H2 anchor BRIAR ROSE A king and queen once upon a time reigned in a country a great way off, where there were in those days fairies.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

Persistent Soul-expression A third condition is that the type of imagination must be persistent through fairly long periods of time, otherwise not only will there be an absence of sufficient feeling or momentum to cause the myths to be repeated and kept alive and transmitted to posterity, but the inducement to add to them and so enable them to mature and become complete and finished off and sufficiently attractive to Page 67 appeal to the human mind in spite of the foreign character they often bear will be lacking.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

And this may appear from many other circumstances, and especially from the pontifical rites and funeral obsequies, which men of the greatest genius would not have been so solicitous about, and would not have guarded from any injury by such severe laws, but from a firm persuasion that death was not so entire a destruction as wholly to abolish and destroy everything, but rather a kind of transmigration, as it were, and change of life, which was, in the case of illustrious men and women, usually a guide to heaven, while in that of others it was still confined to the earth, but in such a manner as still to exist.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Yet they do proceed from knowledge; but it is a direct intuitive knowledge, which can neither be reasoned away, nor arrived at by reasoning, a knowledge which, just because it is not abstract, cannot be communicated, but must arise in each for himself, which therefore finds its real and adequate expression not in [pg 478] words, but only in deeds, in conduct, in the course of the life of man.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Methinks my lord should be religious, And know the office that belongs to such.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

' In his Life of Milton he observes, 'I cannot but remark a kind of respect, perhaps unconsciously, paid to this great man by his biographers: every house in which he resided is historically mentioned, as if it were an injury to neglect naming any place that he honoured by his presence.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats,—more's the pity!"
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Expenditure and giving are thought to be the using of money, but receiving and keeping one would rather call the possessing of it.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

by rubbing a knife which has been fixed into s.t. immovable up and down against it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He is probably not at all as we think of him in our dealings with him—a harsh, dictatorial, intolerant autocrat, but rather a kindly soul who likes nothing better than to sit by the fire with his children and read.
— from Of All Things by Robert Benchley

The command of it was given to Colonel Scott-Turner, and it was composed of the best riders and keenest shots that could be found.
— from From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa by William E. Sellers

" We have a glimpse of the feebleness of his new [Pg 151] monarchy as against the fierce soldier who had done so much to make it, in his acknowledgment that he was yet weak, being but recently anointed king, and that these vehement sons of Zeruiah were too strong for him; and we have a remarkable trace of connection with the psalms, in the closing words with which he invokes on Joab the vengeance which he as yet felt himself unable to execute: "The Lord shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness."
— from The Life of David: As Reflected in His Psalms by Alexander Maclaren

Betty remarked and Kit thought her voice was rather hard.
— from Kit Musgrave's Luck by Harold Bindloss

Pope’s Villa at Twickenham — Twickenham Ferry — Richmond: the Meadows and the Park — Richmond: The Terrace from the River 201–228 RICHMOND TO BATTERSEA:— Richmond Bridge — Between Richmond and Kew — Sion House — The River at Kew — The Pagoda in Kew Gardens — Kew Bridge — Cambridge Cottage — High Water at Mortlake — Hogarth’s Tomb —
— from Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea. Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial by Various

If we had selected three days instead of two, as illustrating the wonders of the electric telegraph, we should have had to narrate that on the third day, the 18th of May, Lord Harris announced that the Fusiliers would leave Madras that evening; that Viscount Canning thanked him for his great promptness; that Lord Elphinstone received instructions to send one of 94 the three regiments up the Indus, and the other two round to Calcutta; that he asked and received suggestions about managing a Beloochee regiment at Kurachee; and that messages in great number were transmitted to and from Calcutta, Benares, Allahabad, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Agra, and other large towns.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

may be regarded as king of Judæa, but he exerted no influence upon the course of political events.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 2 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

At the upper end of the bench rose a knoll, golden and green with scrub oaks, and russet-colored with its lichened rocks.
— from Tales of lonely trails by Zane Grey

For a long time Jinnie sat crooning over and over the verses she’d learned from Lafe, and bye-and-bye she heard Peg breathing regularly and knew she slept.
— from Rose O'Paradise by Grace Miller White