Once, in 1887, after a protracted performance of charades in the house of Luke Doyle, Kimmage, he had awaited with patience the apparition of the diurnal phenomenon, seated on a wall, his gaze turned in the direction of Mizrach, the east.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Such a selection must be based on a sifting of matters which are necessary and important for a man to know in general, and also for him to know in a particular profession or calling.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

"When last I was here, the national schoolmaster used to accompany his children by a primitive performance of common chords.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Where we have to do with the magnitude (of the perfection) of a thing, we can discover no determinate conception, except that which comprehends all possible perfection or completeness, and it is only the total (omnitudo) of reality which is completely determined in and through its conception alone.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

" Then the old woman took the cauldron in which she was going to wash his feet, and poured plenty of cold water into it, adding hot till the bath was warm enough.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

And now, by the expressive way in which she cleared her throat, and waited for all minor subjects (such as caps and turbans) to be cleared off the course, we knew she had something very particular to relate, when the due pause came—and I defy any people possessed of common modesty to keep up a conversation long, where one among them sits up aloft in silence, looking down upon all the things they chance to say as trivial and contemptible compared to what they could disclose, if properly
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

compuesto,-a , arranged; p. p. of componer .
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

And here I shall make a remark, which the reader must bear well in mind in the course of the following considerations, to wit, that not every cognition a priori, but only those through which we cognize that and how certain representations (intuitions or conceptions) are applied or are possible only a priori; that is to say, the a priori possibility of cognition and the a priori use of it are transcendental.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Hence we get the world-wide Slang term “tuft-hunter,” one whose pride it is to be acquainted with scions of the nobility—a sycophantic race unfortunately not confined to any particular place or climate, nor peculiar to any age or either sex.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

The room was in a public passage of communication indispensable to all in the chateau, and in consequence, excellently well adapted for watching those who passed through it.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 05 by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

I said: "But such an investigation and possible prosecution of corporations whose prosperity or destruction affects the comfort not only of stockholders but of millions of wage earners, employees, and associated tradesmen must necessarily tend to disturb the confidence of the business community, to dry up the now flowing sources of capital from its places of hoarding, and produce a halt in our present prosperity that will cause suffering and strained circumstances among the innocent many for the faults of the guilty few.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

But I am going to make a little change in my life—to go out as a teacher of freehand drawing and practical perspective, of course I mean on a comparatively humble scale, because I have not been specially educated for that profession.
— from Wessex Tales by Thomas Hardy

This was a peculiar phase of cowboy character.
— from The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Edgar Beecher Bronson

in 1610, was supposed by many to be a plan of this very nature, for enforcing a general and permanent peace on Christendom, by means of an armed intervention; and no sooner had it partially transpired through traitorous evidence, or through angry suspicion, than his own assassination followed.
— from Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey

As they were landing they learned that Philoctetes was not dead, for his dismal old cries of pain, ototototoi, ai, ai; pheu, pheu; ototototoi , came echoing from a cave on the beach.
— from Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the Sacker of Cities by Andrew Lang

But while compelled by our narrow limits to pass by, with a hasty word of mention, the enterprise which raised the Venetians and Dutch to the rank of leading powers in Europe, and which conferred the treasures of Africa and remotest India upon the Portuguese nation, the rise of the Spanish power in the new world must be noticed more fully, as opening a new and peculiar phase of civilization to our view.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 6, December 1852 by Various