Mr. Spencer further shows that emotional speech, in all the above respects is intimately related to vocal music, and consequently to instrumental music; and he attempts to explain the characteristic qualities of both on physiological grounds—namely, on "the general law that a feeling is a stimulus to muscular action."
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Multiply the number of rails in a hurdle by four, and the result is the exact number of miles in the side of a square field containing the same number of acres as there are rails in the complete fence.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

When the lingam is held with the hand, and turned all round in the yoni, it is called "churning."
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

He sang how they overran the city hither and thither and ravaged it, and how Ulysses went raging like Mars along with Menelaus to the house of Deiphobus.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

If I have made my meaning clear you ought to realise how bodily exercise and manual work unconsciously arouse thought and reflexion in my pupil, and counteract the idleness which might result from his indifference to men’s judgments, and his freedom from passion.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All things are ready, if our minds be so.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

There are those, very few in number and of atheistical tendencies, who assert that all religion is a sham, being the invention of Jews for the purpose of enslaving the minds of the people of the world to an enervating superstition.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Shakespeare (it is true) wrote perfect historical 20 plays on subjects belonging to the preceding centuries, (but) they are perfect plays just because there is no care about centuries in them, but a life which all men recognise for the human life of all time; ... a rogue in the fifteenth century being, at heart, what a rogue is in the nineteenth and was in the twelfth; and an honest or a knightly man being, in like manner, very similar to other such at any other time.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

And through all reverberated incessantly the defiant clarion of the cataract.
— from Overland: A Novel by John William De Forest

Take a tablespoonful and roll it in a clean towel, making it oval in shape; dip it in a well-beaten egg, and then in bread crumbs, and drop it in hot drippings or lard.
— from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Hugo Ziemann

The injury sustained is not the measure of indignation, as the advantage received is not that of admiration.
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

And the preapprehension of this so belaboured my alreadie o'erburthened spiritts, as that I was fayn to betake myself to y e nurserie, and lose alle thought and reflection in my little Bill's prettie ways.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851 by Various

Fourteen years later, in 1784, he took Dr. Craik over the same terrain when these dreams appeared to attain realization in the contemplated canal to connect the Potomac with the Ohio.
— from Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Gay Montague Moore

The nuts grow on a low, scrubby tree, a species of Pine, and in gathering the nuts they covered their hands with gum which is as sticky as tar and rubbed it on their bodies and in their hair.
— from Capt. W. F. Drannan, Chief of Scouts, As Pilot to Emigrant and Government Trains, Across the Plains of the Wild West of Fifty Years Ago by William F. Drannan

As the author recalled: I had worked out a pre-sleep routine which I followed every night without fail.
— from Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for Saipan by John C. Chapin

Goths, all the, and Romans, i. 28 .
— from The Letters of Cassiodorus Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Senator Cassiodorus

She became the patron of the living, and the advowson remains in her family.
— from Old Times at Otterbourne by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

[404] All these are represented in Gailhabaud's 'Architecture ancienne et moderne,' ii.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson