[Pg 106] THE WOLF, THE KID, AND THE GOAT Mother Goat was going to market one morning to get provisions for her household, which consisted of but one little Kid and herself.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

And so whil'st I cast on thy funerall pile Thy crowne of Bayes, Oh, let it crack a while, 85 And spit disdaine, till the devouring flashes Suck all the moysture up, then turne to ashes.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

And in five minutes' time, at no cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and courts and kings and historians, his is safe to live and thunder in the world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

The Christian cause now became like the doomed city of Babylon or like the site of Nineveh, which, buried in the sand and covered with the desolation and silence of centuries, became lost to the memory of the world, so that even the very record of scripture was the jest of the infidel, until the spade of Layard brought them again to resurrection.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

In a rough classification of books on Love one can imagine a large number collected under the heading—"Academic.
— from On Love by Stendhal

We too observe that there are some kinds xci of excellence which spring from a peculiar delicacy of constitution; as is evidently true of the poetical and imaginative temperament, which often seems to depend on impressions, and hence can only breathe or live in a certain atmosphere.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

"If he did speak, you wouldn't know what to say, but would cry or blush, or let him have his own way, instead of giving a good, decided, No."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

For children, idiots, savages, and illiterate people, being of all others the least corrupted by custom, or borrowed opinions; learning and education having not cast their native thoughts into new moulds; nor by superinducing foreign and studied doctrines, confounded those fair characters nature had written there; one might reasonably imagine that in THEIR minds these innate notions should lie open fairly to every one’s view, as it is certain the thoughts of children do.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

We too observe that there are some kinds of excellence which spring from a peculiar delicacy of constitution; as is evidently true of the poetical and imaginative temperament, which often seems to depend on impressions, and hence can only breathe or live in a certain atmosphere.
— from The Republic by Plato

"If he did speak, you wouldn't know what to say, but would cry or blush, or let him have his own way, instead of giving a good, decided no."
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Idols, Tartar, Tangut; colossal; of Cathay; of Bacsi or Lamas; of Sensin; of East generally; in India.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

The major was pleased to join this family party, and looked forward with some avidity to the enjoyment of certain London experiences that he had missed from his cup of blessings of late years.
— from The Three Miss Kings: An Australian Story by Ada Cambridge

In order to observe the drift of the ice we prepared a kind of log-line, from 100 to 150 fathoms in length, to the end of which there was attached a conical open bag of loosely woven material, in which small animals could be caught up.
— from Farthest North, Vol. II Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

No printing-press was to be allowed elsewhere than in London (except one in each University); and no book was to be printed until first seen and perused by the Archbishop of Canterbury or Bishop of London; with an exception in favour of the queen's printer, and books of the common law, which were to be allowed by the Chief Justices and Chief Baron, or one of them.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 56, November 23, 1850 by Various

But what distinguished this knight and Humanist above all the others who were contending on behalf of learning and against the oppressions and usurpations of the Church and monasticism, were his thoroughly German sympathies, and his zeal for the honour and independence of his nation.
— from Life of Luther by Julius Köstlin

t to the public, like building a church or bridge, or laying out a new highway."
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

Mr. Buckstone had reported the bills from his committee, one by one, leaving the bill to the last.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

That evening Hood called his captains on board, explained his intentions, had them set their watches by his, and at 11 P.M. the cables were cut one by one, lights being left on the buoys, and the fleet silently decamped, passing round the north end of St. Kitts, and so towards Antigua.
— from The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

We arrived on Sunday morning; the custom house officers, very gentlemanly men, came on board; our luggage was all set out, and passed through a rapid examination, which in many cases amounted only to opening the trunk and shutting it, and all was over.
— from Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 by Harriet Beecher Stowe