The fancies found in books; Leave authors' eyes, and fetch your own, To brave the landscape's look."
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The uninhabited country between the two towns was the neutral ground between the two hostile tribes, the Cherokee and the Creeks, and it is worth noting that Kenesaw mountain was made a point on the boundary line afterward established between the two tribes through the mediation of the United States government.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Moreover, if there be any intermissions in philosophy, and yet your later studies are firmer and more continuous than your former ones, it is no bad indication that your sloth has been expelled by labour and exercise; for the contrary is a bad sign, when after a short time your lapses 122 from zeal become many and continuous, as if your zeal were dying away.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

I heard a click of steel and a bellow like an enraged bull.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

This was why marriage between brothers and sisters was authorized by law and encouraged by usage; the sisters were exposed to the attacks of their brothers because they lived separated from them.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

For thou, who dost burn all lands with thy flames, art now burnt with a new flame; and thou, who oughtst to be looking at everything, art gazing on Leucothoë, and on one maiden art fixing those eyes which thou oughtst to be fixing on the universe.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

As a young man, working in Wienn, he had seen a good many artists who were old and poor, making one glass of beer last all evening, and ‘it was not very nice, that.’
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

In the Reichstag, under the wing of the Liberal Socialist party, he has been long an exponent of Christian socialism and the world-wide mission of German kultur.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

But whether he was on the hillside, or down in the glen, or out among the islands, or whether he was trying to satisfy the hunger of his heart with books long after every one in Castle Dare had gone to bed, he could not escape from this gnawing and torturing anxiety.
— from Macleod of Dare by William Black

At the age of twenty-five I went to West Virginia Wesleyan College with a fairly large amount of worldly experience, very little book learning, and enough money to take me through two terms of school.
— from College Men Without Money by Carl Brown Riddle

The young people in the guide boat looked at each other through smarting tears.
— from The Seven Darlings by Gouverneur Morris

A curious smile flitted over Eugenia's face, as she thought of the draft, but she merely replied, "And suppose we haven't any money, can't I make believe , and by looking at expensive instruments induce Mr. Hastings to think we are richer than we are?
— from Dora Deane; Or, The East India Uncle by Mary Jane Holmes

Yere I puts in half a day, amassin' wealth for a foreign gent who is settin' in bad luck; an' elevatin' Mexicans, who shorely needs it, an' for a finish I'm laid for by the marshal like a felon.'
— from Wolfville Days by Alfred Henry Lewis

During our later years in Benares, Fuchs was one of the agents of this Mission, an excellent biblical scholar, a diligent labourer, who required only to be known to be loved and esteemed, with whom we had much pleasant and profitable intercourse.
— from Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy

He fairly itched to use the thing, but lacking an excuse, had time to take more rational counsel of himself.
— from The Bronze Bell by Louis Joseph Vance

As Darwin had read the works of Buffon, Lamarck, and Erasmus Darwin, his grandfather, who had written a famous treatise under the title of "Zoonomia," he was familiar with the evidences known in his student days tending to prove that organic evolution was a real natural process.
— from The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton

With the exception of the Ostrich, which has spread northward into the Palæarctic region, the Struthious birds, living and extinct, are confined to the Southern hemisphere, each continent having its peculiar forms.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 2 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace