They disputed about it for a time, but as they were weary they let the matter rest, and their eyes closed once more.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

To the work conducted under his auspices the East Cherokee owe much of what they have to-day of civilization and enlightenment.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

The ceremonial law, which consisted only of types and figures, was succeeded by a pure and spiritual worship, equally adapted to all climates, as well as to every condition of mankind; and to the initiation of blood was substituted a more harmless initiation of water.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

So that, without having recourse to the supernatural information given us on this head, or paying any regard to the changes which must have taken place in the internal, as well as the external, conformation of man, as he applied his limbs to new uses, and fed himself on new kinds of food, I shall suppose his conformation to have been at all times what it appears to us at this day; that he always walked on two legs, made use of his hands as we do, directed his looks over all nature, and measured with his eyes the vast expanse of Heaven.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We passed along the east coast of Mindoro and the west coast of Panay.
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

The Tirsan doth also then ever choose one man from among his sons, to live in house with him; who is called ever after the Son of the Vine.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

Thus the fertilising virtue ascribed to the corn-spirit is shown equally in the savage custom of mixing the victim’s blood or ashes with the seed-corn and the European custom of mixing the grain from the last sheaf with the young corn in spring.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Gringoire and the entire Court of Miracles were suffering mortal anxiety.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

The monk, who helped me as well as he could with the punch I had taken from the desk, trembled at the echoing clamour of my pike which must have been audible at some distance.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The new-comer stopped abruptly, and, gazing in astonishment at the extraordinary combination of man and chair before him, retired a few paces in disorder.
— from The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

It is probable that nutrition plays as important a part among the external causes of mutability as it does among those of fluctuating variability.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

He remained at the Cape to assist Kambira, at the express command of Maraquita; and continued there until Harold returned, bringing Lieutenant Lindsay with him as a partner in the business; until Harold was married and required a gardener for his own domain; until the Senhorina became Mrs Lindsay; until a large and thriving band of little Cape colonists found it necessary to have a general story-teller and adventure-recounter with a nautical turn of mind; until, in short, he found it convenient to go to England himself for the gal of his heart who had been photographed there years before, and could be rubbed off neither by sickness, sunstroke, nor adversity.
— from Black Ivory by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

We thus get a third essential constituent of many great goods; and in this way we are able to justify (1) the attribution of value to knowledge , over and above its value as a means, and (2) the intrinsic superiority of the proper appreciation of a real object over the appreciation of an equally valuable object of mere imagination: emotions directed towards real objects may thus, even if the object be inferior, claim equality with the highest imaginative pleasures.
— from Principia Ethica by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

To keep me from dying of England, and your village, and all the exciting circumstances of my life.
— from Lady William by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

If there was therefore any thing either criminal or mean in hearing the adventures of others, do you imagine so many great and illustrious persons would have given in to such an amusement?
— from The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 by Charlotte Lennox

“The portrait of the artist’s mother,” wrote one of them, “has all the essentials of great art, as the early compositions of Mozart had all the essentials of great music.
— from Mendel: A Story of Youth by Gilbert Cannan

'So they spake, and the evil counsel of my company prevailed.
— from The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Prose by Homer

Methinks in this day and from this station I behold all those who cherish My love and follow My behest abiding within the mansions of Paradise, and the entire company of Mine adversaries consigned to the lowest depths of hell-fire.
— from Selections From the Writings of the Báb by `Ali Muhammad Shirazi Bab

With such tidings only, and with his heart more agonised than ever, Charles of Montsoreau returned to the Duke, who was still standing gloomily by the Queen, who, on her part looked up at his dark and frowning countenance with a degree of calmness which did not seem quite so natural as she could have wished.
— from Henry of Guise; or, The States of Blois (Vol. 3 of 3) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James