Snatching only a few minutes for meals and a few hours for sleep, come rain or come shine, I no longer left the ship's deck.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

His youth and features favour'd the disguise, And, should you ask how she, a sultan's bride, Could risk or compass such strange phantasies, This I must leave sultanas to decide: Emperors are only husbands in wives' eyes, And kings and consorts oft are mystified, As we may ascertain with due precision, Some by experience, others by tradition.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Either the objects of these impulses are represented by the very notions that we have been examining—in which case, after we have decided that any impulse is better than its rival, all the perplexities set forth in the previous chapters will recur, before we can act on our decision; for what avails it to recognise the superiority of the impulse to do justice, if we do not know what it is just to do?—or if in any case the object which a moral sentiment prompts us to realise is conceived more simply, without the qualifications which a complete reflection on Common Sense forced us to recognise; then, as the previous investigation shows, we shall certainly not find agreement as to the relation between this and other impulses.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Around in every direction it was still as black as pitch, but nearly overhead there burst out, all at once, a circular rift of clear sky—as clear as I ever saw—and of a deep bright blue—and through it there blazed forth the full moon with a lustre that I never before knew her to wear.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

According to Hobbes, the existing moral and political order—that is to say the organization of control—is in any community a mere artefact, a control resting on consent, supported by a prudent calculation of consequences, and enforced by an external power.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

But in spite of this, Don Quixote did not leave off discharging a continuous rain of cuts, slashes, downstrokes, and backstrokes, and at length, in less than the space of two credos, he brought the whole show to the ground, with all its fittings and figures shivered and knocked to pieces, King Marsilio badly wounded, and the Emperor Charlemagne with his crown and head split in two.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The shape of the shield throughout the rest of Europe has also varied between wide extremes, and at no time has any one particular shape been assigned to or peculiar to any country, rank, or condition, save possibly with one exception, namely, that the use of the cartouche or oval seems to have been very nearly universal with ecclesiastics in France, Spain, and Italy, though never reserved exclusively for their use.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Considerable regions of Chinese settlement had come into existence in Yünnan and even in Annam and Tongking, and a series of campaigns under General Ma Yuan (14 B.C.-A.D. 49) now added these regions to the territory of the empire.
— from A History of China by Wolfram Eberhard

One is a Cornus , resembling our Cornus sanguinea ; after having detached the epidermic cuticle, they scrape the bark and dry it, when it is ready for use.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

So I propose that we call this camp of ours 'Camp Danger,' or 'Camp Risk' or camp something else of the sort."
— from Camp Venture: A Story of the Virginia Mountains by George Cary Eggleston

Within the small arc of our observation we observed a certain regularity of change similar to the changes due to growth in an individual, and [Pg 252] this we called the law of progress.
— from Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More

Christian read on calmly, solemnly while the slow life ebbed wave by wave.
— from Merkland; or, Self Sacrifice by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Thus—a child with a child—Judith and Jamie were on the common one windy, showery day, collecting shells, laughing, chattering, rejoicing over choice snail-shells, as though neither had passed through a wave of trouble, as though life lay serene before them.
— from In the Roar of the Sea by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

For filling, mix one and one quarter cups chopped cranberries, one half cup chopped raisins, one cup sugar, one quarter cup water, and one tablespoon butter.
— from Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated in Colors by Maria Willett Howard