His various quotations from Manu are derived, not from the later famous law-book, but evidently from a legal Sūtra related to our Manu.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Thanks also to my editorial assistant, Brooke Belisle, and to colleagues including Andrew Shapiro, Steven Johnson, Ted Byfield, Richard Barbrook, David Bennahum, Red Burns, Eugenie Furniss and Lance Strate.
— from Open Source Democracy: How online communication is changing offline politics by Douglas Rushkoff

But except for a little scatter, that he took to be the lift of a covey of quail somewhere off in the Gulch bushes, not a sound or sign came up to the bluff.
— from Sally of Missouri by Rose E. (Rose Emmet) Young

The Commissioners purchased the lease of a house, together with furniture, books, etc., from a Literary, Scientific, and Mechanics' Institute which stood on the east side of the road, a little to the north of the present library building, and the library was opened there in 1857.
— from Westminster by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

The chapter, which gives the Political Arithmetic of Gregory King, with such comment and suggestions as might be expected from a liberal supporter of the Revolution, and with this suggestion of a Corporation, is in itself a complete essay.
— from Essays on Mankind and Political Arithmetic by Petty, William, Sir

This was their daily Practice for a considerable space, 'till at last a Confident of Theodora 's who was sometimes admitted as variety in these Brutal Enjoyments, for a large Sum of Money reveal'd their Intrigues to Philetus , a Youth of a very comly Person, but a little Effeminate, who passionately admir'd the beautiful T heodora , and who had made several Attempts on her in vain.
— from Tractus de Hermaphrodites; Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites by Giles Jacob

The discovery of the real origin of man by evolution from a long series of mammal ancestors threw light on his place in nature in every aspect, as Huxley had already shown in his excellent lectures of 1863.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

Her blue eyes feigned a laughing shyness.
— from The Raft by Coningsby Dawson