the Catholics of the lands secularized before the Convention of Passau, it would seem that they might fairly urge that they had never abandoned their claims to lands which at that date had not been secularized.
— from The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner

"In un boschetto trovai pastorella, Più che la stella bella al mio parere, Capegli avea biondetti e ricciutelli."
— from Women of the Romance Countries by John R. (John Robert) Effinger

and though in this case again there might be some who would prefer the manners of a decent English gentleman to those of the present Shah, that is no reason why the latter should be regarded so ignominiously.
— from Airy Fairy Lilian by Duchess

It is well worthy of your consideration whether the losses sustained by the officers and crew in this unfortunate affair should not be reimbursed to them.
— from State of the Union Addresses by John Tyler