He went up to the wall on which the major’s weapons were hanging, and took down at random one of the pistols—of which there were several of different calibres.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

Then You drew a rib out of my side, and created it after my own likeness and image.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

Nor in one of these nations does aught remarkable occur, only that they universally join in the worship of Herthum ; that is to say, the Mother Earth.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

Granted, finally, that we succeeded in explaining our entire instinctive life as the development and ramification of one fundamental form of will—namely, the Will to Power, as my thesis puts it; granted that all organic functions could be traced back to this Will to Power, and that the solution of the problem of generation and nutrition—it is one problem—could also be found therein: one would thus have acquired the right to define ALL active force unequivocally as WILL TO POWER.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Then the second class, books and writings innumerable, incessant—to be briefly described as radiations or offshoots, or more or less imitations of the first.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Feudalism, evidently of Germanic origin, will also attract our attention, and we shall draw a rapid outline of this legislation, which, barbarian at the onset, becomes by degrees subject to the rules of moral progress.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

I conceive, therefore, that when God did enlarge the universal diet of man's body, saving ever the rules of temperance, he then also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds; as wherein every mature man might have to exercise his own leading capacity.
— from Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton

We were a mile from shore; a little steam-tug put out from the land; she was an object of thrilling interest; she would climb to the summit of a billow, reel drunkenly there a moment, dim and gray in the driving storm of spindrift, then make a plunge like a diver and remain out of sight until one had given her up, then up she would dart again, on a steep slant toward the sky, shedding Niagaras of water from her forecastle—and this she kept up, all the way out to us.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

He is alternately a follower of Cicero and a supporter of his bitterest enemy, a Tory and a Democrat, a recognized opponent of Cæsar and his trusted agent and adviser.
— from The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature by Frank Frost Abbott

, hears somethin' doin' and rushes out of his hut.
— from The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land by Gordon (Adventure story writer) Stuart

I saw you struck down and reel out of the saddle.
— from The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

We were in the garden playing over by the lilac bushes, and Billy always beats me because when it goes down the slope he throws himself down and rolls over on the grass.
— from The Melting of Molly by Maria Thompson Daviess

Difficulties on the other hand, which, like barnacles and remoræ attached to a good ship's wooden bottom, act as drags and retardations on our own apprehending faculties.
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

It is a great event in our lives when we first leave the safe shelter of home, where constant familiarity has made everything dear to us, and even our faults have been judged by the tolerant standard of those who love us, to be plunged into a world where we know we shall be taken at a different estimate, and where, to a certain extent, that absolute reliance on another's judgment must give way to a sense of duty and responsibility on our own account.
— from The Girls of St. Cyprian's: A Tale of School Life by Angela Brazil

And instead, therefore, of being left to labour for ourselves, painfully to search amongst the dust and rubbish of our own hearts, we are taught to sweep away all that crumbled, rotten surface, and to go down to the living rock that lies beneath it; we are taught to say, in the words of the book of Isaiah, ‘Doubtless Thou art our Father—we are all an unclean thing; our iniquities, like the wind, have carried us away’; there is nothing stable in us; our own resolutions, they are swept away like the chaff of the summer threshing-floor, by the first gust of temptation; but what of that?—‘in those is continuance, and we shall be saved!’
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

Here is to be found an effectual balm for the ills of life: something to drown all remembrance of our ill-humours, the worries of business, or even family quarrels.
— from The Cook's Decameron A Study in Taste, Containing over Two Hundred Recipes for Italian Dishes by Waters, W. G., Mrs.

They referred, in an obscure and veiled fashion, to the great statue erected by Lord Ashiel in that glen of which his wife had been so fond; where the beginning of the track used by the cattle drivers and robbers of old, which is known as the Green Way, leads up over the hills to the south.
— from The Ashiel mystery: A Detective Story by Bryce, Charles, Mrs.

This difference alone removes out of our way the miraculous history of Pythagoras, who lived five hundred years before the Christian era, written by Porphyry and Jamblicus, who lived three hundred years after that era; the prodigies of Livy's history; the fables of the heroic ages; the whole of the Greek and Roman, as well as of the Gothic mythology; a great part of the legendary history of Popish saints, the very best attested of which is extracted from the certificates that are exhibited during the process of their canonization, a ceremony which seldom takes place till a century after their deaths.
— from Evidences of Christianity by William Paley