But whatever scraps of information concerning his condition these researches may have rescued, they can shed no light upon that infinite invention which is the concealed magnet of his attraction for us.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Come!' He crossed his hands on his lap and smiled, as a man may who has won salvation for himself and his beloved.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

With this additional force he completed his captured works for better defence, and built back from his right, so as to protect his flank.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

I called her Countess Blasin, and introduced her to my mother and relations, and put her in my best room.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

If Spain could have confined herself to closer watchfulness and to enforcing in her own waters vexatious customs regulations, not essentially different from those sanctioned by the general commercial ideas of that day, perhaps no further harm would have resulted; but the condition of things and the temper of her government would not let her stop there.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

[Cromwell had considered the 3rd of September as the most fortunate day of his life, on account of his victories at Dunbar and Worcester.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Caitif , adj. and sb. captive, miserable wretch, MD, W, C3, H; caytif , C2; caytiue , P; caitifes , pl. , S3; caytiues , S3; kaytefes , S2.—AF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

This Horatius was surnamed Cocles because he had lost an eye in the wars, or as some say because of the flatness of his nose, which made his eyes and eyebrows seem to meet, having nothing to separate them, and therefore the people meaning to call him Cyclops, by a mistake of pronunciation, named him Cocles.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

And now that Paris, with his effeminate crew, his chin and oozy hair swathed in the turban of Maeonia, takes and keeps her; since to thy temples we bear oblation, and hallow an empty name.'
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Surely this zeal for the Church has carried him too far.
— from Robert Burns by Gabriel Setoun

The ambassadors sent by the senate to determine a dispute between Masinissa and the Carthaginians return, and report that the Carthaginians had collected a vast quantity of materials for ship-building.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

Her chin had certainly its share in forming the beauty of her face; but it was difficult to say it was either large or small, though perhaps it was rather of the former kind.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

According to Miss Czaplicka, hysteria (common in Siberia) is at the bottom of the shaman’s vocation: but it is not merely a matter of climate; for the Rev. E. T. Bryant writes of the Zulus—“the great majority of diviners being clearly of neurotic type”;
— from The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by Carveth Read

When the stores clerk has completed his records and the foreman has received the material, both copies are to be sent to the cost department.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 02 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

She was left last night, as usual, to turn out the lights and all that; and instead of going to bed she changed her clothes and went right off: her bed wasn't slept in.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

For with the charge of the child had come a courage, even as the dead woman had known, when she thought of her charge of Allen, that she was not afraid to die.
— from Friendship Village Love Stories by Zona Gale

The Commission has concluded that some of the advance preparations in Dallas made by the Secret Service, such as the detailed security measures taken at Love Field and the Trade Mart, were thorough and well executed.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

"He has been using the money of the firm for his own speculations, and in my opinion he means to run away with all the cash he can put his hands on.
— from Desk and Debit; or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk by Oliver Optic