Childhood begins life with these notions, and knighthood also; but, as life grows larger and its relations many-sided, the early faith seeks sanction from higher authority and more rational sources for its own justification, satisfaction and development.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

We are not therefore surprized to find that Plato himself has nowhere clearly explained his doctrine of ideas; or that his school in a later generation, like his contemporaries Glaucon and Adeimantus, were unable to follow him in this region of speculation.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Then he led us to a long gallery, like a dorture, where he showed us all along the one side (for the other side was but wall and window), seventeen cells, very neat ones, having partitions of cedar wood.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

A little good living would have made this youth plump and swaggering.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

He caught hold of me, hugged me, tried to pull me away, crying to my assailant, ‘Let go, let go, it's my father, forgive him!’
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I think it’s too bad to make a little girl like me or Betsy do such hard work; and I think her father and brothers must make holes in their horrid stockings on purpose, I do.
— from Tell Me a Story by Mrs. Molesworth

Jumbo was awfully sorry, and grieved over my absence like a little girl left without its mamma in the company of strangers.
— from Autobiography of Matthew Scott, Jumbo's Keeper; Also Jumbo's Biography, by the same Author by Matthew Scott

There were curtains reflected in each mirror, and little glowing lamps, so cunningly arranged that it was not possible to guess which were real and which were not.
— from King--of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure by Talbot Mundy

Take Fennell and Angelica of each one handfull, the leaves in Summer, roots in Winter, sliced figgs twelve, but if the body be bound, twenty at least, green Licorice if you can, two or three good sticks scraped and sliced, Anniseed cleaved and bruised, two good spoonfulls, two or three Parsley roots scraped, and the pith taken out, and twenty leaves of Foale-foot, boyle all these in three pints of Hysop water, to a pint and halfe, then straine it out into a glasse, putting to it as much white Sugar -candy as will make it sweet, drink hereof, being warmed, five spoonfulls at a time, first in the morning, and last in the evening, taking heed that you eat nor drink any thing two howres before nor after. Of Violets.
— from A Book of Fruits and Flowers by Anonymous

There were Yancey and Lew Garrow, lean and sun-scorched.
— from The Lost Wagon by Jim Kjelgaard

On a reading table a pencil and tablet with a half-written page lay beside a large glass lamp.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration

She couldn't do a thing about the pipe cleaners, but she made up her mind that since she was held responsible when a letter got lost, she would also have the responsibility of changing the filing system.
— from The Knack of Managing by Lewis K. Urquhart

"Hopewell," ill-suited of name, was the home of a Narragansett Robinson famed for good cheer, for refinement and luxury, and for a lovely garden, laid out with cost and care and filled with rare shrubs and flowers.
— from Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle

"O'Donoghue had passed and was gone," she said, "but he always leaves good luck behind him, and he left the good luck with me.
— from Fairies and Folk of Ireland by William Henry Frost

An insignificant incident, the appearance of a little green light in the distant horizon, sufficed to divert his attention from these gloomy ideas.
— from The Fourth Estate, vol. 1 by Armando Palacio Valdés