A robe Antinous gives of shining dyes, The varying hues in gay confusion rise Rich from the artist's hand!
— from The Odyssey by Homer

The practical child will see, observe, properly understand, and reproduce a group of things that the unpractical child has not even observed.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

They would have lynched the manager of the Free Speech for exercising the right of free speech if they had found him as quickly as they would have hung a rapist, and glad of the excuse to do so.
— from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

In fact, in memory of former days he had brought, carefully wrapped up in paper, a few almonds and raisins and grapes, obtained somehow from a countryman, for his own little fund was dispersed.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

So they talked, often about themselves, sometimes of philosophy and religion, and life as respectively a game or a mystery.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

To obtain, at any rate, a glimpse of them it is necessary in the first place to call to mind the truth established by modern psychology that unconscious phenomena play an altogether preponderating part not only in organic life but also in the operations of the intelligence.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

He was one of the United Empire Loyalist refugees, and received a grant of land on the Humber, near the site of the modern village of Weston.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

These old sailors, accustomed to correct manœuvres and having as resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly disconcerted in the presence of that immense foam which is called public wrath.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Lake was all rose and gold out there in the west, and the water so still so still.
— from A Romany of the Snows, vol. 2 Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre by Gilbert Parker

The Commons indulged in a painful scene "of bellowing, and roaring, and gnashing of teeth, which it was almost frightful to look at," says Cockburn.
— from The Mother of Parliaments by Harry Graham

And all this can be done without once asking the question whether religious belief is true and right and good, or not.
— from An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons

He is a scholar, and a ripe and good one, And far too tolerant of modern poets.
— from Masques & Phases by Robert Baldwin Ross

These two men and two [Pg 133] women whose history we record were on their springtide, and we are not to wonder that, beyond the circumference of rock and cloud, they were prevented from looking; not that there were not openings through which they could see ruin, but that the insanity of a fruitful wickedness made them revel blindly in the buoyancy of their progress, heedless of all rocks and gulfs of retribution.
— from The Court of Cacus; Or, The Story of Burke and Hare by Alexander Leighton

Pizarro and his partners were formally authorised to conquer and settle Peru in the name of the Castilian sovereign and received a grant of money for the purchase of arms, agreeing to remit to the royal treasury one-fifth of all the gold that they should find.
— from The South American Republics, Part 2 of 2 by Thomas Cleland Dawson

every plant has just two tiny leaves on it, and shaped the same; they are roundish, and grow out of the stem at the same place.
— from Stories to Tell to Children by Sara Cone Bryant

He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading; Lofty and sour, to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer." Shakspere.
— from History of the Anglo-Saxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest Second Edition by Thomas Miller

Flowers will bud, and then they will blossom, and then the fruit will hang all red and golden on the branches, [21]
— from Five Minute Stories by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Tell them I, as a large stock-holder, and representing a group of large stock-holders, purpose to stop the paying of unearned dividends.” Fisher knew how closely connected my house and the Textile Trust had been; but he showed, and probably felt no astonishment.
— from The Deluge by David Graham Phillips