am I waiting till I am older mysef and of riper age?
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

For now the last of the fleet of ships was round the last low point we had headed; and the last green barge, straw-laden, with a brown sail, had followed; and some ballast-lighters, shaped like a child's first rude imitation of a boat, lay low in the mud; and a little squat shoal-lighthouse on open piles stood crippled in the mud on stilts and crutches; and slimy stakes stuck out of the mud, and slimy stones stuck out of the mud, and red landmarks and tidemarks stuck out of the mud, and an old landing-stage and an old roofless building slipped into the mud, and all about us was stagnation and mud.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

He bade workmen compete in imitating the shield, and, when all others refused to attempt it, Veturius Mamurius, one of the best workmen of the time, produced so admirable an imitation, and made all the shields so exactly alike, that even Numa himself could not tell which was the original.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

We had studied in the same school; been disciplined by the same preparatory philosophy, namely, the writings of Kant; we had both equal obligations to the polar logic and dynamic philosophy of Giordano Bruno; and Schelling has lately, and, as of recent acquisition, avowed that same affectionate reverence for the labours of Behmen, and other mystics, which I had formed at a much earlier period.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Usually her repentance came quickly after one rash deed, but now Tom and Lucy had made her so miserable, she was glad to spoil their happiness,–glad to make everybody uncomfortable.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Do you know the part I played in that affair, or rather the part they made me play?
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

And how many thousands are there among the lowest classes in every country, who, without being in a legal sense malefactors in any other respect, because in every other quarter their aggressions meet with resistance, indulge the utmost habitual excesses of bodily violence towards the unhappy wife, who alone, at least of grown persons, can neither repel nor escape from [Pg 64] their brutality; and towards whom the excess of dependence inspires their mean and savage natures, not with a generous forbearance, and a point of honour to behave well to one whose lot in life is trusted entirely to their kindness, but on the contrary with a notion that the law has delivered her to them as their thing, to be used at their pleasure, and that they are not expected to practise the consideration towards her which is required from them towards everybody else.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

I said but little; Jelyotte had prepared everything; I was unwilling either to approve of or censure what he had done; and notwithstanding I had assumed the air of an old Roman, I was, in the midst of so many people, as bashful as a schoolboy.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

These are the angles of reflection .
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

He saw this conception as He saw the conception of other races and peoples, all of which had their tribal or national gods, which loved that particular tribe or people, and which hated all other races or nationalities.
— from Mystic Christianity; Or, The Inner Teachings of the Master by William Walker Atkinson

There was one thing sure: Jennie Stone was a delighted host when Helen arrived in New York a few days ahead of Ruth and Wonota.
— from Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest; Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies by Alice B. Emerson

He had also received the two veteran divisions of the Sixteenth Corps, under General A. J. Smith, long absent and long expected; and he had drawn from Chattanooga and Decatur (Alabama) the divisions of Steedman and of R. S. Granger.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

In and out, Round about, Jack dodges the Giant apace, Round the castle wall, That the guests may all Enjoy the stirring chase.
— from Jack the Giant Killer by Percival Leigh

Then, to read a book will be to know all of reality that is in it.
— from Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class; and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mary Tyler Peabody Mann

The sign of the Sun occurs in endless combinations, often capricious, without any other reason than a whim, and an alliteration, as the Sun and Sawyers ; the Sun and Sword ; the Sun and Sportsman ; or quartered with other signs, as the Sun and Anchor ; Dial ; Falcon ; Last ; Horseshoe , &c. All these, and innumerable others of the same sort, occur among the London public-house signs of the present day.
— from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten

The most serious of these invasions was the one in July, 1322, and of the effects of this and other raids we have an authentic record in the Nonarum Inquisitiones , taken (for North Lancashire) in 15 Edward III.
— from A History of Lancashire by Henry Fishwick

Protestants little know what they are doing when they propose to accept the aid of Rome in the work of Sunday exaltation.
— from The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White

There was a general scene of confusion, some of the men running after him afoot, others rushing off to where their horses stood tethered in a clump of trees.
— from The Winning of the Golden Spurs by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman