From the facts alone that many of these English turf mazes are clearly copied from those in the Continental churches, and practically all are found close to some ecclesiastical building or near the site of an ancient one, we may regard it as certain that they were of church origin and not invented by the shepherds or other rustics.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

How sweet it was to see the clouds race by, and the passing gleams of the moonlight between the scudding clouds crossing and passing—like the gladness and sorrow of a man’s life; how sweet it was to breathe the fresh air, that had no taint of death and decay; how humanising to see the red lighting of the sky beyond the hill, and to hear far away the muffled roar that marks the life of a great city.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Related Words : Compra , purchase ; comprador , purchaser ; gastar , to spend ; ser parroquiano , or cliente , or consumidor , to be a customer ; comprar al contado , to buy for cash ; comprar a plazo , to buy on time .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

We must also remember that the differences in the situation of the savage and of the neurotic may be important enough to exclude complete correspondence and prevent a point by point transfer from one to the other such as would be possible if we were dealing with exact copies.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

Here comes a murderer with his clanking chains, and pairs himself—horrible to tell—with as pure and upright a man, in all observable respects, as ever partook of the consecrated bread and wine.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Cannot our critics conceive that a biennial plant or one of the lower animals might range into a cold climate and perish there every winter; and yet, owing to advantages gained through natural selection, survive from year to year by means of its seeds or ova?
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

They represented qualities that she felt and despised in herself—incipient meanness, conceit, cowardice, and petty dishonesty.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

To Dorothea's inexperienced sensitiveness, it seemed like a catastrophe, changing all prospects; and to Mr. Casaubon it was a new pain, he never having been on a wedding journey before, or found himself in that close union which was more of a subjection than he had been able to imagine, since this charming young bride not only obliged him to much consideration on her behalf (which he had sedulously given), but turned out to be capable of agitating him cruelly just where he most needed soothing.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The flatterers of Alexander the Great possessed him that he was the son of Jupiter; but being one day wounded, and observing the blood stream from his wound: “What say you now, my masters,” said he, “is not this blood of a crimson colour and purely human?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

B. The Punishment of Rebel Capua, 211 B.C. Ad septuaginta principes senatus interfecti, trecenti ferme nobiles Campani in carcerem conditi; alii per sociorum Latini nominis urbes in custodias 10 dati variis casibus interierunt; multitudo alia civium Campanorum venum data.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

As they seated themselves, one of the men took out his cigar case and passed it to the other.
— from Hidden Treasure: The Story of a Chore Boy Who Made the Old Farm Pay by John Thomas Simpson

“If you feel that way, dear boy, you should remember that every girl is some one’s daughter, perhaps some one’s sister, will probably be some one’s 20 wife and some one’s mother, so that all girls should be sacred to you, treated with chivalrous courtesy and protected even as you feel you would protect those who may belong especially to you.”
— from Almost A Man by Mary Wood-Allen

In the North, and in Suffolk, it is called “Cocks,” “a puerile game with the tough tufted stems of the ribwort plantain” (Brockett’s North Country Words ).
— from The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc. by Alice Bertha Gomme

The following educational privileges according to the various classes classified as Panchama may be noted:— (1) They are admitted into schools at half the standard rates of fees.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 6 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

During the day the resort of bird mites is in the droppings and in the woodwork, etc., of cages in which canaries, crossbills and parrots are kept; in the crevices of doors, in the chinks between the board planks of bedsteads, so that at night they may seek some domestic animal to suck the blood and so satisfy their hunger.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

When done take off the upper crust carefully, and put a piece of butter of the size of a walnut, into each pie, sweeten them to your taste, if not acid enough, squeeze in the juice of part of a lemon, or put in a little tartaric acid, dissolved in a little water.
— from The New England Cook Book, or Young Housekeeper's Guide Being a Collection of the Most Valuable Receipts; Embracing all the Various Branches of Cookery, and Written in a Minute and Methodical Manner by Anonymous

The art or mystery of manufacturing spurious and counterfeit wines and liquors forms a regular trade of great extent in this metropolis, and is carried on with so much skill and ingenuity, and has attained so great perfection, as to render the irony of the witty 13 author of the Tatler no longer figurative; namely, that “the transmutation of liquors under the streets of London was so perfect, that the operators by the power of magical drugs could convert a plantation of northern hedges into a vineyard; could raise the choicest products of the hills and valleys of France under the streets of London; could squeeze Bourdeaux out of the sloe, and Champagne from the apple.”
— from Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked Disease and Death in the Pot and Bottle by Anonymous

Should he prove victorious in the present Continental contest, another peace, and not the most advantageous, will again be signed with your country—a peace which, I fear, will leave him absolute master of all Continental States.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various