Many a time has the popular evangelist stopped in the middle of his talk, when he felt that his hearers were units instead of a molten mass (and a sensitive speaker can feel that condition most depressingly) and suddenly demanded that everyone arise and sing, or repeat aloud a familiar passage, or read in unison; or perhaps he has subtly left the thread of his discourse to tell a story that, from long experience, he knew would not fail to bring his hearers to a common feeling.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

With sharpe intended sting ° so rude him smot, That to the earth him drove, as stricken dead, Ne living wight would have him life behot: The mortall sting his angry needle shot Quite through his shield, and in his shoulder seasd, 340 Where fast it stucke, ne would there out be got: The griefe thereof him wondrous sore diseasd, Ne might his ranckling paine with patience be appeasd.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

But she wouldn’t be deceitful, and she did a fine thing.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Whence the first age was shadowed out by the reign of Saturn; who, on account of the frequent dissolutions, and short durations of things, was said to devour his children.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Lang Pok Lang Melini, Katiga dengan awan Shurga, Di-tepok jangan-lah tangan kiri, Aku pinta’ mana yang ada.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

“My faith, my dear Aramis,” said d’Artagnan, who detested verses almost as much as he did Latin, “add to the merit of the difficulty that of the brevity, and you are sure that your poem will at least have two merits.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Cyrus!" His coming was still delayed; and she determined, as the report had apparently been very near, to seek for him in person.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[4] en el progreso de estas empresas en la América latina; en primer lugar porque no hay región en el mundo donde sean más copiosas las lluvias ni más numerosos los lagos elevados y los saltos de agua susceptibles de ser [5] utilizados; en segundo lugar, por la escasez de combustibles, que llega a veces a [6] hacer necesario el empleo de la leña para mover las locomotoras, sobre todo en los sitios alejados de los puertos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

from this point of View my guide pointed to a village at the mouth of a Small river near which place he Said the whale was, he also pointed to 4 other places where the princpal Villages of the Kil la mox were Situated, I could plainly See the houses of 2 of those Villeges & the Smoke of a 3rd which was two far of for me to disern with my naked eye—after taking the Courses and computed the Distances in my own mind, I proceeded on down a Steep decent to a Single house the remains of an old Kil a mox Town in a nitch imediately on the Sea Coast, at which place great no. of eregular rocks are out and the waves comes in with great force.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

So new is the large-scale application of geology to exploration [Pg 303] and development, and so diverse are the scientific methods of approach, that it is difficult to lay out a specific course for a student which will prepare him for all the opportunities he may have later.
— from The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

Now the weight of a mass m is commonly written mg , where g is the intensity of terrestrial gravity, a thing easily measured; being, indeed, numerically equal to twice the distance a stone drops in the first second of free fall.
— from Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

When she was about two years old she insisted on being called ‘Doctor Carpenter’ in the nursery; at the age of twelve she is described by a friend as a sedate little girl, who always spoke like a book; and before she entered on her educational schemes she wrote down a solemn dedication of herself to the service of humanity.
— from Reviews by Oscar Wilde

Through the gorge of this glen they found access to a black bog, of tremendous extent, full of large pit-holes, which they traversed with great difficulty and some danger, by tracks which no one but a Highlander could have followed.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

Epaminondas, however, broke their line by defeating a Spartan division, and Sicyon deserted the Spartan for the Theban alliance.
— from A Manual of Ancient History by M. E. (Mary Elsie) Thalheimer

Once he had a glimpse of Black Bolly in a melee of dust and sheep; Dave's mustang blurred in his sight; August's roan seemed to be double.
— from The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel by Zane Grey

At home it breeds and fattens a cloud of eagles and vultures, trained to swoop upon the land; to all the Gentiles across the sea it dismisses a solitary dove.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 02 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

And this is a proper comparison if it is a tapeworm that is meant, because a tapeworm always knows in advance what it is going to have for dinner, and so does a boarder.
— from Pleiades Club Year Book 1910 by Pleiades Club