B And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

"Of course," Otto agreed, and his next remark was called forth by Van Alen's pale blue pajamas.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

Then followed Aër (Air), which was in close proximity to Gæa, and represented, as its name implies, the grosser atmosphere surrounding the earth which mortals could freely breathe, and without which they would perish.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

While one in straits on the townward bridge did not mind who saw him so, and kept his back to the parapet to survey the passers-by, one in straits on this never faced the road, never turned his head at coming footsteps, but, sensitive to his own condition, watched the current whenever a stranger approached, as if some strange fish interested him, though every finned thing had been poached out of the river years before.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Now if it was a perfect, unrestrained, and absolute expression of force, as we had to deduct it from its mere conception, then the moment it is called forth by policy it would step into the place of policy, and as something quite independent of it would set it aside, and only follow its own laws, just as a mine at the moment of explosion cannot be guided into any other direction than that which has been given to it by preparatory arrangements.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Morgan's attacking force succeeded in getting across the causeway and marsh, but he did not go with it, nor support it with more men, and a large number were captured from Blair's brigade after gaining the enemy's last line of works covering the bayou.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

One third of it thou canst well spare to us for thy entertainment and that of thy train, for thou art very rich; one third of it thou canst better spare for charity, for, Bishop, I hear that thou art a hard master to those beneath thee and a close hoarder of gains that thou couldst better and with more credit to thyself give to charity than spend upon thy own likings.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

First the steeple went, and then the whole body of the old church was in a sheet of flame, and there was barely time left to save the historic Royal Arms which Captain Frank B. Hazen got out of the building, and a few prayer books in the vestry, and the minister's surplices, which Colonel Chas.
— from The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 by George Stewart

Symphony Society of New York City founded by Dr. Leopold Damrosch.
— from Annals of Music in America: A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events by Henry Charles Lahee

"Why this especial care for Baring's feelings?"
— from The Double Traitor by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

f first to be mobilized in Russo-Japanese war, III 94 f families of mobilized P. expelled, III 95 accused of revolutionary propaganda, III 156 Piast , progenitor of Piast dynasty in Poland, I 40 Piatoli , secretary of Polish king, assists Jews, I 291 Pidyon , contribution of Hasidim, term explained, II 119 Pikolski , monk at Lemberg, conducts agitation against Jews, I 174 Pilpul , method of talmudic dialectics, fostered in Poland, I 119 f carried from Bohemia to Poland, I 122 opposed by Solomon Luria, I 256 grafted upon by Cabala, I 135, II 117 shunned by Elijah of Vilna, I 236 Pinkasevich, Jacob , Jewish martyr in Posen, I 175 Pinsk , important community in Lithuania, I 73 Jewish community of, represented in Lithuanian
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3] From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day by Simon Dubnow

“This case fairly bristles with women,” mused Edwin Sykes.
— from Tom Pinder, Foundling: A Story of the Holmfirth Flood by D. F. E. Sykes

This difficulty would appear valid, were there nothing in the idea of God thus given us, to furnish rejoinders, such for example, as the following.—How could the Supreme Judge make any difference between those who are His anxious servants, and those who turn away from His infinite purity with hatred or indifference, if all men were alike overwhelmed in one common failure by reason of an inexorable law?
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

They gave the boy at first a queer, uncanny sensation, and something like a chill, followed by a tingling flush of heat, passed over him.
— from Dick Merriwell Abroad; Or, The Ban of the Terrible Ten by Burt L. Standish

Hence, while the seeds of very many cultivated vegetables lose their vitality in two or three years, and can be transported safely to distant countries only with great precautions, the weeds that infest those vegetables, though not cared for by man, continue to accompany him in his migrations, and find a new home on every soil he colonizes.
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

ABBOTT & WALKER, INC. Advertising campaign for bakeries and ice cream manufacturers and general business.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

You shall have no sugar to-night, mister cockatoo, for biting your friends.'
— from The Green Hand: Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant by George Cupples