Paris pipes round it; multitudinous; ever higher, to the note of the whirlwind.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Socialists are particularly ridiculous in my eyes, because of their absurd optimism concerning the "good man" who is supposed to be waiting in their cupboard, and who will come into being when the present order of society has been overturned and has made way for natural instincts.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

For an ideal aristocracy we should not look to Plato's Republic, for that Utopia is avowedly the ideal only for fallen and corrupt states, since luxury and injustice, we are told, first necessitated war, and the guiding idea of all the Platonic regimen is military efficiency.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The silence of midnight, to speak truly, though apparently a paradox, rung in my ears.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Whitcher, Rev. W. T. Providence, R. I. M. E. Larceny, lying; caught in act, arrested, fined, confessed, resigned.
— from Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada by M. E. Billings

Patua rice is more esteemed in Europe, and is of very superior qualify; it is small-grained, rather long and wiry, and is remarkably white.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

The stately movement of the versification, the accumulated grandeur of the imagery, the vein of tender and solemn pathos, and the spirit of cheerful trust at the close, which mark this extraordinary poem, render it more effective, in an ethical point of view, than volumes of exhortation; while, regarded as a work of art, the unity of purpose with which its leading thought is presented under a variety of aspects, gives it a completeness and symmetry which remove the force of the objection to which we have alluded.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XI.—April, 1851—Vol. II. by Various

Some of the phrases she was in the habit of using during my last nursing at Wentworth Place ring in my ears.
— from Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

Words of praise rang in my ears, and I admit that they flattered my heart too; it was my wife who was the object of universal admiration.
— from Le Cocu (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVIII) by Paul de Kock

At night, long after the camp slept, I lay awake with the echo of the graveside "last post" ringing in my ears, and, because of the appetite for effect that afflicts us in weak moments, I was teased and worried by a sense of incompleteness.
— from The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 by Filson Young

She leaped to her feet in an instant and caught me by the wrist, looking with an eager and passionate regard into my eyes.
— from The Standard Bearer by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

thy name to me, Soft-syllabled like some sweet melody, Familiar is since adolescent years As household phrases ringing in my ears; Its measured cadence sounding to and fro From the dim corridors of long ago.
— from Poems Vol. IV by Hattie Howard

How important my absence from Paris seemed to me; and how Paris rushed into my eyes!—Paris—public ball-rooms, cafés , the models in the studio and the young girls painting, and Marshall, Alice and Julien.
— from Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore

The Sioux, jumping upon their ponies, sent forth a savage war whoop that the desolate prairie returned in moaning echoes, and Dick could not refrain from a reply.
— from The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler