A knowledge of his career suggested some such thought as this: “This man, naked as the day he was born, and war-club and spear in hand, has charged at the head of a horde of savages against other hordes of savages more than a generation and a half ago, and reveled in slaughter and carnage; has worshipped wooden images on his devout knees; has seen hundreds of his race offered up in heathen temples as sacrifices to wooden idols, at a time when no missionary’s foot had ever pressed this soil, and he had never heard of the white man’s God; has believed his enemy could secretly pray him to death; has seen the day, in his childhood, when it was a crime punishable by death for a man to eat with his wife, or for a plebeian to let his shadow fall upon the King—and now look at him; an educated Christian; neatly and handsomely dressed; a high-minded, elegant gentleman; a traveler, in some degree, and one who has been the honored guest of royalty in Europe; a man practiced in holding the reins of an enlightened government, and well versed in the politics of his country and in general, practical information.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Charming was rather dismayed at this command, but he answered: “Very well, Princess, I will fight this Galifron; I believe that he will kill me, but at any rate I shall die in your defense.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

My examinations were in Christian doctrine, arithmetic and reading, in San Juan de Letran College.
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

So much the better, thought I. On the vast Himalayan tops I shall be able to see more deeply into what has been revealed to me in Sudder Street; at any rate I shall see how the Himalayas display themselves to my new gift of vision.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

I suppose it was a necessary incident to wisdom in us both; but, some how or other, instead of being actor and regenerator in society, I became a piece of driftwood, and have been floating and eddying about, ever since.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

If that be sleep, then the dream is not on its program at all, rather it seems an unwelcome addition.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Mr. Macey, though he joined in the defence of Marner against all suspicions of deceit, also pooh-poohed the tinder-box; indeed, repudiated it as a rather impious suggestion, tending to imply that everything must be done by human hands, and that there was no power which could make away with the guineas without moving the bricks.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

You know her, at any rate, I suppose?" "Of course I know her.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Relativity and the Problem of Space Note: The fifth appendix was added by Einstein at the time of the fifteenth re-printing of this book; and as a result is still under copyright restrictions so cannot be added without the permission of the publisher.
— from Relativity : the Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein

Till he had a brush with Plumer, Got a bullet in his arm, And returned in sullen humour To the shelter of his farm.
— from Songs Of The Road by Arthur Conan Doyle

He gathered up what fragments he could; and again rapt in study, he again relapsed into his old wants.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

When his attempt at revolution in Spain failed some two years ago, Prim went into Belgium.
— from Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

(20) So at any rate it strikes me, seeing as I do the effects of what is unexpected—how, in the case of good things, the soul of man is filled to overflowing with joy, and again, in the case of things terrible, paralysed with amazement.
— from The Cavalry General by Xenophon

"Without me that is what they would all be by now, every one of them, James, George, and Hugh," he thought "But if I hadn't been lucky, so might I," he added, reprovingly, to himself, "though at any rate I should have tried to join a workhouse and not wasted my time cadging for matches in Staple Inn."
— from Poor Relations by Compton MacKenzie

One or more of his many ancestors had bequeathed to him a great pride and a regal inner sense, and though he would run when a club or brick was hurled at him, he could never cringe.
— from Trading Jeff and His Dog by Jim Kjelgaard

Its nest, again, has a curious point in its favour, for it is so well built—being a cup of mud strongly felted with moss and grass both inside and out—and, as a rule, in such a sheltered spot that it lasts through the winter, and mice are often glad, when their tenements underground become uncomfortable, to occupy them.
— from Birds of the wave and woodland by Phil Robinson

At any rate, if she was wrong about Helen she was not wrong about Catherine of Russia.
— from Gray youth: The story of a very modern courtship and a very modern marriage by Oliver Onions

[5] Others are found in some of the first vocabularies written for the purpose of teaching Latin, [6] which consist of lists of words grouped round subjects and arranged, as a rule, in sentence form.
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley

There was almost a rebellion in school over the imprisonment of the successful general who had so bravely fought the battles of the snow-fort.
— from The Boy Life of Napoleon, Afterwards Emperor of the French by Eugénie Foa