[309] We may illustrate this double explanation by a reference to some of Plato’s Dialogues, such as the Gorgias , where the ethical argument has a singularly mixed effect on the mind.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Then an angel from heaven came to her and said, "Be at rest, thou shalt have a son with the power of wishing, so that whatsoever in the world he wishes for, that shall he have."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

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— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

then began and related the story of Mr Anderson.—After this she cried, “This, madam, this is his goodness; but I have much more tender obligations to him.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

When Mrs Forrester, for instance, gave a party in her baby-house of a dwelling, and the little maiden disturbed the ladies on the sofa by a request that she might get the tea-tray out from underneath, everyone took this novel proceeding as the most natural thing in the world, and talked on about household forms and ceremonies as if we all believed that our hostess had a regular servants’ hall, second table, with housekeeper and steward, instead of the one little charity-school maiden, whose short ruddy arms could never have been strong enough to carry the tray upstairs, if she had not been assisted in private by her mistress, who now sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The Magistrates, in Quarter Sessions assembled, agreed, in 1814, upon the following prices, as in their opinion fair and equitable to be paid by the military authorities for provisions:—Flour, per barrel, £3 10 s. Wheat, per bushel, 10 s. Pease, per bushel, 7 s. 6 d. Barley and Rye, the same.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

I approached Captain Boltrope and repeated the salute without conscientiously omitting a single detail.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

A gentleman makes no noise: a lady is serene Proportionate is our disgust at those invaders who fill a studious house with blast and running, to secure some paltry convenience.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Well, she was the daughter of Guybertant, minstrel of the barges at Reims, the same who had played before King Charles VII., at his coronation, when he descended our river Vesle from Sillery to Muison, when Madame the Maid of Orleans was also in the boat.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

When he painted the sufferings of the natives and pilgrims of Palestine, every heart was melted to compassion; every breast glowed with indignation, when he challenged the warriors of the age to defend their brethren, and rescue their Savior: his ignorance of art and language was compensated by sighs, and tears, and ejaculations; and Peter supplied the deficiency of reason by loud and frequent appeals to Christ and his mother, to the saints and angels of paradise, with whom he had personally conversed.
— 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

Finding themselves beaten as regards the skulls, the advocates of transmutation next appeal to the bones.
— from Primitive Man by Louis Figuier

They got out a torn and dirty book and read the sorrowful history of the amorous and unfortunate Kamtchadalky.
— from Three Men: A Novel by Maksim Gorky

Below Chadd’s Ford, the Brandywine becomes a roaring torrent, shut in between steep, high cliffs, so that the American left, resting upon these natural defences, was sufficiently guarded by the Pennsylvania militia under Armstrong.
— from The American Revolution by John Fiske

I glanced at the banker and read the same thought in his expression.
— from The Film Mystery by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

While our hero was thus pursuing his vagaries, the unhappy lady of Ystrad Fîn, who had not p. 208 known a day’s peace since his absence, was daily wavering between a resolution to send for him back, to bestow on him her hand, and a deference for her father and proud relatives, who insisted that if ever she married again, it should only be to a title and fortune; by which they should themselves share in the honor.
— from The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti Descriptive of Life in Wales: Interspersed with Poems by T. J. Llewelyn (Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn) Prichard

Still, he always fought with that cold resolution which distinguishes the Bretons, and renders them such terrible foemen.
— from The Prairie Flower: A Tale of the Indian Border by Gustave Aimard

By boiling out the water, without burning, and removing the scum, it will do to feed bees.
— from Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by M. (Moses) Quinby

For, if they have always run in the pasture uncared for (as many horses do in prairie countries and on large plantations), there is no reason why they should not be as wild as the sportsman’s birds, and require the same gentle treatment, if you want to get them without trouble; for the horse, in his natural state, is as wild as a stag, or any of the undomesticated animals, though more easily tamed.
— from A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid by J. S. (John Solomon) Rarey

On such a question we dare not dogmatise; but I am humbly of opinion that in the great re-awakening to the realities (not to the outward forms) of religion, which some of us think will follow the war, there will be a return to simplicity of belief, and that the too often disregarded New Testament explanation of certain mysterious happenings will be proved to be more in accordance with the later discoveries of Science than some advocates of the Higher Criticism now think.
— from In Good Company Some personal recollections of Swinburne, Lord Roberts, Watts-Dunton, Oscar Wilde Edward Whymper, S. J. Stone, Stephen Phillips by Coulson Kernahan

The same imbecility of Page 97 [97] mind is often produced in adults, and in those of advanced age, by paralytic or epileptic attacks, and from various affections of the brain, and requires the same accurate investigation, to determine on the competency of such persons, to be entrusted with the management of themselves and affairs.
— from Medical Jurisprudence as it Relates to Insanity, According to the Law of England by John Haslam