Among the influences that have helped to shape my own creed and inspire my own life, have been the beautiful lives and noble characters of Japanese officers, students and common people who were around and before me.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

The Latins used formerly to call to bind ligare , and now call it alligare ; wherefore the staff-bearers are called lictors , and their staves are called bacula , [11] from the rods which they then carried.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Each thought behaved like a newly created poet.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

In the corner, facing the door, under the holy images, bottle labels and newspaper cuttings were stuck on the walls instead of pictures.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

What limitations of activity and inhibitions of conjugal rights were perceived by listener and narrator concerning themselves during the course of this intermittent and increasingly more laconic narration?
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

But the man for whom the mass is said withers away little by little, and nobody can say what is the matter with him; even the doctors can make nothing of it.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Without it, all would be lost and nothing could be done, “and only because I hadn't the money.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"For time is measured by love, and nothing can measure ours."
— from To Leeward by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

The original articles of the Watauga Association have been lost, and no copies are extant.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt

Or had they, under some temporary suggestion of their disorganized brains, themselves hidden away among the rafters of this unexplored spot the treasure they believed lost and now constantly bewailed?
— from The Mayor's Wife by Anna Katharine Green

Our travelers reached Baltimore late at night, changed cars at midnight for New York, and reached that city the next morning in time to secure the passage they had engaged.
— from For Woman's Love by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

63 I think if it had not been for pride and regard for reputation, a good many of us would have been like a negro cook in Company C:
— from Personal Reminiscences of the War of 1861-5 In Camp—en Bivouac—on the March—on Picket—on the Skirmish Line—on the Battlefield—and in Prison by W. H. (William Henry) Morgan

and his successors to have resisted an illegal encroachment of power in the king's ordinary council, while it had in truth been exercising an ancient jurisdiction, never restrained by law and never complained of by the subject.
— from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam

The Signora had been like a new creature after Krespel's heroic achievement.
— from The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

The berry of the gorse which is sometimes called a gooseberry, is banished like a Northumberland cow-pincher of the romantic period, beyond the border; but a well furnished gooseberry bush is as worthy of admiration as anything that grows in the best of the borders, whether the fruit is green or red.
— from A Garden of Peace: A Medley in Quietude by Frank Frankfort Moore

In the interval between Laud and Newman, Church principles had found a different development in another Oxford man; John Wesley's character and spiritual life were built up in Oxford, till he went forth to do the work of an Evangelist during more than half of the eighteenth century.
— from The Charm of Oxford by J. (Joseph) Wells

It became German by logical and natural conquest in the course of Prussia's evolution.
— from The New Map of Europe (1911-1914) The Story of the Recent European Diplomatic Crises and Wars and of Europe's Present Catastrophe by Herbert Adams Gibbons