We love to augur well of our children, and we are continually regretting the flood of folly which overwhelms the hopes we would fain have rested on some chance phrase.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The cow is covered up with a crimson robe, except only the head and the neck, which are seen, overlaid with gold very thickly; and between the horns there is the disc of the sun figured in gold.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

During the same and next day the whole army reached Alexandria, and camped round about it; General Meade's Army of the Potomac had possession of the camps above, opposite Washington and Georgetown.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Bajan al camino real, cuando la Guardia civil se descuida, y roban lo que pueden.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

It seemed, in fact, a new development of the love of the beautiful, such as might have made him a poet, a painter, or a sculptor, and which was as completely refined from all utilitarian coarseness as it could have been in either of the fine arts.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

As for other acquaintances, there is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room; human beings, mere men and women, without furniture, without anything to offer you, who have ceased to count as anybody, present an embarrassing negation of reasons for wishing to see them, or of subjects on which to converse with them.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Or a Conjurer: Raise me a devill now, and let him play Quipassa o'th bels and bones.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

No man ever did or ever will become truly eloquent without being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

On the other hand the pure alkaloid crystallizes readily out of proof spirit and out of ether, whilst quinine does not crystallize out of either.
— from New York Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 1 (of 3), 1852 Published by Authority of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. by College of Pharmacy of the City of New York

These children were taught their lessons of spelling and reading by the mother, amongst her other multifarious tasks; for she was one of those who are called regular plodders.
— from Pearl-Fishing; Choice Stories from Dickens' Household Words; First Series by Charles Dickens

After walking for a quarter of a mile along a country road, they approached the outskirts of the town and began to cross it, employing unfrequented paths.
— from A Night Out by Edward Peple

Buffalmacco painted a fresco at Calcinaia, representing the Virgin with the Child in her arms.
— from Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner

She lifted the amulet in the form of a scarab, of which the base was in the shape of a heart, and which just touched the mark that looked like a crimson rose.
— from The Hawk of Egypt by Joan Conquest

" "Vogelsang says you haven't been in his place for months," added Converse, reproachfully.
— from The Sherrods by George Barr McCutcheon

[142] "The Cámalatá (called by Linnaeus, Ipomaea) is the most beautiful of its order, both in the color and form of its leaves and flowers; its elegant blossoms are 'celestial rosy red, Love's proper hue,' and have justly procured is the name of Cámalatá, or Love's creeper.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

Then came another crashing roar, and he was whirled over and over and round and round, like a feather in the water.
— from Within the Capes by Howard Pyle

Come and join us fair maid, they have brought you your dress, Leave your peacocks and doves, give our bride a caress; Red silk!
— from The Women of the Arabs by Henry Harris Jessup

A rose, a crimson rose!
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson