Anon We heard the lion roaring from his den; 26 We saw the large white stars rise one by one, Or, from the darken'd glen, "Saw God divide the night with flying flame, And thunder on the everlasting hills.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Game is best out of five, seven, eleven, or thirteen points.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

In order to propitiate the wood-spirits people bring offerings of food, fowls, goats, and so forth to the places which they are supposed to haunt.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

One of the proctors for St. Anthonie’s tied a bell about the neck, and let it feed on the dunghills; no man would hurt or take them up, but if any gave to them bread, or other feeding, such would they know, watch for, and daily follow, whining till they had somewhat given them; whereupon was raised a proverb, “Such an one will follow such an one, and [166] whine as it were an Anthonie pig;” but if such a pig grew to be fat, and came to good liking (as oft times they did), then the proctor would take him up to the use of the hospital.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

For the body will not only be better than it was here in its best estate of health, but it will surpass the [Pg 545] bodies of our first parents ere they sinned.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

“Ah, I understand,” said Beauchamp, “on our friend Albert’s account.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

In relieving and quieting us for the moment, it is no doubt effective enough; but when our misfortunes have resulted—as is usually the case—from our own carelessness or folly, or, at any rate, partly by our own fault, it is a good thing to consider how they might have been avoided, and to consider it often in spite of its being a tender subject—a salutary form of self-discipline, which will make us wiser and better men for the future.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

Because so great is our regard for our country, as not to be measured by our own feeling, but by its own actual safety.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Within some few days thereafter, I have forgot how many, when he got full notice of the trick which in his absence was done unto him, he instantly desisted from prosecuting legal processes in the behalf of others, full of solicitude to pursue after his own business, lest he should be foreclosed, and thereupon he appeared personally at the tribunal of the great Jupiter, displayed before him the importance of his preceding merits, together with the acceptable services which in obedience to his commandments he had formerly performed; and therefore in all humility begged of him that he would be pleased not to leave him alone amongst all the sacred potentates, destitute and void of honour, reverence, sacrifices, and festival ceremonies.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Our own, my dear General,” says the hospitable Baronet, “our own from the country, six years old if a day.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

'It is an illusion,' I said, as I closed my eyes to shut it out; 'it is an illusion, born of opiate fumes or else of an over-taxed brain and an exhausted stomach.'
— from Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton

He likes companions, and quickly will he find himself greeted by a Jason or splendid Ajax, or encounter a flock of his own kind, with whom he may feast by roadside puddle or beds of opening flowers.
— from Birds and All Nature, Vol. 7, No. 5, May 1900 Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

He said: ‘Since, then, the Congress have deserted us in our time of need, there is no alternative but either to protect ourselves by some efficient measures, or surrender up that independence which has been purchased by the blood of our forefathers.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

The blurred image is thought, at the moment of its first perception, to be caused by the object being out of focus, and the observer vainly endeavours to get a sharper image until he finds the source of error lies elsewhere.
— from Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings by William F. (William Frederick) Denning

"Joe" called no living thing, except the cat, his friend; he had many acquaintances, but only one friend.
— from The Dawn of Reason; or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James, Jr.

The La Mode Cloak and Suit Company may turn out to be our old friend Lazarus Epstein; but we have the service of the principal commercial agencies to aid us in becoming better acquainted with our policyholders.
— from White Ashes by Alden Charles Noble

The road taken by the main body of our force makes a bend, which brings it to the bridge at right angles to the river.
— from The Campaign of the Forty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia "The Cadet Regiment" by Charles Eustis Hubbard

It was then that I determined to encamp outside, where we might have our own sentinels, and where, if we were robbed, it would be our own fault."
— from Confessions of a Thug by Meadows Taylor