Come then, and from thy vast, luxuriant stores, in long antiquity piled up, pour forth the rich profusion.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The victory of a moral ideal is achieved by the same "immoral" means as any other victory: violence, lies, slander, injustice.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When the last young girl has arrived, Mrs. Toplofty goes into the theater herself (she does not bother to wait for any boys), and in this one instance she very likely sits in a stage box so as to "keep her eye on them," and with her she has two or three of her own friends.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

As we trotted across the Plain of Jezreel, we met half a dozen Digger Indians (Bedouins) with very long spears in their hands, cavorting around on old crowbait horses, and spearing imaginary enemies; whooping, and fluttering their rags in the wind, and carrying on in every respect like a pack of hopeless lunatics.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Sections were set up for posters, advertising, "Four Minute Men" (volunteer local speakers in all American communities), films, American minority groups and the foreign-language press, women's organizations, information bureaus, syndicated features, and cartoons.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

In four minutes it had cleared the four vertical leagues separating it from the surface of the ocean, and after emerging like a flying fish, it fell back into the sea, making the waves leap to prodigious heights.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

From this and other reasons (although I was quite happily fix'd) I made no very long stay in the South.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Sometimes I feel like I’m not going to live very long, so I’m just enjoying every day of this fall.”
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

——, Vulcani ( La Solfaterra ), i. 365 .
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

They are produced by the passions, and are perhaps very little superior, in point of articulation or significancy, to the sounds which express the wants of the brutes.
— from Dissertations on the English Language, with Notes, Historical and Critical; to Which is Added, by Way of Appendix, an Essay on a Reformed Mode of Spelling, With Dr. Franklin's Arguments on that Subject by Noah Webster

If, in addition to this, the peace of Society can, on every specious pretence, be disturbed by the licentious clamours or turbulent effusions arising from the ill-regulated passions of vulgar life, surely it becomes an interesting inquiry, worthy the attention of every intelligent member of the Community, from what source spring these numerous inconveniences; and where is a remedy to be found for so many accumulated evils ?
— from A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and Misdemeanors by which Public and Private Property and Security are, at Present, Injured and Endangered: and Suggesting Remedies for their Prevention by Patrick Colquhoun

If any human being in the world could think of her so, above all he , the most glorious—she knew the poem, though unsigned, came from him—then after all she was not in such a bad way; then perhaps her life had not taken a permanent hold upon her; probably her innermost being had remained intact, and values lay strewn in her soul which needed only to be used in order to sanctify and bless herself and others.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

They have very lately sat in the Colchester Committee as many, within one or two, days successively as have been spent in this trial interruptedly in the course of two years.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

I never believed much in that sort of thing anyhow, and then, too, I couldn't find out that there had ever been anything wrong about the house itself, except as the people who had lived there were said to have seen and heard queer things in the vacant lot, so I thought you might be able to get along, especially as you didn't look like a man who was timid, and the house was such a bargain as I never handled before.
— from The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

"On a cold and dreary morning, in the month of January, 1837, I went to the capitol of the United States, at a very early hour, to write out a very long speech I had reported for an honorable gentleman, who wished to look well in print; and on entering the hall of the House of Representatives, I found Mr. Adams, as early as the hour was, in his seat, busily engaged in writing.
— from Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States With the Eulogy Delivered Before the Legislature of New York by William Henry Seward

And Peggy's momentary discontent vanished like snow in sunshine at the enthralling prospect of several new projects which her ingenious friend intended carrying out, and of the picnics, woodland scrambles, and other delights which the holidays would bring in their train.
— from A Terrible Tomboy by Angela Brazil

The principal work for the study of the Cabbalah is the Zohar , which is written in a very lofty style in the Syrian language.
— from Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography. by Solomon Maimon