Manu as a legislator is identified with the Cretan Minos, as progenitor of mankind with the German Mannus: “Celebrant carminibus antiquis, quod unum apud illos memoriæ et annalium genus est, Tuisconem deum terra editum, et filium Mannum, originem gentis conditoresque.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

As it is the custom in these parts to give a horse a gallon or so of cold water whenever he is in a foam with heat, we halted for that purpose, at a log inn in the wood, far removed from any other residence.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

I forced him to eat, and after luncheon I induced him to lie down, but he could not sleep.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

At the top of these steps he came plump upon a sight that took his breath away and chilled his blood—" "A tall figure, all in white with a veil over its face and a lamp in its wasted hand," went on Meg.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

For it would not be maintained, at least by the more judicious thinkers of this school, that such axioms are always to be found with proper exactness of form by mere observation of the common moral reasonings of men; but rather that they are at least implied in these reasonings, and that when made explicit their truth is self-evident, and must be accepted at once by an intelligent and unbiassed mind.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Whatever peripheral events fall in with the central impulse are accordingly lost in its energy and felt to be not so much peripheral and accidental as inwardly grounded, being, like the stages of a prosperous dialectic, spontaneously demanded and instantly justified when they come.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

And at last, in its curved and imperceptible fall, the sun sank low, and from glowing white changed to a dull red without rays and without heat, as if about to go out suddenly, stricken to death by the touch of that gloom brooding over a crowd of men.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

I had fancied it was down nearer the Circus, or round the corner in Oxford Street, or even in Holborn; always over the way and a little inaccessible it had been, with something of the mirage in its position; but here it was now quite indisputably, and the fat end of Gip's pointing finger made a noise upon the glass.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The process presupposes (a) a clear and just apprehension of the nature of that end—such as the Ethics itself endeavours to supply; (b) a correct perception of the conditions of action, (a) at least is impossible except to a man whose character has been duly formed by discipline; it arises only in a man who has acquired moral virtue.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

He says, [300] after speaking of the prehensile foot, common without a single exception to all the apes and lemurs, "It is difficult to see why the prehensile power should have been taken away" by the mere operation of Natural Selection.
— from On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart

Geography ::French Southern and Antarctic Lands Location: southeast and east of Africa, islands in the southern Indian Ocean, some near Madagascar and others about equidistant between Africa, Antarctica, and Australia; note - French Southern and Antarctic Lands include Ile Amsterdam, Ile Saint-Paul, Iles Crozet, Iles Kerguelen, Bassas da India, Europa Island, Glorioso Islands, Juan de Nova Island, and Tromelin Island in the southern Indian Ocean, along with the French-claimed sector of Antarctica, "Adelie Land"; the US does not recognize the French claim to "Adelie Land" Geographic coordinates: Ile Amsterdam (Ile Amsterdam et Ile Saint-Paul): 37 50 S, 77 32 E Ile Saint-Paul (Ile Amsterdam et Ile Saint-Paul): 38 72 S, 77 53 E Iles Crozet: 46 25 S, 51 00 E Iles Kerguelen: 49 15 S, 69 35 E Bassas da India (Iles Eparses): 21 30 S, 39 50 E Europa Island (Iles Eparses): 22 20 S, 40 22 E Glorioso Islands (Iles Eparses): 11 30 S, 47 20 E Juan de Nova Island (Iles Eparses): 17 03 S, 42 45 E Tromelin Island (Iles Eparses): 15 52 S, 54 25 E Map references: Antarctic Region Area: Ile Amsterdam (Ile Amsterdam et
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

I shouldn't at all like it if I mightn't call you Carl.
— from The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy by Arnold Bennett

She was helped to bed, and although laid in it with her head among the pillows, she could not sleep.
— from A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Wood, the chronicler of the expedition, [Footnote: "The Narrative of L.K. Wood," published many years after, and largely incorporated in Bledsoe's "History of the Indian Wars of Northern California," is the source of most of the incidents relating to Gregg's party embraced in this chapter.] and Buck went in different directions to find water.
— from A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Murdock

3 3: As regards the spider's curative powers, Mr. Thistleton Dyer, in his "Folklore of Shakespeare," tells us that only "a few years ago a lady in Ireland was famous for curing ague with a large house-spider swallowed alive, thickly coated with treacle.
— from Peeps at Heraldry by Phoebe Allen

The point of view, which was that of an exceedingly refined and carefully guarded Hedonism, was in a way and at least in its formulation novel.
— from A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury