The Count then sent for Dorothee, and required of her also a promise of silence, concerning what she had already, or might in future witness of an extraordinary nature; and this ancient servant now related to him the particulars of the Marchioness de Villeroi's death, with some of which he appeared to be already acquainted, while by others he was evidently surprised and agitated.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

It was no ordinary sight to see a numerous and powerful class of men, whose every outward action seemed constantly to be dictated by a natural elevation of thought and feeling, by delicacy and regularity of taste, and by urbanity of manners.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The law of development is summed up in Spencer's formula, "The degree and range of sympathy depend on the clearness and extent of representation."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

If you do not wish to continue the acquaintance any farther, you need not return a second call, but politeness imperatively demands a return of the first one.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

p. 114—139,) the phoenix of the Edda, and the annual death and revival of Adonis and Osiris, are the allegorical symbols of the absence and return of the sun in the Arctic regions.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

A different form of the myth of the death and resurrection of Dionysus is that he descended into Hades to bring up his mother Semele from the dead.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

On this point she was soon satisfied; and two or three little circumstances occurred ere they parted, which, in her anxious interpretation, denoted a recollection of Jane, not untinctured by tenderness, and a wish of saying more that might lead to the mention of her, had he dared.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

He woke betimes; and, as may be supposed, Ponder'd upon his visitant or vision, And whether it ought not to be disclosed, At risk of being quizz'd for superstition.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

And if some person offers to give them advice who is not supposed by them to have any skill in the art, even though he be good-looking, and rich, and noble, they will not listen to him, but laugh and hoot at him, until either he is clamoured down and retires of himself; or if he persist, he is dragged away or put out by the constables at the command of the prytanes.
— from Protagoras by Plato

But his only attendant was a deaf and rheumatic old crone who went to bed at six o'clock every evening and got up at six in the morning.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To what extent are the duties and responsibilities of woman to be different from what they have been?
— from Vesper Talks to Girls by Laura A. (Laura Anna) Knott

Demeter and Persephone DIONYSUS was not the only Greek deity whose tragic story and ritual appear to reflect the decay and revival of vegetation.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

In man, this same guardian consciousness keeps on constructing, by a series of elimination and selection, a new environment, individual and social, which leads to an ever higher and more perfect development and realization of the inner powers of individuality and personality.
— from Nervous Ills, Their Cause and Cure by Boris Sidis

“Did any report of my death reach you?”
— from Her Sailor: A Love Story by Marshall Saunders

He immediately threw himself down, and rolled over and over until he reached firm ground again, in a sad mess.
— from The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive by Samuel Smiles

Only a narrow, muddy ditch; a row of wind-torn willows; a dark, swollen river, hurrying on beneath a dark, sinister sky.
— from The Hallowell Partnership by Katharine Holland Brown

Assuming a mysterious air, old Hannah whispered, "He's up in de ruff, at de top of de house, in dat little charmber, where he stays mostly, to get shet of de music and dancin' and raisin' ob cain generally.
— from Cousin Maude by Mary Jane Holmes

And the means to remove these obstacles are to purify the conscience, science, to mortify the passions, to guard the sense and to have an intelligent knowledge of the duty and requirements of a proper fulfilment of the daily task of the saying of the Canonical Hours.
— from The Divine Office A Study of the Roman Breviary by Edward J. Quigley

As Valentine’s Meat Juice is still widely advertised the referee in charge of this class of products deemed a reexamination of the product advisable.
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

Cliff Dwellings And Ruins Of The Southwest.
— from American Indians by Frederick Starr