As he grows up the world receives him, when his manhood begins, and he enters into contact with his fellows.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Elizabeth was so much caught by what passed, as to leave her very little attention for her book; and soon laying it wholly aside, she drew near the card-table, and stationed herself between Mr. Bingley and his eldest sister, to observe the game.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Marquis started from his pillow: That fire which since the death of Agnes had been extinguished, now revived in his bosom, and his eyes sparkled with the eagerness of expectation.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Let the course of things be allowed hitherto ever so regular; that alone, without some new argument or inference, proves not that, for the future, it will continue so.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

They begat and had eighteen sons.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

] All things, says an old adage, are to be hoped for by a man whilst he lives; ay, but, replies Seneca, why should this rather be always running in a man’s head that fortune can do all things for the living man, than this, that fortune has no power over him that knows how to die? Josephus, when engaged in so near and apparent danger, a whole people being violently bent against him, that there was no visible means of escape, nevertheless, being, as he himself says, in this extremity counselled by one of his friends to despatch himself, it was well for him that he yet maintained himself in hope, for fortune diverted the accident beyond all human expectation, so that he saw himself delivered without any manner of inconvenience.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Johnson censured him for taking down a church which might have stood many years, and building a new one at a different place, for no other reason but that there might be a direct road to a new bridge; and his expression was, 'You are taking a church out of the way, that the people may go in a straight line to the bridge.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Whereas the Australian, in many regions, thinks of the totem animal as his ancestor, the Indian of the prairies speaks of the buffaloes as his elder brothers.
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt

This was more than the distinguished Mr. Dwyer could brook, and he excitedly raised his hand in resistance.
— from Gallegher and Other Stories by Richard Harding Davis

He snatched it from her hand instantly, and devoured it with terrible voraciousness; but again he exclaimed, "I do not like children;—if you trust them they will betray you:" and Agnes offered him food again, as if to bribe him to spare her helpless boy.—"I had a child
— from The Father and Daughter: A Tale, in Prose by Amelia Opie

They show bravely against the pallor of her gown, and seem, indeed, to harmonize altogether with her excessive fairness, for her lips are as red as her poppies, and her cornflowers as blue as her eyes, and her skin puts her drooping daisies all to shame.
— from Rossmoyne by Duchess

The sweat ran off his forehead in great beads, and his eyes were bloodshot.
— from The Magician by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Several girls in the counting-room giggled as he strode by, and his ears flamed red.
— from The Sherrods by George Barr McCutcheon

He almost started, as had Billy, as his eyes encountered the direct gaze of the very black orbs of the man whom they were certain had overheard their conversation at lunch and who had signed the telegram “Nego.”
— from The Boy Aviators on Secret Service; Or, Working with Wireless by John Henry Goldfrap

Whereas he had worked with intra-atomic energy schoolboy fashion, the master craftsman before him knew every reagent, every reaction, and worked with known and thoroughly familiar agencies to bring about his exactly predetermined ends—just as calmly certain of the results as Seaton himself would have been in his own laboratory, mixing equivalent quantities of solutions of barium chloride and of sulphuric acid to obtain a precipitate of barium sulphate.
— from Skylark Three by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

In this way all possible means are taken to keep only one of the brothers at home, each in his turn.
— from Three Years in Tibet by Ekai Kawaguchi

SIXTEENTH CHAPTER "THROUGH DESIRE FOR HER" David Cairns left Beth at her elevator, and walked down the Avenue toward Gramercy.
— from Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel by Will Levington Comfort