So King Alarka gave his eyes, And gained a mansion in the skies.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

But as the distinctions of rank are obliterated, as men differing in education and in birth meet and mingle in the same places of resort, it is almost impossible to agree upon the rules of good breeding.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Anyone who did not know her and her circle, who had not heard all the utterances of the women expressive of commiseration, indignation, and amazement, that she should show herself in society, and show herself so conspicuously with her lace and her beauty, would have admired the serenity and loveliness of this woman without a suspicion that she was undergoing the sensations of a man in the stocks.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The gestures he makes are those which this ancestor made in the same circumstances.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

But if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, Márya Dmítrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions—the least effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp her foot—which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual severity.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

(*To take away all such mutual grievances, injuries and wrongs, i.e. such as attend men in the state of nature, there was no way but only by growing into composition and agreement amongst themselves, by ordaining some kind of govemment public, and by yielding themselves subject thereunto, that unto whom they granted authority to rule and govem, by them the peace, tranquillity and happy estate of the rest might be procured.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

[20] There should be three in the first line, as many in the second, and a large place in the third, near the center of the state.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Compiegne de Weil, Ludwig, lived at Paris, and later at Metz, in the second half of the seventeenth century.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

The juice of Onions is good for either scalding or burning by fire, water, or gunpowder, and used with vinegar, takes away all blemishes, spots and marks in the skin: and dropped in the ears, eases the pains and noise of them.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

I walked about the isle like a restless spectre, separated from all it loved, and miserable in the separation.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“Here was a long pause, the old man looking at me intently to see if the wheels in my head were working, and I tried at the same time to discover if the machinery in his was all right.
— from Thirty Years on the Frontier by Robert McReynolds

I had no authority to superintend that armament, and the persons who had authority were so far from giving me what I thought necessary that M. de Chaumont even refused, among other things, to allow me irons to secure the prisoners of war.
— from The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. (Joseph Florimond) Loubat

I am glad they did not accept my invitation to supper, for I should have felt obliged to ask you to join them.
— from Rodney, the Overseer by Harry Castlemon

Phocas was soon seen to be worse than Maurice, and one conspiracy after another was begun in the Hippodrome and ended by a massacre in the streets.
— from Constantinople: The Story of the Old Capital of the Empire by William Holden Hutton

No woman, during menstruation, or with any malady in the sexual organs, to receive visits from a man.
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger

This quality of "the stroke," by the by, if we stop to analyze for a moment, is the stroke that comes straight from the heart, tingling up the spinal column, down the arm, and straight to the finger-tips.
— from Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914 by Francis Hopkinson Smith

In spite of the rain, something impelled the young man, when he reached the broken-down gate of Durley Dene, to pause for a moment in the shadow of the trees, and meditate upon the strange business
— from The House of Strange Secrets: A Detective Story by A. Eric Bayly

The other gave no sign of recognition, however, but gravely went through the elaborate messages from his august master, inspected the ship with solemn interest and expressed not only surprise, but some doubts when told of the time she had made between America and Gibraltar.
— from The Pool of Stars by Cornelia Meigs

Possessing a readily receptive and capacious mind, Dr. Tutwiler was the peer in point of scholarship of any man in the South when he issued from the university of Virginia.
— from Makers and Romance of Alabama History by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Riley

But if that other equal body be likewise in motion, and moving in the same direction, after contact they will move with reciprocal velocities.
— from A History of Science — Volume 2 by Edward Huntington Williams