A portrait of Lady Hamilton hung in his cabin; and no Catholic ever beheld the picture of his patron saint with devouter reverence.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

The profoundly earnest way in which we criticise and narrowly consider every part of a woman, while she on her part considers us; the scrupulously careful way we scrutinise, a woman who is beginning to please us; the fickleness of our choice; the strained attention with which a man watches his fiancée ; the care he takes not to be deceived in any trait; and the great importance he attaches to every more or less essential trait,—all this is quite in keeping with the importance of the end.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

When, however, a good formation is adopted and the advantages mentioned above are also present, the [Pg 313] victory is more certain; and nothing can excuse the use of a vicious formation.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

If you do not succumb to the muchacho custom, you will get rid of the $50 in other ways fairly classifiable as necessary current expenses.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

In what manner?” The old woman replied: “Oh, as to that, these cards are not certain enough.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Yet they are all ready to arm, and if an exigency require, armies are presently raised, powerful and abounding as they are in men and horses; and even when they are quiet and their weapons laid aside, their credit and name continue equally high.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

These idiotic compliments are not current except in the middle class.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Joe, too far gone to be malignant; Pike, crippled and limping, only half conscious and not conscious enough longer to malinger; Sol-leks, the one-eyed, still faithful to the toil of trace and trail, and mournful in that he had so little strength with which to pull; Teek, who had not travelled so far that winter and who was now beaten more than the others because he was fresher; and Buck, still at the head of the team, but no longer enforcing discipline or striving to enforce it, blind with weakness half the time and keeping the trail by the loom of it and by the dim feel of his feet.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

V. practice sorcery &c.n.; cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo; entrance, mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate &c. (influence) 615; taboo; wave a wand; rub the ring, rub the lamp; cast a spell; call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep; raise spirits from the dead.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The son, for instance, is brought up to the Church, and nothing can exceed the pride and pleasure the father takes in him while all goes on well in this favourite direction.
— from Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt

Perhaps, if you ever chanced to hear a conversation about nobody could exactly say what, you noticed that nobody did say anything very exactly, and everybody talked like these two gentlemen, who certainly had heard something, but who decided that they hadn't, because they couldn't find out what it was.
— from A Likely Story by William De Morgan

"Châlons," so the tale went, had paid a war contribution, and nobody could enter the town.
— from A German deserter's war experience by Anonymous

It is indeed interesting to note here the existence at Kensington of a seau in Staffordshire salt-glazed stoneware with relief ornament copied from a St. Cloud model; but this is an isolated case, and imitations of St. Cloud are not common even among the productions of French factories.
— from A Book of Porcelain: Fine examples in the Victoria & Albert Museum by Bernard Rackham

“The depositions and answers were sworn before Edward Byam, Esq., one of the council, and Nathaniel Crump, Esq., speaker of the house of assembly, and were ordered to be sealed with the broad seal of the island, and forwarded immediately to England.”
— from Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 1 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Mrs. Lanaghan

How utterly baseless these Page 163 [163] presumptuous anthropocentric conceptions are, nothing could evince more strikingly than a comparison of the duration of the Anthropozoic or Quaternary Epoch with that of the preceding Epochs."
— from The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Rudolf Schmid

A portrait of Lady Hamilton hung in his cabin; and no Catholic ever beheld the picture of his patron saint with more devout reverence.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Elbert Hubbard

Owing to their extreme shiftiness of soil, the Dunes can attain no considerable elevation.
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin