and note,) the same writer concludes that though the passages above cited relative to the Uttara Kurus indicate a belief in the existence of a really existing country of that name in the far north, yet that the descriptions there given are to be taken as pictures of an ideal paradise, and not as founded on any recollections of the northern origin of the Kurus.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

And a brilliant idea therewith entered Chichikov’s head.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

This universal faith, this truly Catholic creed, is a belief in the efficacy of magic.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

"E quanto e da le stelle al basso inferno, Tanto e piu in su de la stellata spera" —Gier.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Every solution to a doubt, in so far as it is not a new error, every practical achievement not neutralised by a second maladjustment consequent upon it, every consolation not the seed of another greater sorrow, may be gathered together and built into this edifice.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The Germans also began, in the eighties, to take the quick gas coffee roaster seriously.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Next day I resolved not to go to the concert at all; but in the evening, the weather being fine, I made up my mind at last to go, determined that if it went as badly as at the rehearsal, I would go into the orchestra, take the violin out of the hands of M. La Haussaye, the first violin, and lead myself.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

And the gentleman does tap him presently, and with great discretion too; drawing off the evidence by little and little, and making it run quite clear and bright in the eyes of all present.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

We cannot, indeed, pay any of these reformed Jacobins the compliment ascribed to Octavius by the Romans, who found a blessing in the emperor's benevolent government, which compensated the injuries inflicted by the triumvir.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume I. by Walter Scott

The mortification of nature, the condemnation of all worldly and corporeal delights, not in their abuse, but in their essential and orderly use, the dishonouring of the body in regarding its beauty as only an incentive to sin, and in making a virtue of ugliness, squalor, and physical weakness—these things have the offensiveness of deadly sins to the sensuous consciousness of minds of the Hellenic type.
— from Poems of Giosuè Carducci, Translated with two introductory essays: I. Giosuè Carducci and the Hellenic reaction in Italy. II. Carducci and the classic realism by Giosuè Carducci

When a boy, in the early days in the lead mines of Wisconsin, I often met pioneers and heard them tell strange stories about hoop-snakes.
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various

Soon their helmets were cracked and their shields dented and carved and their hauberks in rags, and hardly could they see between the bars of their vizors for the sweat and blood in their eyes.
— from King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls by Henry Gilbert

Neither the Bourbons of the Elder Branch, nor those of the Younger, had had sufficient intelligence to ratify the appointment; but, in the eyes of France, it was, indeed, one of her maréchals who had just died.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas

We started early for Alert Bay and were fortunate in getting a tow across from the timber company's steam launch, and arrived at Alert Bay in the early forenoon.
— from Sport in Vancouver and Newfoundland by Rogers, John Godfrey, Sir

We are both in the evening of life; let us descend with even step to the grave; our dear friend Wellenberg will be our guide.
— from The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts by August Wilhelm Iffland

Protestants combating the Catholic idea of the real presence of the flesh and blood in the Eucharist—transubstantiation—have endeavored to prove that this doctrine was not of earlier origin than the eighth century.
— from A New Witness for God (Volume 1 of 3) by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

With an eerie and indescribable sensation of impending disaster upon me, I thrust my way through to a gray patch which marked a break in the elmen roof.
— from The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Sax Rohmer