Among the other little girls, with their sunburnt faces and roughly cropped hair, dressed in long faded smocks, she with her white little face, with her big dark eyes, with a red ribbon in her hair, looked funny, as though she were some little wild creature that had been caught and brought into the hut.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I am well aware, that in advanced stages of literature, when there exist many and excellent models, a high degree of talent, combined with taste and judgment, and employed in works of imagination, will acquire for a man the name of a great genius; though even that analogon of genius, which, in certain states of society, may even render his writings more popular than the absolute reality could have done, would be sought for in vain in the mind and temper of the author himself.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source (1) True source ("Where does it really come from?") (a) Release channel ("How did it come out?") if different from true source without concealing true source (b) Person or institution in whose name material originates (c) Transmitting channel ("Who got it to us?"), person or institution effecting known transmission—omitting, of course, analyst's own procurement facilities (2) Ostensible source ("Where does it pretend to come from?") (a) Release channel ("Who is supposed to be passing it along?") (3) First-use and second-use source (first use, "Who is said to have used this first?"; second use, "Who pretends to be quoting someone else?") (a) Connection between second-use source and first-use source, usually in the form of attributed or unacknowledged quotation; more rarely, plagiarism (b) Modification between use by first-use and second-use sources, when both are known (i) Deletions (ii) Changes in text (iii) Enclosure within editorial matter of transmitter (iv) Falsification which appears deliberate (v) Effects of translation from one language to another b. Time (1) Time of events or utterance to which subject-matter refers (2) Time of transmission (publishing, broadcasting, etc.) (3) Timing of repetitions (4) Reasons, if any are evident, for peculiarities of timing c. Audience (1) Intended direct audience ("in English to North America"; "a paper for New York restaurant operators") (2) Intended indirect audience (program beamed "in English to North America" but actually reaching Hong Kong and Singapore by deliberate plan of the sender; "a paper for New York restaurant operators" being faked and sent to Southeast Europe in fact) (3) Unintended audience (a Guadalcanal native studying Esquire ; your aunt reading the Infantry Journal ; a Chinese reading American wartime speeches against the "yellow devils" of Japan) (4) Ostensibly unintended direct audience (such as an appeal to strikers in very abusive-sounding language, sent to businessmen to build up opinion against the strikers, or Hitler's black use of the forged Protocols of the Elders of Zion) d. Subject ("What does it say?")
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

My gracious lord, my lovely Saturnine, Lord of my life, commander of my thoughts, Calm thee, and bear the faults of Titus' age, Th' effects of sorrow for his valiant sons Whose loss hath pierc'd him deep and scarr'd his heart; And rather comfort his distress
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

If white men of any race could have done it, these would have accomplished it.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

The arche of which doore compassing like a halfe cyrcle, was wrought curiouslye and imbowed, and as it were bounde about with laces like beads of brasse, some round, and some like Eglantine berries of a reddish couler, hanging downe after an auncient manner, and foulded and turned in among the tender stalkes.
— from Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Francesco Colonna

Unlike other nobles, you have owed your power not so much to lordship, land, and birth, and a king’s smile, as to the love you have nobly won; you alone, true knight and princely Christian,—you alone, in war, have spared the humble; you alone, stalwart and resistless champion, have directed your lance against your equals, and your order hath gone forth to the fierce of heart, ‘Never smite the commons!’
— from The Last of the Barons — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

My gracious lord, my lovely Saturnine, [4629] Lord of my life, commander of my thoughts, [4630] Calm thee, and bear the faults of Titus' age, [4631] The effects of sorrow for his valiant sons, 30 Whose loss hath pierced him deep and scarr'd his heart; And rather comfort his distressed plight
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9] by William Shakespeare

But the great, if mostly wasted, power [Pg 467] displayed in his work is quite undeniable by any real critic; he did some things—and more parts of things—absolutely good; and if, as has been admitted, he did literary evil, he upset in a curious fashion the usual dictum that the evil that men do lives after them.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

It was further set down that this zone representative should be in charge of Red Cross hospital administration within its territory and should direct its operations at the American Red Cross hospitals, dispensaries, infirmaries, convalescent homes, and all similar activities.
— from With the Doughboy in France: A Few Chapters of an American Effort by Edward Hungerford

[185] to fetch home cherries from the tree near the cross; but as he was a rank coward, he dare not go alone, and so he persuaded a good villager, the old Loaserer Sepp, to accompany him.
— from Tales and Legends of the Tyrol by Günther, Marie A., countess

A moment, horse and rider stood motionless, then, with a renewed cheer, he dashed boldly and at full speed toward the mouth of the basin and the plain.
— from Free Trapper's Pass; or, the Gold-seeker's Daughter! by William R. (William Reynolds) Eyster

I am living in a ruined Creole house; damp brick walls green with age, zig-zag cracks running down the façade, a great yard with plants and cacti in it; a quixotic horse, four cats, two rabbits, three dogs, five geese, and a seraglio of hens,—all living together in harmony.
— from The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1 by Elizabeth Bisland

His letter on this subject, expressing his obvious relief at the manner in which things had turned out, makes amusing reading: Chiswick House, December 1, 1889.
— from John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. (1847-1900), a Memoir by Hunter Blair, David Oswald, Sir