The QUEEN makes no answer, rises out of her chair, goes about the court, comes to the KING, and kneels at his feet; then speaks QUEEN KATHARINE.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

After that certain Churches had renounced this universall Power of the Pope, one would expect in reason, that the Civill Soveraigns in all those Churches, should have recovered so much of it, as (before they had unadvisedly let it goe) was their own Right, and in their own hands.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

I describe a third concentric circle with a similar result, and I continue with more and more circles till Emile, shocked at my stupidity, shows me that every arc, large or small, contained by the same angle will always be the sixth part of its circle.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I think we may say safely, Let them introduce themselves as far as they can contrive to do it!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Nor shun the blessing proffer'd to thy arms, Ascend her bed, and taste celestial charms; So shall thy tedious toils a respite find, And thy lost friends return to human kind.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

} Bright shone the merry moonbeams dancing o'er the wave; At the cool casement, to the evening breeze flung wide, Leans the Sultana, and delights to watch the tide, With surge of silvery sheen, yon sleeping islets lave.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

All homogeneal Light has its proper Colour answering to its Degree of Refrangibility, and that Colour cannot be changed by Reflexions and Refractions.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

The Paynim turban and the Christian crest Mixed on the bleeding stream, by floating hosts oppressed.
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

But the combined result of all is simply this, to admit into the empirical synthesis nothing which might cause a break in or be foreign to the understanding and the continuous connection of all phenomena, that is, the unity of the conceptions of the understanding.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Uncles and aunts paid only short visits now; of course, they could not stay to meals, and the constraint caused by Mr. Tulliver's savage silence, which seemed to add to the hollow resonance of the bare, uncarpeted room when the aunts were talking, heightened the unpleasantness of these family visits on all sides, and tended to make them rare.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Heat two tablespoons of drippings in a spider, add a large-sized onion chopped fine, do not let the onion get too brown; then add the bread, one pound of chopped beef well minced and the chopped cabbage and let it get well heated; take off stove and add two eggs, pepper, salt, nutmeg, a little parsley and a little sage, season very highly.
— from The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; the Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc. by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum

Dust or ash this chap calls out, With all his might and main, He’s got a mighty cinder heap Somewhere near Gray’s Inn Lane.
— from A History of the Cries of London, Ancient and Modern by Charles Hindley

The father kissed the boy heartily; and the Countess, calling him to her so soon as Sir Geoffrey had set him down, kissed his forehead also, and then surveyed all his features with a keen and penetrating eye.
— from Peveril of the Peak by Walter Scott

The law as to exactions, the enactments of which Caesar had already in his first consulate made more stringent, was applied by him against the chief commandants in the provinces with an inexorable severity going even beyond its letter; and the tax-officers, if indeed they ventured to indulge in an injustice, atoned for it to their master, as slaves and freedmen according to the cruel domestic law of that time were wont to atone.
— from The History of Rome, Book V The Establishment of the Military Monarchy by Theodor Mommsen

Educated at Winchester, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde

The boat was set loose from the bank, and the current carried it along with rapidity.
— from Annouchka: A Tale by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Happily, too, in the presence of menace the animosities of faction were stilled, and the council cooperated heartily with the governor whom it had just been trying to depose and whom only a little later it denounced to the court as worthy of investigation and indictment.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

This running away from the enemy could not be stood at any price, and the constant cry was: "Why don't we stand and fight them?
— from With a Reservist in France A Personal Account of All the Engagements in Which the 1st Division 1st Corps Took Part, viz.: Mons (Including the Retirement), the Marne, the Aisne, First Battle of Ypres, Neuve Chapelle, Festubert, and Loos by F. A. Bolwell

Experience shows that not always the completely chaperoned girl is safe and the quite-free girl in real danger.
— from The Etiquette of To-day by Edith B. (Edith Bertha) Ordway