When a troubadour professed his readiness to obey his lady in all things, he made it incumbent upon the next comer, if he wished to avoid the imputation of tameness and commonplace, to declare himself the slave of her will, which the next was compelled to cap by some still stronger declaration; and so expressions of devotion went on rising one above the other like biddings at an auction, and a conventional language of gallantry and theory of love came into being that in time permeated the literature of Southern Europe, and bore fruit, in one direction in the transcendental worship of Beatrice and Laura, and in another in the grotesque idolatry which found exponents in writers like Feliciano de Silva.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

In any actual settlement, adjustments would be required in connection with certain loans of gold and also in other respects, and I am concerned in what follows with the broad principle only.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

The Cherokee nation, west of the Mississippi, having by this agreement freed themselves from the harassing and ruinous effects consequent upon a location amidst a white population, and secured to themselves and their posterity, under the solemn sanction of the guarantee of the United States as contained in this agreement, a large extent of unembarrassed country; and that their brothers yet remaining in the states may be induced to join them and enjoy the repose and blessings of such a state in the future, it is further agreed on the part of the United States that to each head of a Cherokee family now residing within the chartered limits of Georgia, or of either of the states east of the Mississippi, who may desire to remove west, shall be given, on enrolling himself for emigration, a good rifle, a blanket, a kettle, and five pounds of tobacco; (and to each member of his family one blanket), also a just compensation for the property he may abandon, to be assessed by persons to be appointed by the President of the United States.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

This costs us nothing, and saves the life, or at least the liberty, of a fellow-creature, who on the first occasion returns the service by pointing out some safe spot where we can land our goods without interruption.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

—If we could live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn’t have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

If you have, through friends in common, long heard of a certain lady, or gentleman, and you know that she, or he, also has heard much of you, you may say when you are introduced to her: "I am very glad to meet you," or "I am delighted to meet you at last!"
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The common life of Greece is not enough for them; they must penetrate deeper into the nature of things.
— from The Republic by Plato

HERS was a lonely, shadowed lot; Or so the unperceiving thought, Who looked no deeper than her face, Devoid of chiseled lines of grace— No farther than her humble grate, And wondered how she bore her fate.
— from New Thought Pastels by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Twelve times in every revolution of the sun this christed Love of God is made full manifest in flesh upon the planes of earth, and you may read in Akasha the wondrous lessons that these Christs have taught to men; but you shall publish not to men the lessons of the Christs of ancient times.
— from The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of The Church Universal by Levi

But it is a case where, if the Allies wished to strain a point, they could impose contingent liability on Germany without running seriously contrary to the general intention of their engagements.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Perhaps it was because of a certain look of genuine confidence and solicitude in John Brown's honest face that the Curate's heart was moved.
— from The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

These quotations read so much per case, and are usually case count, with a reservation, however, of the privilege to reject or charge loss on goods that are utterly bad.
— from The Dollar Hen by Milo Hastings

LXXXVI On the ensanguined corse, in sorrow drowned, The damsel throws herself, in her despair, And shrieks so lout that wood and plain resound For many miles about; nor does she spare Bosom or cheek; but still, with cruel wound, One and the other smites the afflicted fair; And wrongs her curling lock of golden grain, Aye calling on the well-loved youth in vain.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

Mr. May was in such good spirits at this moment that he could afford to joke; his own magnanimity, and the other's confused looks of guilt, overcame his gravity.
— from Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

cis Drake and, 177 Prince Zeyn Alasnam, story of, 42 Proctor, R. A., 60 Prose Edda, 71 Prospero, 70 Pryce's Mineralogia Cornubiensis, 32 Pseudosia Epidemica, 83 Pyromancy, 47 Pythagoras, 84 R Rashi, 77 Red Riding Hood, 5 , 6 Rhabdomancy, 28 , 39 Rhea, 19 Riley's Book of Days, 64 Rink, Dr., 63 Rod, Moses', 25 , 26 of the house of Levi, 25 the, 23 the divining, 30 , 32 Roman legend, 124 Romeo and Juliet, 79 Rona in the Moon, 62 Roof of the World, the, 100 Rosemary, 123 Roses, Feast of the, 125 Rue as a disinfectant, 162 as salad, 152 derivation of, 150 in Aristotle, 153 , 159 in Drayton, 153 in Ellacombe's Plant-Lore of Shakespeare, 149 in French perfumery, 152 in Milton, 151 in Parkinson, 151 in Pliny, 157 in Shakespeare, 149 , 153 in Spenser, 151 in Warburton's works, 152 Ruskin's Queen of the Air, 4 Russian legend, 94 , 110 Ruth, 150 Ryence, King, 50 S St. Brandan, 117 St. Cecilia, legend of, 129 St. Christophoros, story of, 26 St. David, legends of, 171 St. David's Day, origin of, 171 St. Joseph, legend of, 127 St. Nicholas, 93 St. Patrick, 131 St. Peter, legend of, 109 St. Peter's Day, 110 [Pg 209] St. Ursula, 2 , 3 Satan, 79 , 85 Saturn, 8 , 19 , 20 Scandinavian legend, 61 Schliemann, Dr., 194 Sea chanties, 119 , 120 Septuagint, the, 49 Shakespeare, 2 , 62 , 79 Sharpe, Charles Kirkpatrick, 92 Shelvocke's voyages, 106 Shew Stone, 50 Sicilian legend, 73 Sidney, Sir Philip, 72 Solomon's Temple, 196 Soma, 63 , 87 , 89 , 90 , 193 Song of Sixpence, 5 Sorcerer's Root, 78 Spring Myths, 10 Stormy petrel, 99 Sung-Yun and the Pamirs, 200 Superstitions: Accadian, 16 Aztec, 16 Bushmen, 21 Chinese, 75 Greek, 16 Highland, 10 , 12 Jewish, 16 , 76 Nautical, 98 , 100 , 117 Peruvian, 16 Red Indian, 16 , 20 Sicilian, 16 Syrian legend, 92 T Talmudic legend, 92 Tannhäuser, 3 Tylor's Primitive Culture, 5 , 65 Tempest, the, 70 Theal's Kaffir Folklore, 18 Thiselton-Dyer, 31 , 34 , 64 , 78 , 100 , 131 , 145 Thistle, the, 132 Stewart, Dr., on, 135 of Dioscorides, 134 Timbs, 79 True Thomas of Ercildoune, 3 Tûtenganahaû, story of, 20 Tweed, the, 10 Tylor, 6 , 65 Typhœus, 117 U Ulysses, 42 Urim and Thummim, 49 V Vampire, the, 70 Vedic Agni, 2 Venus, 30 Venus's looking-glass, 49 Verne, Jules, 59 Vervain of the Druids, 158 Friend on the, 159 of the Greeks, 158 Thiselton-Dyer on, 158 Virgin Mary, 106 Von Bülow's Christian Legends of Germany, 26 Vulcan's mirror, 49 W Warburton, 152 Warts, the cure of, 160 'White Rose Day,' 125 [Pg 210] Winslow, Forbes, 76 Winter's Tale, The, 149 Winter Myths, 10 Witches' broom, the, 70 Witches' Mannikin,
— from Storyology: Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Benjamin Taylor

Hurriedly The Squaw got to his feet and ran to the edge of the bank, where there were climbing lengths of grapevine.
— from The Plow-Woman by Eleanor Gates

Oh Death is ever coming, loved ones going, Hearts rent with sorrow because one is not; The waves of trouble ever swelling, flowing, Past the tall castle, past the sheltered cot!
— from Verses and Rhymes By the Way by Norah