By carefully comparing and studying the endings already given (Examples 56 and 57) with the following, the student no doubt can obtain an idea of the proper method to be followed in such cases.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so customed; for his sleep Was aery-light, from pure digestion bred, And temperate vapours bland, which the only sound Of leaves and fuming rills, Aurora's fan, Lightly dispersed, and the shrill matin song Of birds on every bough; so much the more His wonder was to find unwakened Eve With tresses discomposed, and glowing cheek, As through unquiet rest: He, on his side Leaning half raised, with looks of cordial love Hung over her enamoured, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces; then with voice Mild, as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes, Her hand soft touching, whispered thus.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

The witticisms of the local dandies failed to make her laugh; the steepness of the declivity beside which she was standing caused her no alarm, although the other ladies uttered shrill cries and shut their eyes.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

It is this, then, which Elias will do, "lest," he says, "I come and smite the earth utterly."
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

And there be also of other beasts, as great and more greater than is a destrier, and men clepe them Loerancs; and some men clepe them odenthos; and they have a black head and three long horns trenchant in the front, sharp as a sword, and the body is slender; and he is a full felonious beast, and he chaseth and slayeth the elephant.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

It makes bureaucracies tenacious, and causes their character and spirit to endure in spite of all shifting of individuals.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

When I went to bed, my hands were not made of egg-shells; and now I can almost see through ‘em.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Cada cousa a seu tempo —Everything has its time.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Amelia, womanlike, got quite concerned, and said to Elias P. in a warning voice: 'Oh!
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

He had been able in the field to do the duty of captain and soldier, to endure fatigue and exposure, and every privation except fasting.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) by John Lothrop Motley

It is even said that he contemplated abolishing the Inquisition, but Philip IV was too profoundly convinced of its necessity to both Church and State to entertain the project, and there may well be truth in the assertion that his quarrel with the Holy Office was contributory to his downfall.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

To this he answered that he was absolutely certain that it was the Empress who had given him the invitation and urged him to come and save the Emperor's life.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White

Brasseur de Bourbourg, one of the few investigators who have explored them, says: “Previous to the history of the Toltec domination in Mexico, we notice in the annals of the country two facts of great importance, but equally obscure in their details: first, the tradition concerning the landing of a foreign race, conducted by an illustrious personage, who came from an eastern country; and, second, the existence of an ancient empire known as Huehue-Tlapalan, from which the Toltecs or Nahuas came to Mexico, in consequence of a revolution or invasion, and from which they had a long and toilsome migration to the Aztec plateau.”
— from Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology by John D. (John Denison) Baldwin

Vitovt, whom we have named as the last of four chieftains, who secured unity to the tribes of his country, and sought to establish an independent nationality, did not lose courage nor ambition by the disaster at the Vorskla (1399).
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, June 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

Usually the shade trees are planted about 40 feet apart, but there are cacao plantations which might cause a stranger to enquire, "Is this an Immortel plantation?"
— from Cocoa and Chocolate: Their History from Plantation to Consumer by Arthur William Knapp

This must have great influence to convince all, who are willing to be convinced.—Can any shut their eyes upon the light, which is exhibited to us from this passage?
— from Twenty-four Discourses On Some of the Important and Interesting Truths, Duties, and Institutions, of the Gospel, and the General Excellency of the Christian Religion; Calculated for the People of God of Every Communion, Particularly for the Benefit of Pious Families, and the Instruction of All in the Things Which Concern Their Salvation by Nathan Perkins

As all the grandeur of Don John, on the contrary, consists in war, as there is nothing which he so much abhors as repose, as he has given ample proof of these inclinations in all his designs and enterprises, both before and after the Treaty of Marche en Famine, both within the country and beyond its borders, as it is most manifest that his purpose is, and ever has been, to embroil us with our neighbours of England and Scotland in new dissensions, as it must be evident to every one of you that his pretended accusations against me are but colors and shadows to embellish and to shroud his own desire for war, his appetite for vengeance, and his hatred not only to me but to yourselves, and as his determination is, in the words of Escovedo, to chastise some of us by means of the rest, and to excite the jealousy of one portion of the country against the other—therefore, gentlemen, do I most affectionately exhort you to found your decision, as to these matters, not upon words but upon actions.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84) by John Lothrop Motley

At that moment a white beard grew from her chin, and she thus escaped the pursuit of the Segbán.
— from Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II by Evliya Çelebi