When children learn about ritual circumcision they identify it with castration.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

In the same way I completely lack any reliable criterion for ascertaining what constitutes a prick of conscience: from all accounts a prick of conscience does not seem to be a very estimable thing....
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

An unknown utterance answered: "Pass!" IV. Whitened with grain see Egypt's lengthened plains, Far as the eyesight farthest space contains, Like a rich carpet spread their varied hues.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Whenever possible, the question "why?" should not only educe the cause as cause, but rather a certain kind of cause—a comforting, liberating and reassuring cause.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Birthwort, Asarabacca, Aron, Waterflag, white Dittany, Asphodel, Garlick, Centaury the less, Cyperus long and round, Costus, Capers, Calamus Aromaticus, Dittany of Crete, Carrots, Eringo, Fennel, Parsly, Smallage, Grass, Elicampane, Peony, Valerian, Knee-holly, &c.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Equipment can break down or get lost, water can leak away, records can be destroyed by fire, the minister can be delayed or the church burn down.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

ith gilt poles on the carefully leveled and rolled croquet-ground.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

CHAPTER LXIV A ROYAL CAPTIVE
— from Cressy and Poictiers: The Story of the Black Prince's Page by John G. (John George) Edgar

To the west of the six southerly chambers lies a rectangular court, 35·20 metres from north to south and 25·80 metres from east to west, with round towers like those of the main palace, projecting 2·75 metres.
— from Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture by Gertrude Lowthian Bell

And when I did see it, there were the girls, shameless in the moonlight and dancing—the girls upon whom I had worked to teach clean living and right conduct.
— from The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii by Jack London

The bishops of Carlisle live at Rose Castle, five miles south of the Cathedral.
— from Stories of the Scottish Border by William Platt

She sang very small now in Markham's scheme of things and sat very quietly in her chair, like a rebellious child which has been punished by being put alone in a corner.
— from Madcap by George Gibbs

It's the middle of the afternoon before I jumps the way train at a little mountain station, and then I has to hunt up a jay with a buckboard and take a ten-mile drive over a course like a roller coaster.
— from On With Torchy by Sewell Ford

I confess, to my shame, that I quitted Burgundy without regret; for childhood loves and requires change.
— from Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

Government Malta Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Malta conventional short form: Malta local short form: Malta local long form: Repubblika ta' Malta Government type: republic Capital: Valletta Administrative divisions: none (administered directly from Valletta); note - Local Councils carry out administrative orders Independence: 21 September 1964 (from UK) National holiday: Independence Day, 21 September (1964) Constitution: 1964 constitution substantially amended on 13 December 1974 and again in 1987 Legal system: based on English common law and Roman civil law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state:
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency