The whole court jumped about as they had seen the king do the day before, but the princess lay on the sofa, and would not say a single word.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The use of linguistic studies and methods to halt the human mind on the level of the attainments of the past, to prevent new inquiry and discovery, to put the authority of tradition in place of the authority of natural facts and laws, to reduce the individual to a parasite living on the secondhand experience of others—these things have been the source of the reformers' protest against the preëminence assigned to language in schools.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Pepin Lehalleur (of the Seine-et-Marne).
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

It is by this service chiefly that he contributes indirectly to support the productive labour of the society, and to increase the value of its annual produce.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The miller saw the peasant lying on the straw, and asked, "What is that fellow doing there?"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

So that they, the people least open to suspicion in the world of favouring us, the most strict and most zealous that can be named for their law and their prophets, have kept the books incorrupt.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Young Mr. So-and-So would entertain a party of friends at a private luncheon on the sixteenth, at Sherry's.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

It is indeed a remarkable fact to see so many of the same plants living on the snowy regions of the Alps or Pyrenees, and in the extreme northern parts of Europe; but it is far more remarkable, that the plants on the White Mountains, in the United States of America, are all the same with those of Labrador, and nearly all the same, as we hear from Asa Gray, with those on the loftiest mountains of Europe.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Dimidiation was not always effected by conjunction down the palar line, other partition lines of the shield being occasionally, though very rarely, employed in this manner.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

many-tongued; rumored; publicly rumored, currently rumored, currently reported; rife, current, floating, afloat, going about, in circulation, in every one's mouth, all over the town. in progress; live; on the spot; in person.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

All the people left on this side were already gathered there.
— from The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest by Hulbert Footner

That wise people laid out the streets as was most convenient, tortuous and narrow at Cordova or broad as a king's highway in Ronda.
— from The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

But it soon became sufficiently convincing that these elements of education did not naturally assimilate themselves to the scientific life of Heidelberg, but were only artificially engrafted; that Heidelberg has not its mission to represent in itself the spirit of modern science and art; but the simple vocation of working out education and accomplishment suited to the necessities and interests of the practical life of the state and of civil offices, in both their wider and their more circumscribed spheres.
— from The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt

But such people seldom ask themselves if, while they lived it, they reached the highest possible level of the sex-life.
— from Married Love: A New Contribution to the Solution of Sex Difficulties by Marie Carmichael Stopes

[503] The sums thus realized were considerable enough to tempt the cupidity of the courtiers for, May 9, 1514, we find the king making over to four of his ushers the penalties levied on the sons of Alonso Gallo of Toledo, and on April 1st
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

He also gave many public lectures on the subject, beginning with that at the Royal Institution on March 1, 1861—one of the most successful of the many he delivered there.
— from The Right Honourable Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe P.C., D.C.L., F.R.S. A Biographical Sketch by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe

We're trying to agree on the precise location of this space object.
— from The Egyptian Cat Mystery: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

It would seem that some impenetrable veil lies over the history and present life of the Society, yet on both sides its judges refuse to recognise obscurity.
— from A Candid History of the Jesuits by Joseph McCabe

His boat slid in towards the froth-swept stone, and when she swung up with the swell two men sprang out of her and floundered along a perilous ledge over the slimy weed.
— from In the Misty Seas: A Story of the Sealers of Behring Strait by Harold Bindloss

Confusion flushed her face as she made this proposition, but in the pale, pearly lustre of the summer starlight, it was not visible.
— from Vashti; Or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans