as regards relatives and strangers, such foolish distinctions aren't drawn by our master; and it's simply because he's full of pity and is tenderhearted that he can't put off any one who gives vent to a few words of entreaty, and nothing else!"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Gen. regendī , of ruling Dat. regendō , for ruling Acc. regendum , ruling Acc.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Fame is not prostituted at so cheap a rate: rare and exemplary actions, to which it is due, would not endure the company of this prodigious crowd of petty daily performances.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

" "The lady herself might have had a reason," Robert answered, quietly.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The first point is to appreciate the fact that, in a race round a circular track, there are the same number of cars behind one as there are before.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Just so stigmatizations, invulnerabilities, instantaneous cures, inspired discourses, and demoniacal possessions, the records of which were shelved in our libraries but yesterday in the alcove headed 'superstitions,' now, under the brand-new title of 'cases of hystero-epilepsy,' are republished, reobserved, and reported with an even too credulous avidity.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

He’s a robin redbreast an’ they’re th’ friendliest, curiousest birds alive.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

And he caught glimpses of their life, in the years to come, wherein, against a background of work and comfort and general well-being, he saw himself and Ruth reading and discussing poetry, she propped amid a multitude of cushions on the ground while she read aloud to him.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Its area roughly reckoned as 150,000 square miles, is about that of our Dakotas or of Great Britain and Ireland.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

“All right,” replied Alfy, “do you need me to do up the back of your dress?”
— from Dorothy's Tour by Evelyn Raymond

On other parts are emblems of the slaughter-house, such as ropes, rings, and axes.
— from England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook

It was to carry on controversies as to the older and the later types of Christianity, as to Polytheism, Judaism, and Monotheism; it was to confute Romanism, Scepticism, and German metaphysics; it was to denounce celibacy and monasticism, to glorify muscular Christianity, to give glowing pictures of Greek sensuousness and Roman rascality, and finally to secure the apotheosis of Scandinavian heroism.
— from Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Frederic Harrison

So overcome was I by this unexpected stroke of good fortune, that for a minute or two I was scarcely conscious of what was going on around me, and returned rambling and incoherent answers to the congratulations which were showered upon me.
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

By common consent, students of the history of the evolution of society accept these successive ages, each designated by the type of implements with which the world's work was accomplished, as representing real and definite stages of human progress, and as needing no better definition than that supplied by the different types of implements.
— from Every-day Science: Volume 6. The Conquest of Nature by Edward Huntington Williams

They were also right when they declared that panmixia in the form in which until recently I held the theory was also insufficient to explain the degeneration of parts that had grown useless, but they Page 65 {65} erred when they ascribed hereditary effects to the selection-processes which are enacted among the parts of the body (Wilhelm Roux) and which are rightly regarded as the results of functioning.
— from On Germinal Selection as a Source of Definite Variation by August Weismann

Yet, a little while; this discipline is good: storm and wind, frost and rushing rains, are as needful to the forest-tree as sun and gentle shower; the root is strengthening, and its fibres spreading out: and loving still each other with the best of human love, ye justly now have found out how to anchor all your strongest hopes, and deepest thoughts, on Him who made you for himself.
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper