The claim to the latter designation was doubtless helped by the word brahma often occurring in the Atharva-veda itself with the sense of “charm,” and by the fact that the Veda contains a larger amount of theosophic matter ( brahmavidyā ) than any other Saṃhitā.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Seryozha gazed at his chest and listened attentively (he liked talking to his father in the evening), then he leaned his elbow on the edge of the table and began screwing up his short-sighted eyes at the papers and the inkstand.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But it is a custom, a low and a paltry custom, picked up by low and paltry spirits who have no sense of honor, no regard to decency, but are forced to substitute some rhapsody of nonsense to supply the vacancy of good sense.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

She is a very good companion as long as she is well
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

When poured out, he took it and looked at it with a sharp, complacent air, like a man who thinks he has done about the right thing, and hit the nail on the head, and proceeded to dispose of it in short and well-advised sips.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

!” cried Mr. Lorry, rubbing his chin, and looking at his visitor dubiously.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

All three got out of the carriage and looked at one another.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

His superior turning his chair a little, and crossing his thin legs, leaned sideways on his elbow, with one hand shading his eyes.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

And as Nature, who gives supplies of food to every creature, dictates even naturally how to make use of it, so I, that had never milked a cow, much less a goat, or seen butter or cheese made only when I was a boy, after a great many essays and miscarriages, made both butter and cheese at last, also salt (though I found it partly made to my hand by the heat of the sun upon some of the rocks of the sea), and never wanted it afterwards.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

be hungry &c. adj.; have a good appetite, play a good knife and fork; hunger after, thirst after, crave after, lust after, itch after, hanker after, run mad after; raven for, die for; burn to.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

After I had conversed with the Czar as long as I thought decorum permitted, I rose to depart.
— from Devereux — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"Go forth, my child, and laugh and play, And let your cheerful voice With birds, and brooks, and merry May, Cry loud, Rejoice!
— from Little Songs by Eliza Lee Cabot Follen

In the dwarf tree garden at the Massachusetts Agricultural College the writer has a row of plum trees containing a large assortment of varieties and species.
— from Dwarf Fruit Trees Their propagation, pruning, and general management, adapted to the United States and Canada by F. A. (Frank Albert) Waugh

* There was yet more than an hour before supper-time when he rode into the court at last; and Dick Sampson, his own groom, came to take his horse from him.
— from Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson

The Count was profuse in his apologies when he discovered that he had been chasing a live ambassador; but the occurrence so exasperated Soliman that he increased his demands in consequence.
— from Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean: The grand period of the Moslem corsairs by E. Hamilton (Edward Hamilton) Currey

For generations and for centuries in succession Religion maintained an undisputed sway over men's minds—if not always as a practical guide in matters of conduct, at least as a regulator of belief.
— from Thoughts on Religion by George John Romanes

He was dead; and as men like to deal out censure as long as it can cause pain, and scatter praise when it can no longer create happiness, Radcliffe, the physician, the friend of suffering humanity, the benefactor of ancient and Tory Oxford, was spoken of in "most handsome terms."
— from A Book About Doctors by John Cordy Jeaffreson

It is a loud, rolling “Chuck-a-chuck-a-chuck,” almost like a bird-song, and Chippy is very proud of it.
— from Everyday Adventures by Samuel Scoville

She might object to Throckmorton’s profession, to his being in what she continued to call the Yankee army, to his twenty-odd years’ seniority, to his not being a member of the church; as like as not this was the very rock on which Throckmorton’s ship would split.
— from Throckmorton: A Novel by Molly Elliot Seawell