"Then you didn't think, at all events," proceeded Mr. Skimpole, "to this effect: 'Harold Skimpole loves to see the sun shine, loves to hear the wind blow, loves to watch the changing lights and shadows, loves to hear the birds, those choristers in Nature's great cathedral.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Then, on tomorrow’s dawn, your care employ, To search the land, and where the cities lie, And what the men; but give this day to joy.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Names, in so far as they are matters of law, are subject to canon law; at any rate, the law upon the subject, such as it is, originated in canon law, and not in statute or common law.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

I am astonished, in the history of Selim, the most cruel conqueror that ever was, to see that when he subdued Egypt, the beautiful gardens about Damascus being all open, and in a conquered land, and his army encamped upon the very place, should be left untouched by the hands of the soldiers, by reason they had not received the signal of pillage.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

This was occupied by Col. Lloyd and his family.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

I joined Capt Lewis and the party at 6 miles, at which place the river washed the bottom of high Clifts on the N. Side.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But when they had a chance of beholding one another, neither could look away; so steadfast was the love that made their eyes linger.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

They are wealthy and mercantile, of consequence liberal and adventurous, and so well disposed to take a man's own word for his importance, that they suffer themselves to be preyed upon by such a bungling set of impostors, as would starve for lack of address in any other country under the sun.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

with Miss Clewes, Liz., and Ma rnne , and it is but roughish weather for any one in a tender state.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

If I began any species of activity,—to write, load my kodak, read, or even to wash my hands, the human stream was clogged like a log-raft against a snag and the population stacked up about my door until a well-aimed anything broke the keystone log, and gave me again for a moment light and air.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck

Under the shed we arranged some tussocks of dried grass so that we could be seated low down; and thus ranged in a sociable triangle we worked, chatted, laughed, and joked; the old gentleman revived his experiences of former years; and altogether it was a very pleasant time.
— from The Spanish Galleon Being an account of a search for sunken treasure in the Caribbean Sea. by Charles Sumner Seeley

Marie, however, had knelt down, sobbing; and, whilst the canticle lasted, a burning prayer of faith and love ascended from her whole being.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 4 by Émile Zola

Government Uganda Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Uganda conventional short form: Uganda Government type: republic Capital: Kampala Administrative divisions: 45 districts; Adjumani, Apac, Arua, Bugiri, Bundibugyo, Bushenyi, Busia, Gulu, Hoima, Iganga, Jinja, Kabale, Kabarole, Kalangala, Kampala, Kamuli, Kapchorwa, Kasese, Katakwi, Kibale, Kiboga, Kisoro, Kitgum, Kotido, Kumi, Lira, Luwero, Masaka, Masindi, Mbale, Mbarara, Moroto, Moyo, Mpigi, Mubende, Mukono, Nakasongola, Nebbi, Ntungamo, Pallisa, Rakai, Rukungiri, Sembabule, Soroti, Tororo note: there may be eleven more districts: Kaberamaido, Kamwenge, Kanungu, Kayunga, Kyenjojo, Mayngc, Nakapiripiti, Pader, Sironko, Wakiso, Yumbe Independence: 9 October 1962 (from UK) National holiday: Independence Day, 9 October (1962) Constitution: 8 October 1995; adopted by the interim, 284-member Constituent Assembly, charged with debating the draft constitution that had been proposed in May 1993; the Constituent Assembly was dissolved upon the promulgation of the constitution in October 1995 Legal system: in 1995, the government restored the legal system to one based on English common law and customary law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state:
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

These creatures, like all others, sooner or later die, and their shells and hard parts lie at the bottom; and then the fine mud which is being constantly brought down by rivers and the action of the wear and tear of the sea, covers them over and protects them from any further change or alteration; and, of course, as in process of time the mud becomes hardened and solidified, the shells of these animals are preserved and firmly imbedded in the limestone or sandstone which is being thus formed.
— from Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Thomas Henry Huxley

The instructors and others cheered lustily, and the ladies waved their handkerchiefs vigorously.
— from All Taut; or, Rigging the boat by Oliver Optic

These are astonishing in their diversity and complexity, but nevertheless they fulfil themselves according to known chemical laws, and they can be imitated apart from the living substance.
— from Naturalism and Religion by Rudolf Otto

"Of course the men I know don't seem to mind whether a girl is helpless or not, if she can look and act the way they want her to.
— from Under the Country Sky by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

Had the habit been reversed, we should have viewed the former with appetite and the latter with abhorrence, as do the Arabs, "who are as much astonished at our eating crabs, lobsters, and oysters, as we are at their eating locusts
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 1 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

He expresses his indignation vigorously at some length, showing plainly his own sympathies then makes Furini pray a very beautiful prayer, then deliver before a supposed cultured London audience a long and decidedly recondite speech containing an attack upon that species of agnosticism that allies itself with positivism and Furini's refutation.
— from Poet-Lore: A Quarterly Magazine of Letters. April, May, June, 1900 by Various