Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future, which can be formed so rapidly that he had time to be uncomfortable and to become easy again before Mr. Poyser's slow speech was finished, and when it was time for him to speak he was quite light-hearted.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

he must say that B God did what was just and right, and they were the better for being punished; but that those who are punished are miserable, and that God is the author of their misery—the poet is not to be permitted to say; though he may say that the wicked are miserable because they require to be punished, and are benefited by receiving punishment from God; but that God being good is the author of evil to any one is to be C strenuously denied, and not to be said or sung or heard in verse or prose by any one whether old or young in any well-ordered commonwealth.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

She would be gazing in rapture at the vast sea glittering in the sunlight and the boundless sky with its golden tints.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Had not she better go into a convent or become a Sister of Mercy?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The child is only naughty because he is weak; make him strong and he will be good; if we could do everything we should never do wrong.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The railroad which ran through this section ascended from the south-west to the north-west by Great Island, Columbus, an important Nebraska town, Schuyler, and Fremont, to Omaha.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

All counties, cities, and towns, and all corporate bodies to whom crests have been granted in England, have the ordinary closed profile helmet Page 325 {325} of an esquire or gentleman.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Mr. Zangwill, in his swelling Semitic enthusiasm, embraced the Jews in the British Government in the same category with the Jews of the Hungarian and Russian Bolshevik governments.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

[ This legend is related by Gregory I., (Dialog.
— 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

Among the Warramunga and among the Tjingilli there are clans which bear the name of an ancestor named Thaballa who seems to be gaiety incarnate.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

—Where — Defendant's rights where no notice [Pg 589] ( a ) proceedings are taken for the infringement of the performing right in a dramatic or musical work published as a book, and ( b ) the defendant proves to the satisfaction of the Court that he has in his possession a copy of the book containing the dramatic or musical work and that that copy was published with the consent of the owner of the copyright, and does not contain the notice required by this Act of the reservation of the performing right, judgment may be given in his favor either with or without costs as the Court, in its discretion, thinks fit; but in any such case the owner of the performing right (if he is not the owner of the copyright) shall be entitled to recover from the owner of the copyright damages in respect of the injury he has incurred by the neglect of the owner of the copyright to cause due notice to be given of the reservation of the performing right.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

' Lightfoot says that in many parts of the Highlands of Scotland, at the birth of a child, the nurse or midwife puts one end of a green stick of this tree into the fire, and, while it is burning, gathering in a spoon the sap or juice, which oozes out at the other end, administers this as the first spoonful of food to the newly-born baby.'
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

A DEO INTER EXORDIA VIVENDI DE HAC LVCE SVBLATA EST VT IN MELIORE LVMINE VIVERE MERERETVR —“Here rests ... who was snatched away by God in the very beginning of life from the light of earth, that she might be worthy to live in the more glorious light (of heaven).”
— from The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow

Ample: but goodness in a like degree?
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

The difficulties encountered by the enumerators of the United States Census, and the growing conviction that much more minute and organized effort must be given if the real status of women workers was to be obtained, had already been matter of grave discussion.
— from Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future by Helen Campbell

"This [Pg 22] beautiful tree," he continues, "which is adorned with leaves above five inches long and two broad, growing in dense forests, seems always to aspire to rise above its neighbours.
— from Travels in Peru and India While Superintending the Collection of Chinchona Plants and Seeds in South America, and Their Introduction into India. by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

"And, by God, I'm fond of the little toad, too.
— from The Pursuit by Frank (Frank Mackenzie) Savile

In 1792 he was sent by Washington to treat with the Creek Indians at the south; and the same year he was appointed a brigadier general in the army intended to act against the Northwestern Indians.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

We know nothing of the merits or demerits of the machine, but give it as a criterion by which to judge what sewing-machine agents may expect in the way of remuneration.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

From every ruined castle grey, well may the banshee cry O'er bitter waters once let loose that have not yet run dry O would the blessed time might come when, party feeling done, The noble deeds of both sides will be gathered into one!
— from Verses and Rhymes By the Way by Norah