To find the mysterious treasure he was to till the earth around his mother's dwelling and reap its products; instead of warlike command or regal or religious sway, he was to rule over the village children; and now the visionary maid had faded from his fancy, and in her place he saw the playmate of his childhood.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Those men inform that they passed thro a open Plain all the way to the Town a feiw Trees excepted on the watercourses—they Cross the papillion or the Butterfly Creek within a feiw miles of Camp and near the Village a handsm.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In all of these aspects, egoism is the self-evident, the constant, and narcism the variable element.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

To die before the snowdrop came, and now the violet's here.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

To the defenders of the laws of Copernicus and Newton, to Voltaire for example, it seemed that the laws of astronomy destroyed religion, and he utilized the law of gravitation as a weapon against religion.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

When every other traditional belief had been shaken to its foundations, when men were taught to doubt the evidence of their own senses, it was not to be expected that the conventional laws of conduct, at no time very exact or consistent, would continue to be accepted on the authority of ancient usage.
— from The Greek Philosophers, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Alfred William Benn

We have already hinted that his perspicuity in philosophical discussions is in advance of his subtlety, for the reason that he keeps well on the surface, and exhibits a commendable anxiety not to venture beyond his depth.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Now on the Gallic board the Britons rush, The intrepid Gauls the rash adventurers crush; And now, to vengeance Stung, with frantic air, Back on the British maindeck roll the war.
— from The Columbiad: A Poem by Joel Barlow

Knowing the swiftness of that approach, and what the early light would bring, I strove for a courage which should be the steadfastness of the Christian, and not the vainglorious pride of the heathen.
— from To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston

You may not have much scientific knowledge yourself, but if you have observation, you can accurately note the various phenomena you meet with, and give your descriptions to those who will make good use of them.
— from In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston

Some of the life women have been in the kitchen and mess-room as long as three and four years, and, as neither the culinary arrangements nor the ventilation are modern, the consequent physical and mental depression arising from these defects, and the monotony of the work, is only too apparent.
— from Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years by Florence Elizabeth Maybrick

(These as they change are not the varied god as it is generally supposed to be, but various workings of the intellect).
— from The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) by Valmiki

—Let us now take a hasty glance backward for a century and note the vast changes that have taken place in the matter of daily living during this time.
— from The Story of American History for Elementary Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

Through many checkered scenes have we passed together, both on the land and the sea, at home and in foreign countries; and now the voyage of life is almost ended.
— from A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton