My grandchildren —As in most Indian languages, Cherokee kinship terms are usually specialized, and there is no single term for grandchild.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Se agapo is Greek, and it means I love thee.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Liking cannot, of course, grow into friendship over night as it might into love; the pleasing impression, even if retained, will lie perfectly passive and harmless in the mind, until new and different impressions follow to deepen the interest at first evoked and to remove its centre of gravity altogether from the senses.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The will asserts itself magnificently; images, like thunder-clouds, seem to cover half the firmament at once.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Even if a leopard entered the magic square, [ 79 ] it could do the Paliyan no harm, as its mouth is locked.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

“The count,” he added, “is madly in love with her, and allows her fifty doubloons a day.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Or if I should meet with a country called Azania, I may in like manner derive it from Az-An, a fountain sacred to the Sun; from whence the country was named.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

The first attempt to give an answer to these questions was made by Thomas Wright, an instrument maker in London, in a book published in 1750.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

He was holding up a lantern, and every eye was carefully, and in many instances laboriously, studying the text inscribed.
— from The Forfeit by Ridgwell Cullum

The all-influential Church had declared for him, and its most influential leader was his brother Henry of Winchester, who had staked his own honour in his support.
— from The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) by George Burton Adams

These cookies will keep fresh two weeks, and if milk is left out, a month.
— from The Story of Crisco by Marion Harris Neil

Letters to the newspapers, articles in magazines, improvised lectures and speeches, flew from him like chaff from the winnowing-machine.
— from The Truth about Opium Being a Refutation of the Fallacies of the Anti-Opium Society and a Defence of the Indo-China Opium Trade by William H. Brereton

"O, of course people have unpleasant moments which they get over," Marion answered; "but what I call unhappiness is to feel that one has made an irreparable mistake in life, and then to be suddenly shown the unattainable possibility."
— from With Edge Tools by H. C. (Hobart Chatfield) Chatfield-Taylor

An Indian mummy is likewise very interesting; this was found in the year 1814, near Glasgow, state of Kentucky, nine feet under ground, in a nitre cavern, two thousand yards distant from the entrance; it is in a sitting posture, and was enveloped with deer-skins and Indian cloth.
— from Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826. v. 1-2 by Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Bernhard

Out of doors there was a regular combination; deputations waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and gentlemen from all the leading Savings Banks in England, Scotland, and Ireland, met in London to concert those schemes of defence to which we have just alluded.
— from A History of Banks for Savings in Great Britain and Ireland by William Lewins