Daily she yoked the oxen, and brought down from the bush fuel to maintain our fires, which she felled and chopped up with her own hands.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Opinion and knowledge, then, having distinct objects, must also be distinct faculties.
— from The Republic by Plato

Yājnavalkya describes the Ātman as the “inner guide” ( antaryāmin ): “ Who is in all beings, different from all beings, who guides all beings within, that is thy Self, the inward guide, immortal. ”
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

In one place one hundred and forty English, after being driven for many miles stark naked, and in the most severe weather, were all murdered on the same spot, some being hanged, others burnt, some shot, and many of them buried alive; and so cruel were their tormentors, that they would not suffer them to pray before they robbed them of their miserable existence.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The grinding and powdering of coffee should be done just before it is wanted, for if the whole coffee seeds quickly lose their aroma, how much more quickly will the aroma be dissipated from coffee which has been reduced to a fine powder?
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

So that as 64/87 kinds of seeds germinated after an immersion of twenty-eight days; and as 18/94 distinct species with ripe fruit (but not all the same species as in the foregoing experiment) floated, after being dried, for above twenty-eight days, we may conclude, as far as anything can be inferred from these scanty facts, that the seeds of 14/100 kinds of plants of any country might be floated by sea-currents during twenty-eight days, and would retain their power of germination.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

The superior worth of simplicity of life, the enervating and demoralising effect of the trammels and hypocrisies of artificial society, are ideas which have never been entirely absent from cultivated minds since Rousseau wrote; and they will in time produce their due effect, though at present needing to be asserted as much as ever, and to be asserted by deeds, for words, on this subject, have nearly exhausted their power.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

I was always being disappointed, for I got none.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

You know I've always been dying for one—I don't see how I've lived all these years without it."
— from A Modern Chronicle — Volume 04 by Winston Churchill

When I have felt it and held it, and smelled it and loved it, it shall stand by the grandfather clock in the hall, and it will make a beautiful decoration for to-morrow's festivities.
— from Dimbie and I—and Amelia by Mabel Barnes-Grundy

They were ridiculed and scorned by the courtiers, who despised the rusticity of their manners, and by the nobles of newer creation, who, conscious of their own wealth, contemned the poverty of these ancient but decayed families.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume I. by Walter Scott

But the first was too good a marksman to miss his aim; for as the savages kept near one another, a little behind in a line, he fired, and hit two of them directly; the foremost was killed outright, being shot in the head; the second, which was the runaway Indian, was shot through the body, and fell, but was not quite dead; and the third had a little scratch in the shoulder, perhaps by the same ball that went through the body of the second; and being dreadfully frightened, though not so much hurt, sat down upon the ground, screaming and yelling in a hideous manner.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe

It has an aisleless church, interesting only for (1) a good 15th-cent. screen, (2) a font, of which the bowl and base date from the 13th cent.
— from Somerset by J. H. (Joseph Henry) Wade

Much information may also be derived from Pontoppidan's Natural History of Norway , who fails not to people her seas with this amphibious race.
— from Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 3 (of 3) Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Walter Scott

"Certainly, there could not be in all the world a better, dearer father, than theirs.
— from Elsie's Kith and Kin by Martha Finley

Polikéï also woke up, and bending down from the stove tried to see who the muzhíks were.
— from The Invaders, and Other Stories by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Great quantities of this shell are brought daily from the Red Sea to Jerusalem.
— from Select Specimens of Natural History Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Volume 5. by James Bruce