(London, 1883-1888); Essays of Elia, in Standard English Classics, etc. (see Selections for Reading); Dramatic Essays, edited by B. Matthews (Dodd, Mead); Specimens of English Dramatic Poets, in Bohn's Library.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

An American who has travelled in Asia and an Englishman who has travelled in Australia may meet in Paris and exchange travelling experiences with mutual understanding, because both of them have experienced travel; and they will have an adequate vocabulary to describe each experience, because most men have also experienced travel.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Aller Anfang ist heiter; die Schwelle ist der Platz der Erwartung —Every beginning is cheerful; the threshold is the place of expectation.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

O dass es ewig bliebe, / Das Doppelglück der Töne wie der Liebe —Oh, that it would stay for ever, the double bliss of the tones as well as of the love.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Here is MY domain! —For the sake of this did I cast everything else aside, for the sake of this did everything else become indifferent to me; and close beside my knowledge lieth my black ignorance.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Southernwood male and female, Brooklime, Angelica, Briony white and black, Calaminth, Germander, Sullendine, Pilewort, Fleabane, Dwarf Elder, Epithimun, Bank-cresses, Clary, Glasswort, Lavender, Lovage, Herb Mastich, Featherfew, Mints, Water-cresses, Origanum, biting Arsmart, called in Latin Hydropiper, (the college confounds this with Persicaria , or mild Arsmart, which is cold) Sneezewort, Pennyroyal, Rue, Savin, summer and winter Savory, Mother of Time, Lavender, Spike, Time, Nettles.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

These various vehicles were portioned off into three detachments, each escorted by Lancers.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Seth had it in mind to explain that Murtagh did not come down early enough, but he remembered how strenuous the rules were in the matter of matutinal punctuality, and concluded to say simply that he didn’t know.
— from Seth's Brother's Wife: A Study of Life in the Greater New York by Harold Frederic

The same instinct drew Ebn Ezra Bey to him—he saw the uncle's look in the nephew's face.
— from The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 1 by Gilbert Parker

BY ÉDOUARD CORROYER ARCHITECT TO THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND INSPECTOR OF DIOCESAN EDIFICES EDITED BY WALTER ARMSTRONG DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF IRELAND With Two Hundred and Thirty-Six Illustrations New York MACMILLAN AND CO. 1893
— from Gothic Architecture by Edouard Corroyer

Over his threadbare dress he wore another of finer texture which it was his intention to discard ere entering before the shrine, in order to appear most lowly and humble in the eyes of the shrewd Tsaritza.
— from The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia by William Le Queux

There was never any love lost between that good lady and herself, and Agatha dreaded every encounter between them.
— from The Carved Cupboard by Amy Le Feuvre

But his daughter soon quieted it, and saw him to his bed, as she did every evening, bidding him good-night, and kissing his placid brow—placid as a child's— just as if he had been her child instead of her father.
— from A Noble Life by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

An indication of the formation of such a law is found in the remarkable -mutuum-, "the exchange" (from -mutare- like -dividuus-)—a form of loan, which was not based like the -nexum- upon a binding declaration of the debtor expressly emitted before witnesses, but upon the mere transit of the money from one hand to another, and which as evidently originated in dealings with foreigners as the -nexum- in business dealings at home.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

From the battlefields along the northern defences, Epping, Edmonton, Barnet, Enfield, and other places where the last desperate stand had been made, and from the barricades in the northern suburbs ambulance wagons were continually arriving full of wounded, all of whom were placed in the churches and in any large public buildings which had remained undamaged by the bombardment.
— from The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the siege of London by William Le Queux

From the white rest, the ante-natal bliss, Not loth, the wondrous wondering soul awakes; Now drawn to that illusion, now to this, With gathering strength each devious pathway takes; Till at the noon of life his aims decline; Evermore earthward bend the tiring eyes, Evermore earthward, till with no surprise
— from Songs, Sonnets & Miscellaneous Poems by Thomas Runciman