All songs of current lands come sounding round me, The German airs of friendship, wine and love, Irish ballads, merry jigs and dances, English warbles, Chansons of France, Scotch tunes, and o'er the rest, Italia's peerless compositions.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Le bonheur des peuples dépend et de la félicité 45 dont ils jouissent au dedans et du respect qu'ils inspirent au dehors —The welfare of nations depends at once on the happiness which they enjoy at home and the respect which they command abroad.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Nay, apart from vengeance, and with an eye to Public Salvation only, are there not still, in this Paris ( in round numbers ) 'thirty thousand Aristocrats,' of the most malignant humour; driven now to their last trump-card?—Be patient, ye Patriots: our New High Court, 'Tribunal of the Seventeenth,' sits; each Section has sent Four Jurymen; and Danton, extinguishing improper judges, improper practices wheresoever found, is 'the same man you have known at the Cordeliers.'
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I threw back my head in the agony of delight, and brayed like a donkey as I had done once before when fucking the luscious Frankland, and felt the three pointed entrance to her womb close upon and nibble at the point of my prick so delightfully, just as dear Ellen’s had done in the wood.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

This is true not only of lemon and of orange juice as demonstrated experimentally and clinically, but even of milk, which even after it has been dried and stored for months, may still possess marked curative value.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

And when the whole soul follows the philosophical principle, and there is no division, the several parts are just, and do each of them their own business, and enjoy severally the best and truest pleasures of which they are capable?
— from The Republic by Plato

Another lancer, observing this struggle, galloped up and tried to spear the major and relieve his officer; but the former, by a sudden jerk and desperate exertion, placed the French officer uppermost, who received the mortal thrust below his cuirass and continued lying upon the major’s body for near ten minutes, sword in hand.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

In the late afternoon they crossed the marshy flats beyond Newark and just after dusk emerged on the Jersey side of the Hudson.
— from The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader

Then she bowed very formally, and shook hands sedately when Doctor Gordon introduced James as Doctor Elliot, his new assistant, and carried off her part very well.
— from 'Doc.' Gordon by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

The second tradition is substantially the same as the first as far as the Mohammadan invasion is concerned, but Yâḳût here implies that Ukeidir dwelt in the first instance at Dûmat el Ḥîrah, and was accustomed to resort to Dûmat ej Jandal for the purposes of the chase, and he adds that Ukeidir named Dûmat ej Jandal after Dûmat el Ḥîrah.
— from Amurath to Amurath by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

Killed and wounded on board the United States frigate Constitution, Isaac Hull, Esquire, Captain, in the action with His Britannic Majesty's frigate Guerrière, James A. Dacres, Esquire, Captain, on the 20th of August, 1812: Killed : W. S. Bush, Lieutenant of Marines, and 6 seamen 7 Wounded : Lieutenant C. Morris, Master J. C. Aylwin, 4 seamen, 1 marine 7 — Tota
— from The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. (Joseph Florimond) Loubat

“It is enough if he setteth up his own judgement and denieth essential doctrines.—It were surely ill for any upon whom he might thrust his company—ill, I mean, for them to be seen with him often and in close talk.
— from The Witch by Mary Johnston

Your image is just as deeply engraven on my heart as it was the day we parted."
— from Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Furthermore, the corrupt, coarse, and vulgar language of the Negroes is largely responsible for the jumbled and distorted English spoken by many of the Southern whites.
— from The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various

Joe and Dave exchanged wise glances at this, and Mr. Kramer said, "Lucky you didn't know it, for a crowd of you boys jiggling and pushing and fooling, as boys do, would have gone over. Stand back there!"
— from The Academy Boys in Camp by Keene, S. F., Mrs.