“The punishment which the Code of Manu awards to the slayer of a Brahman was to be branded in the forehead with the mark of a headless corpse, and entirely banished from society; this being apparently commutable for a fine.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

George could have stood it well enough in the light of the gas lamps, in the light of that everyday world of which he was so hardy a connoisseur; but in this fog, where all was gloomy and unreal, where nothing had that matter-of-fact value associated by Forsytes with earth, he was a victim to strange qualms, and as he tried to stare back into the eyes of this maniac, he thought: 'If I see a bobby, I'll hand him over; he's not fit to be at large.'
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

In the first three the platinum remained intact in sulphuric, nitric, and muriatic acid, but in the fourth, which contained ‘aqua regia’, the metal had not been able to resist the action of the acid.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I that am descended from a long line of illustrious Castilians, who never received an injury they did not revenge, but washed away every blemish in their fame with the blood of those who attempted to stain it!
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Filter through linen, and wash with boiling water until the washings are no longer acid; rinse the substance back into the flask with 200 cc. of the boiling 1.25-percent solution of sodium hydroxid free, or nearly so, of sodium carbonate; boil at once and continue boiling gently for thirty minutes in the same manner as directed above for the treatment with acid.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

For, said he, as flourishing a condition as we may appear to be in to foreigners, we labor under two mighty evils: a violent faction at home, and the danger of an invasion, by a most potent enemy, from abroad.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

A blow in the face was to them a blow and nothing more, a trivial physical injury; whereas the moderns make a catastrophe out of it, a theme for a tragedy; as, for instance, in the Cid of Corneille, or in a recent German comedy of middle-class life, called The Power of Circumstance , which should have been entitled The Power of Prejudice .
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

After the gospel they left the quire, and were bled in the farmery, where they remained three days.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

After this, he silently went back into the forest with Vasudeva, returned home to the ferry.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

When the mind regards bodies in this fashion, we say that it imagines.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

We have generally employed boys for this purpose, but I think females would suit better, provided they were kept by themselves.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

For, as he further said, he had manifest lines and features of both in their faces, which he knew very well, having drawn them both several times.”
— from Springtime and Other Essays by Darwin, Francis, Sir

“Yes, I know them kindly neighbors o’ mine!” broke in the farmer with acrid irony.
— from In the Sixties by Harold Frederic

Jim suddenly burst into tears; for we know that he loved his old mother exceedingly; and he sobbed forth the words: "Oh, my lady, I am afeared as somebody has gone and made way with her as they did with poor Ailsie!"
— from Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

There was a sudden break in the finale, when a sobbing voice exclaimed: "I cannot play it any more.
— from See America First by Charles J. Herr

And whereas the President did, in virtue of the authority vested in him by the said act of February 23, 1895, issue a proclamation on the 25th day of February, 1895, 42 giving notice that the said act of August 19, 1890, as amended by the act of May 28, 1894, would not go into force on March 1, 1895, the date fixed in his said proclamation of July 13, 1894, 43 but on such future date as might be designated in a proclamation of the President to be issued for that purpose; and Whereas an act of Congress entitled "An act to amend an act approved August 19, 1890, entitled 'An act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea,'" was approved June 10, 1896, the said act being in the following words: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled , That article 15 of the act approved August 19, 1890, entitled "An act to adopt regulations for preventing collisions at sea," be amended to read as follows: "ART.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland by Grover Cleveland

In the days of Jehoiachim, King of Judah, when iniquity abounded, and wickedness came to that pass, that the Word of the Prophet’s Roll, was not honoured, but “cut with the penknife,” and “burned in the fire,” what was even the additional sign of the hardness of heart then prevailing?
— from A Second Letter to the Rev. William Maskell, M.A. Some thoughts on the position of the Church of England, as to her dogmatic teaching by Mayow Wynell Mayow

[Pg 228] People who came to Brussels in the first week of June were surprised to find how peaceful the town was, and how gay.
— from Belgium by George W. T. (George William Thomson) Omond