C H A P. XXII K ING William, said my uncle Toby, addressing himself to Yorick, was so terribly provoked at count Solmes for disobeying his orders, that he would not suffer him to come into his presence for many months after.——I fear, answered Yorick, the squire will be as much provoked at the corporal, as the 76 King at the count.——But ’twould be singularly hard in this case, continued be, if corporal Trim, who has behaved so diametrically opposite to count Solmes, should have the fate to be rewarded with the same disgrace:——too oft in this world, do things take that train.——I would spring a mine, cried my uncle Toby, rising up,——and blow up my fortifications, and my house with them, and we would perish under their ruins, ere I would stand by and see it.—— Trim directed a slight,——but a grateful bow towards his master,——and so the chapter ends.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The stars are visible to us in the night, in the same way that other luminous bodies are seen in the dark.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

It is in virtue of some such prophetic dream that a man feels himself called to great achievements in a special sphere, and works in that direction from his youth up out of an inner and secret feeling that that is his true path, just as by a similar instinct the bee is led to build up its cells in the comb.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

‘Don’t be alarmed,’ said I. ‘There’s nothing to be afraid of.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The fifth and last inhabitant of Ward No. 6 is a man of the artisan class who had once been a sorter in the post office, a thinnish, fair little man with a good-natured but rather sly face.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Most of his beasts of burden also slipping in the mud fell and perished, and could then only do the men one service: they sat upon their dead bodies, and piling up baggage upon them so as to stand out above the water, they managed to get a snatch of sleep 187 for a short portion of the night.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Her insipidity was invariable, for even her spirits were always the same; and though she did not oppose the parties arranged by her husband, provided every thing were conducted in style and her two eldest children attended her, she never appeared to receive more enjoyment from them than she might have experienced in sitting at home;—and so little did her presence add to the pleasure of the others, by any share in their conversation, that they were sometimes only reminded of her being amongst them by her solicitude about her troublesome boys.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Who could be acquisitive, selfish, in the old rasped London way, in the presence of this bounteous beauty?
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

This active type of motion cannot be adequately stated in terms of the passive movements (groupings and re-groupings) of its constituent parts according to certain empirical “laws.”
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

[64] The Valkyrie [69], or fatal sisters of the Suevi or Siebi, would be the twin sisters of the Apsaras, who summon the Rajput warrior from the field of battle, and bear him to “the mansion of the sun,” equally the object of attainment with the children of Odin in Scandinavia, and of Budha and Surya in the 83 plains of Scythia and on the Ganges, like the Elysium
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

For the results established by the paper in question are—That it is no longer necessary to swing a ship in order to ascertain the compass deviation, or error, seeing that it is possible to determine the various forms of error by mathematics; that an iron ship should always be built with her head to the south; if built head north, there is such a confused amount of magnetism concentrated in the stern as to have a violent disturbing effect on the compass; that if, after building, a ship is to be armor-plated, the head, during the fixing of the plates, should be turned in the opposite direction— that is, to the north; and that especial pains should be taken while building an iron ship to provide a {715} suitable place for the standard-compass.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

A slain Lamb, or a Lamb as it had been slain, when it is seen by a supplicant in the midst of the throne, whither he is come for grace, is a blessed sight!
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

You will see this beautiful Lady, the fortunate Daughter of Sion, beg hospitality, and not find a shelter in the whole of Bethlehem, although she is the Mother of the King of Glory.
— from The Month of Mary, According to the Spirit of St. Francis of Sales Thirty-One Considerations With Examples, Prayers, Etc. by Francis, de Sales, Saint

317 n. 2 Eclipse, ceremonies at an, i. 311 sq. —— of the moon, custom of the Indians of the Orinoco at an, i. 311; Athenian superstition as to an, vi. 141 —— of the sun, burning arrows shot into the air at an, i. 311; practice of the Kamtchatkans at an, i. 312; practice of the Chilcotin Indians at an, i. 312, iv.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

By my faith, said I, I am no great pardon-taker in this world—if I shall be any such in the other, I cannot tell; yet let us go, in God’s name; it is but one farthing more or less; But, said he, lend me then a farthing upon interest.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Only, he is very well, we shall never find a better; and, shall I tell you?
— from Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

The other day, however, we were shown a set of larger horns, though not quite so handsome perhaps, or so faultless in spread and curve, and unfortunately imperfect from the loss of one of the tines, which was picked up by a shepherd in the Black Mount Forest many years ago.
— from Nether Lochaber The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West Highlands by Stewart, Alexander, Rev.

When daylight was yet sleeping under the billow, And stars in the heavens still lingering shone.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

The best thing I lit upon, by accident, was a small country church (by whom or when built unknown), standing bare and single in the midst of a grove, with no house or appearance of habitation within a quarter of a mile, only passages diverging from it through beautiful woods to so many farm-houses.
— from Mary Lamb by Anne (Anne Burrows) Gilchrist