Chapter II The Preaching About a quarter to seven there was an unusual appearance of excitement in the village of Hayslope, and through the whole length of its little street, from the Donnithorne Arms to the churchyard gate, the inhabitants had evidently been drawn out of their houses by something more than the pleasure of lounging in the evening sunshine.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

While Health endures, the latter Part of Life, in the Eye of Reason, is certainly the more eligible.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The property of love is to err.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

[29] Ferishta frequently notices the princes of Lahore in the early progress of Islamism, though he does not tell us the name of the tribe.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

If the law should protect a possessor of land in the enjoyment of water coming to it, it would do so because the use of the water was regarded as a part of the enjoyment of that land, and would by no means imply that it would do the same in the case just put of a way over land of another.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Why, only conceive her assurance in coming to ask me if I could not recommend her some young person to supply the place of Louise in the establishment of that old brute of a notary.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 by Eugène Sue

He pointed to that faint promise of light in the east, and Vincent Dering's eyes followed his hand with the doubtful look of one sick to death, as he watches the long weary night merge once more into another long weary day of certain pain.
— from The Hosts of the Lord by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Surely there is nothing sectional about this creed, and if it shall happen that the penalties of laws intended to enforce these rights fall here and not there it is not because the law is sectional, but because, happily, crime is local and not universal.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Very well, I answer, there is plenty of phosphate of lime in the earth; she can have all she wants.
— from The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children by Jane Andrews

My Dears, I have just heard that there is a man going up to Petrograd to-night who will put our letters in the Embassy bag, so there is some hope of this reaching you.
— from My War Experiences in Two Continents by S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan

I do not know what herb of the night it was that used sometimes to send out a penetrating odor late in the evening, after the dew had fallen, and the moon was high, and the cool air came up from the sea.
— from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

The first attempt to transfer the poem of Lucretius into the English language, was made by Evelyn, the celebrated author of the Sylva .
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II by John Colin Dunlop

"Charles," he said, was a "favourer of heretics," and he laid to his charge the prosperity of Lutheranism in the Empire.
— from History of the English People, Volume IV by John Richard Green

Then immediately the workman pours other lead into the empty moulds, and this he does until the work of melting the lead is finished.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola