You can lie out on the naked rocks and look like a piece of pudding-stone.
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Then is Conyhope lane, of old time so called of such a sign of three conies hanging over a poulterer’s stall at the lane’s end.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

This was too much for the Count, in a moment his prick sprang to the fiercest stand, he instantly unbuttoned his trousers; his mother finding she had brought her bare arse onto the corn, leant over on the side opposite to her son to tuck her petticoats under her arse, but the Count seized her round the waist with one arm, with his body pressed on her already bent body, forced her quite down on her side and was into her cunt up to the hilt, he thrust it up so fiercely as not only to make her shriek with surprise, but also with pain.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Dílì mabúhì ang isdà ug way túbig, A fish cannot live out of the water.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

A carriage lying overturned on the road outside an inn made my coachman stop a short while, and this accident which made the poor driver curse overwhelmed me with joy, for in these few moments I obtained all the favours that she could possibly give under the circumstances.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Dorothea darted instantaneously from the window; Will followed her, seizing her hand with a spasmodic movement; and so they stood, with their hands clasped, like two children, looking out on the storm, while the thunder gave a tremendous crack and roll above them, and the rain began to pour down.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The castle stands in a fine chase, which was prettily speckled over with deer; and I can’t but own that my pleasure was considerable at first, as I sat in the oak parlour of summer evenings, with the windows open, the gold and silver plate shining in a hundred dazzling colours on the side-boards, a dozen jolly companions round the table, and could look out over the wide green park and the waving woods, and see the sun setting on the lake, and hear the deer calling to one another.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Again: The royal yards were all crossed at once, and royals and sky-sails set, and, as we had the wind free, the booms were run out, and all were aloft, active as cats, laying out on the yards and booms, reeving the studding-sail gear; and sail after sail the captain piled upon her, until she was covered with canvas, her sails looking like a great white cloud resting upon a black speck.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

Evidence from Lough Gur, County Limerick One of the most interesting parts of Ireland for the archaeologist and for the folk-lorist alike is the territory immediately surrounding Lough Gur, County Limerick.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

As in the legend of the Hydra two heads spring up in place of that which falls, so in this Christian legend out of the overthrown monster, henceforth himself concealed, two arise from his inspiration,—the seven-headed, ten-horned Beast who continues the work of wrath and pain; but also a lamb-like Beast, with only two horns (far less terrible), and able to deceive by his miracles, for he is even able to call down fire from heaven.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The red-roofed buildings of Cavite lay out on the end of the sickle like a clutter of bleached bones cast up by the tide.
— from Isle o' Dreams by Frederick Ferdinand Moore

The priest seems to spend all his time, clad like one of the poorest peasants, working in the gardens, which are very well kept, and which, like all true old Japanese gardens, suggest that the little details had been planned to please a child.
— from A Journal from Japan: A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist by Marie Carmichael Stopes

[201] He stood so that he could look out of the willows and across the meadow through which Peter would come.
— from A Gentleman of Courage: A Novel of the Wilderness by James Oliver Curwood

It was the first time they had ever come face to face with so great a beast, and although they had read so much about the famous Cowardly Lion of Oz that they recognized him, he had looked so fierce when he had fallen into the tunnel that they would surely have been frightened had it not been for Shaggy's reassuring words.
— from The Shaggy Man of Oz by Jack Snow

Angler-fish, 247 , 248 Annelida , apparent intelligence of, 24 Antennæ, effects of removal in ants, 142 ; in bees, 197 Antithesis, principle of, in expression of emotions by monkeys, 494 , 495 Ant-lion, 234 , 235 Ants, powers of special sense, 31 - 37 ; of sight, 31 - 33 ; of hearing, 33 ; of smell, 33 - 37 ; sense of direction, 37 , 38 ; memory, 39 - 45 ; recognition of companions and nest-mates, 41 - 45 ; emotions, 45 - 49 ; affection, 45 - 48 ; sympathy, 48 , 49 ; communication, 49 - 57 ; habits general in sundry species, 57 - 93 ; swarming, 57 , 58 ; nursing, 58 , 59 ; education, 59 , 60 ; keeping aphides, 60 - 64 ; making slaves, 64 - 68 ; wars, 68 - 83 ; keeping domestic pets, 83 , 84 ; sleep and cleanliness, 84 - 7 ; play and leisure, 87 - 89 ; funeral habits, 89 - 93 ; habits peculiar to certain species, 93 - 122 ; leaf-cutting, 93 - 96 ; harvesting, 96 - 110 ; African, 110 , 111 ; tree, 110 , 111 ; honey making, 111 - 114 and 142 ; [500] ecitons, or military, 114 - 122 ; general intelligence, 122 - 142 ; Sir John Lubbock's experiments on intelligence, 123 - 128 ; intelligence displayed in architecture, 128 - 130 ; in using burrows made by elater larvæ, 130 ; in artificial hives, 130 ; in removing nest from shadow of tree, 131 ; in cutting leaves off overshadowing tree, 131 , 132 ; in bending blades of grass while cutting them, 132 , 133 ; in co-operating to glue leaves together, 133 , 134 ; in getting at food in difficult places, 134 , 135 ; in making bridges, &c., 135 - 139 ; in tunnelling under rails, 140 ; anatomy and physiology of nerve-centres and sense organs, 140 - 2 Apes, see Monkeys Arachnidæ , 204 - 225 , see Spiders and Scorpions Arago, his observation regarding sense of justice in dog, 443 Arderon, on taming a dace, 246 Argyroneta aquatica , 212 Arn, Capt., on sword- and thresher-fish, 252 , 253 Articulata , see under divisions of Ass, general intelligence of, 328 and 333 Association of ideas, see under various animals Ateuchus pilularius , 226 Athealium , apparent intelligence of, 19 - 20 Atkinson, the Rev. J. C., on reasoning power of a dog, 458 , 459 Audubon, on ants making beasts of burden of bugs, 68 ; plundering instincts of white-headed eagle, 284 ; variations in instinct of incubation, 299 , 300 Auk, nidification of, 292 Automatism, hypothesis of animal, 6 BABOON, sympathy shown by Arabian, 474 ; rage of, 478 ; revenge of, 478 Badcock, on dog making peace-offerings, 452 Baer, Van, on organisation of bee, 241 Backhouse, R. O., on dog being alarmed at a statue, 453 Bailey, Professor W. W., on dog stopping a runaway horse, 459 Baines, A. H., on dog communicating wants by signs, 446 , 447 Baker, on sticklebacks, 245 Baldamus, Dr., on cuckoo laying eggs coloured in imitation of those of the birds in whose nests they lay them, 307 Ball, Dr. Robert, on commensalism of crab and anemone, 234 Banks, Sir Joseph, on intelligence of tree-ants, 133 ; fish coming to sound of bell, 250 Bannister, Dr., on cat trying to catch image behind mirror, 415 , 416 ; on intelligence of the Eskimo dogs, 461 , 462 Barrett, W. F., on instincts of young alligator, 256 Barton, Dr., on alleged fascination by snakes, 264 Bastian, on termites, 198 Bates, on ants' habit of keeping pets, 84 ; cleaning one another, 87 ; play and leisure, 88 , 89 ; leaf-cutting, 93 - 95 ; tunnelling, 99 ; ecitons, 114 - 21 ; on sand-wasp taking bearings to remember precise locality, 150 ; mygale eating humming-birds, 208 ; on nidification of small crustacean, 232 , 233 ; habits of turtles, and alligators, 257 , 258 ; intelligence of vultures, 314 ; bats sucking blood, 341 Batrachians, 254 , 255 Bats, 341 Baya-bird, nidification of, 294 Bears, 350 - 352 Beattie, Dr., on dog communicating desires by signs, 447 Beaver, 367 - 85 ; breeding habits, 367 , 368 ; lodges, 368 - 73 ; dams, 373 - 79 ; canals, 379 - 83 ; general remarks upon, 368 , 377 , 379 , 383 ; age of their buildings, 384 ; effects of their buildings on the configuration of landscapes, 384 , 385 [501] Bechstein, on birds dreaming, 312 Bee, mason, 178 , 179 ; tapestry, 179 ; carpenter, 179 ; rose, 179 ; carding, 179 , 180 Bees, sense of sight, 143 , 144 ; of smell and hearing, 144 ; of direction, 144 - 51 ; remembering exact locality of absent hive, 148 - 49 ; following floating hives, 149 ; memory, 151 - 55 ; sympathy, 155 , 156 ; distances over which they forage, 150 ; powers of communication, 156 - 60 ; economy of hive, 160 - 8 ; food and rearing, 160 - 163 ; swarming and battles of queens, 163 , 164 ; drone-killing, 164 - 68 ; plunder and wars, 168 - 170 ; architecture, 170 - 8 ; way-finding, 181 , 182 ; instinct of neuters, 181 ; recognising companions, 183 , 184 ; barricading doors against moths, 184 , 185 ; strengthening combs in danger of falling, 185 , 186 ; mode of dealing with surfaces of glass, 186 ; with strange hives, 186 , 187 ; evacuating fallen hive, 187 ; ceasing to store honey in Barbadoes and California, 187 , 188 ; recognising persons, 188 , 189 ; biting holes in corollas, 189 ; ventilating hives, 191 , 192 ; covering slugs, &c., with propolis, 190 , 191 ; effects of removing antennæ, 197 Beetles, see Coleoptera Belshaw, on cat knocking knockers, 422 Belt, on ants, duration of memory in, 39 , 40 ; sympathy, 48 ; division of labour, 99 ; ecitons, 114 - 19 and 138 ; tunnelling under rails, 140 ; on sand-wasp taking precise bearings to remember locality, 150 , 151 ; struggle between wasps and ants for secretion of frog-hoppers, 194 , 195 ; intelligence of spiders in protecting themselves from ecitons, 219 , 220 ; beetles undermining stick supporting a dead toad, 228 ; intelligence of monkeys, 480 Benedictson, on navigating habits of Iceland mice, 364 , 365 Bennet, on birds dreaming, 312 Bennett, on conjugal fidelity of duck, 270 , 271 Berkeley, G., on beetle storing its food, 228 , 229 Bettziech-Beta, on termites, 199 Bidie, on suicide of scorpion, 222 , 223 ; on reasoning power of cat, 415 Bingley, on intelligence of ants, 133 ; carpenter-bees, 179 ; account of alleged training of bees, 189 ; co-operation of beetles, 226 , 227 ; ant-lion, 230 , 235 ; domestication of toad, 255 ; fascination by snakes, 264 ; sympathy in birds, 272 ; eccentricity of nest building instinct, 295 ; education of birds, 312 ; pigs pointing game, 339 , 340 ; intelligence of otter, 346 ; memory of elephant, 387 ; vindictiveness of elephant, 387 , 389 ; elephants enduring surgical operations, 399 , 400 Bird, Miss, on combined action of crows in obtaining food from dogs, 320 Birds, 266 - 325 ; memory of, 266 - 70 ; emotions, 270 - 82 ; special habits of procuring food, 283 - 6 ; of incubation and taking care of offspring, 287 - 310 ; general intelligence, 310 - 25 ; dreaming and imagination, 311 - 12 ; learning to avoid telegraph wires, 313 ; recognising painting of birds, 311 ; submitting to surgical operation, 313 - 14 ; honey-guide, 315 - 16 ; appreciation of mechanical appliances, 315 - 16 ; concerted action, 318 - 322 Birgus latro , 233 Bison, 334 - 5 Blackbirds, breaking shells against stones, 283 ; removing eggs, 289 ; mobbing cat, 291 Blackburn, Professor H., on distances over which bees forage, 150 [502] Blackman, on cats learning to beg for food, 414 - 15 Blackwall, on early display of instincts by spiders, 216 Blanchard, on mason-bee, 178 Blood, on reasoning power of a dog, 464 Boa-constrictor, really a Python , which see Bodley, W. H., on dogs crossing a river to fight undisturbed, 451 - 2 Bold, on canary singing against own image in mirror, 276 Bombyx moth, larva of, 238 - 40 Bonnet, on spider following her eggs into pit of ant-lion, 205 ; his experiments on instincts of caterpillars, 236 ; observations on ditto, 238 Boobies, plundered by frigate pelicans, 284 Bosc, on migrating fish, 248 Bower-bird, instincts of, 279 - 81 , 325 Bowman, Parker, his cat opening swivel of window, 425 Boys, C. V., his experiments with a tuning-fork on spiders, 206 , 207 Brehm, on wasps recognising persons, 188 ; intelligence of lapwing, 315 , 316 ; curiosity of monkeys, 477 Broderip, on vindictiveness of elephant, 389 Brodie, Sir B., his definition of instinct, 15 ; on bees strengthening their combs, 185 , 186 Brofft, Herr L., on powers of communication in bees, 160 Brougham, Lord, on hexagonal form of bees' cells, 172 ; on intelligence of a dog, 450 Brown, Capt., on vindictiveness of a stork, 277 - 8 Brown, W., on a cat extinguishing fire by water, 425 Browne, Dr. Crichton, on cat ringing bell, 423 Browne, Murray, on fox allowing itself to be extricated from trap, 431 Browning, A. H., on intelligence of a dog, 450 Brydon, Dr., on collective instinct of jackals, 434 Buchanan, Dr., on climbing perch, 249 ; on nidification of baya-bird, 294 Büchner, Professor, on ants: nursing habits, 59 ; stocking trees with aphides, 63 ; warfare, 71 - 9 ; play, 87 - 88 ; leaf cutting, 95 - 96 ; intelligence in making a bridge of aphides over tar, 136 ; of themselves over a space, 136 - 37 ; and of a straw over water, 137 ; ecitons, 139 ; anatomy and physiology of brain, 141 - 42 .
— from Animal Intelligence The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV. by George John Romanes

When the soles cross, lying one on top of the other, the player will own a gold mine.
— from Things Worth Doing and How To Do Them by Lina Beard

The young girl, destined for a cloister, was constantly looking out of the window, in hopes of getting some light upon the enormities imputed to Maxence Gilet, the Rabouilleuse, and Jean-Jacques, of which a few words reached her ears whenever she was sent out of the room that others might talk about them.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Nay, if we could leap out of the compass of heaven and earth, we should find as little reserves from him: he is without the world in those infinite spaces which the mind of man can imagine.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

Still sticking to your seat by the window you will see Instow and Appledore rising, significantly if you know your west country lore, out of the broad glistening tide.
— from The Rivers and Streams of England by A. G. (Arthur Granville) Bradley