The hairs of the monarch’s head, the soles of his feet, the breath of his body, indeed every single detail of his person, both outward and inward, have particular names.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Thou of the tawny flowing hair in battle, I erewhile saw, with erect head, pressing ever in front, bearing a bright sword in thy hand, Now ending well in death the splendid fever of thy deeds, (I bring no dirge for it or thee, I bring a glad triumphal sonnet,) Desperate and glorious, aye in defeat most desperate, most glorious, After thy many battles in which never yielding up a gun or a color, Leaving behind thee a memory sweet to soldiers, Thou yieldest up thyself. H2 anchor Old War-Dreams In midnight sleep of many a face of anguish, Of the look at first of the mortally wounded, (of that indescribable look,) Of the dead on their backs with arms extended wide, I dream, I dream, I dream.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

But I expect she’ll ruin that dress driving over there in the dust and dew with it, and it looks most too thin for these damp nights.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Religion may be an excellent means of curbing and controlling the perverse, dull, and malicious creatures of the biped race; in the eyes of the friend of truth every fraus , be it ever so pia , must be rejected.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

‘It’s the finest boy I ever saw in all my life,’ said the doctor.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The long table was full, and every one intent on getting their dinner, the gentlemen especially, who seemed to be eating on time, for they bolted in every sense of the word, vanishing as soon as they were done.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

If thou seekest after this or that, and wilt be here or there, according to thine own advantage or the fulfilling of thine own pleasure, thou shalt never be in quiet, nor free from care, because in everything somewhat will be found lacking, and everywhere there will be somebody who opposeth thee.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

This shape will perhaps strike us as being something unusual, something not met before in ethnological studies.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The sublime agony of Prometheus Bound, the majesty of wickedness in Clytaemnestra, the martial grandeur of the siege of Thebes, or of the battle of Salamis, in Aeschylus; the awful doom of Oedipus, his mysterious end, the heroic despair of Ajax, the martyrdom of Antigone to duty, in Sophocles; the passion of Phaedra and Medea, the conjugal self-sacrifice of Alcestis, the narratives of the deaths of Polyxena and the slaughter of Pentheus by the Bacchae, in Euripides, speak for themselves, if the translation is at all faithful, and find their best comment in the reader's natural appreciation.
— from Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles by Sophocles

It must not be forgotten, however, that in God's economy every feeling, if properly used, has its work to do in character building in every stage of its development, so that even the foundation stones may be laid in beauty and strength.
— from The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training by Antoinette Abernethy Lamoreaux

"I thought you hadn't been in Egypt since you were a child.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Home politics 261 The Whigs and Peel 261 Belief in emigration schemes 262 [xiv] Mark Lemon 263
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

"'Be it ever so humble,'" Bill left the line of the old song unfinished, but his tone was full of jubilation.
— from North of Fifty-Three by Bertrand W. Sinclair

"This is the ancient temple of Philæ, one of the most beautiful in Egypt," said Mustapha.
— from Nabul, Our Little Egyptian Cousin by Blanche McManus

Montanus —"In order to render it less material I have introduced numerous mortifications—three Lents [Pg 60] every year, and, for each night, prayers, in saying which the mouth is kept closed, for fear the breath, in escaping, should sully the mental act.
— from The Temptation of St. Antony; Or, A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert

Unless when disturbed while upon its nest, this bird is extremely sociable, and may be approached within a few feet; but when startled from the nest, it displays the anxiety common to almost all birds on such occasions.
— from Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5) An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America by John James Audubon

“Poor though we may be in earth’s substances, yet in one thing are we still rich—our mutual love.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 6, December 1852 by Various