And nightly, meadow-fairies, look you sing, Like to the Garter's compass, in a ring; Th' expressure that it bears, green let it be, More fertile-fresh than all the field to see; And 'Honi soit qui mal y pense' write In em'rald tufts, flow'rs purple, blue and white; Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery, Buckled below fair knighthood's bending knee.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

But we should express our meaning better, and with less risk of being misunderstood, if we said that we can have no knowledge of an object, which perfectly corresponds to an idea, although we may possess a problematical conception thereof.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

History and Meaning of Beowulf Concerning the history of Beowulf a whole library has been written, and scholars still differ too radically for us to express a positive judgment.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Many a time, charming ladies, hath it 429 been shown in our discourses what and how great is the power of love; natheless, for that medeemeth not it hath been fully spoken thereof (no, nor would be, though we should speak of nothing else for a year to come,) and that not only doth love bring lovers into divers dangers of death, but causeth them even to enter for dead into the abiding-places of the dead, it is my pleasure to relate to you a story thereof, over and above those which have been told, whereby not only will you apprehend the puissance of love, but will know the wit used by a worthy lady in ridding herself of two who loved her against her will.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

At that moment she crossed the road, as if to avoid the footsteps that she heard so close behind; and, without looking back, passed on even more rapidly.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

For alarming news at first, then the flight [of the country people] from the lands, brought intelligence that the legions of the Volscians had entered the borders, and were laying waste the Roman land in every direction.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

We went upstairs—it had been quite a fine house once, when it was anybody's business to keep it clean and fresh, and nobody's business to smoke in it all day—and into Mr. Turveydrop's great room, which was built out into a mews at the back and was lighted by a skylight.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

v [a4] be affected with leprosy.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He became acquainted with Lucien de Rubempre, both in his own circle of acquaintance and in the world of gallantry, and entertained him one evening in his box at a first performance at the Ambigu in 1821.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

“Yes, mother, this name which just escaped me in speaking of her; this name as strange as her beauty, and which, like the charm she is endowed with, belongs to no one else in the world, was the one her father called her by the first time I ever saw her—a thousand times more charming than the Cordelia of which she was the original—” Fleurange heard nothing more.—For some moments she felt ready to faint, and it was only a resolute effort of her will that kept her from falling to the ground, overcome by surprise and emotion.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

The angles, etc., to form the frames are assembled at the head of the building-berth, and when lying on skids are riveted to form the double bottom, frames and margin plates.
— from Two Centuries of Shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock by Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd.

'We want to get at the oppressed, to rouse them from their lethargy of ages, to show them that they too have rights, and that it is cowardly and wicked to starve in the midst of plenty; we want to come amongst them, not as preachers and dilettantists, but as workers like themselves, and how can this be done better than by going in their midst and sharing their life?'
— from A Girl Among the Anarchists by Isabel Meredith

She is young and beautiful, and will live many years.
— from The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy by Arnold Bennett

Most of the buildings opened on to the yard, but at one end of the range Parkinson discovered a door, secured only by a wooden latch.
— from Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah

It is as if a man should bring a wax light to feed a mighty conflagration, or set up an ant for exhibition on a camel's or an elephant's back.
— from The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 04 by of Samosata Lucian

"Don't know, but a whole lot of 'em.
— from The House Boat Boys; Or, Drifting Down to the Sunny South by St. George Rathborne

BY AARON W. LELAND, D.D. CHARLESTON, S. CAROLINA.
— from The National Preacher, Vol. 2 No. 7 Dec. 1827 Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers, Sermons XXVI. and XXVII. by Aaron W. (Aaron Whitney) Leland

Talking and gesticulating to the referee—dashing over and shaking his fist in the face of the masked man who leaned back calmly in his stool while his seconds sponged his mouth—then hurrying back and whispering like a soda fountain in the ear of the champion, who reclined against the ropes that stretched behind his seat, restoring himself by deep inhalations and smiling crookedly at his manager's ecstasy of anxiety.
— from Daisy Herself by Will E. Ingersoll