[Pg 46] THE STAG AND HIS REFLECTION A Stag, drinking from a crystal spring, saw himself mirrored in the clear water.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

One day an Indian diver went down for a curious sea plant and saw several cannon lying on the bottom.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

[130] whence it comes to pass that each man, being derived from a condemned stock, is first of all born of Adam evil and carnal, and becomes good and spiritual only afterwards, when he is grafted into Christ by regeneration: so was it in the human race as a whole.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

In the Mogul's dominions far away, Certain small spirits there are often found, Who sweep the house and dig the garden ground, And guard your equipage by night and day: If you but touch their work, you spoil the whole.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Him shouldest thou haply encounter, with his dim visage pendent over the grateful steam, regale him with a sumptuous basin (it will cost thee but three half-pennies) and a slice of delicate bread and butter (an added halfpenny)—so may thy culinary fires, eased of the o'er-charged secretions from thy worse-placed hospitalities, curl up a lighter volume to the welkin—so may the descending soot never taint thy costly well-ingredienced soups—nor the odious cry, quickreaching from street to street, of the fired chimney , invite the rattling engines from ten adjacent parishes, to disturb for a casual scintillation thy peace and pocket!
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

But Mr. Bagnet, unconscious of these little defects, sets his heart on Mrs. Bagnet eating a most severe quantity of the delicacies before her; and as that good old girl would not cause him a moment's disappointment on any day, least of all on such a day, for any consideration, she imperils her digestion fearfully.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Thus Templarism and Rosicrucianism appear to have been always closely connected, a fact which is not surprising since both derive from a common source--the traditions of the near East.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

He, was a tall man with a drawn face and crooked shoulders and the name he always entered on hotel registers was, “Archibald Craven, Misselthwaite Manor, Yorkshire, England.”
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Ha, ha, ha!” “Sir,” said Mr. Lovel, colouring, “if you were as much used to town-life as I am,-which, I presume, is not precisely the case,-I fancy you would not find so much diversion from a circumstance so common.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

The city, more especially the house, of the prophet, was a scene of clamorous sorrow of silent despair: fanaticism alone could suggest a ray of hope and consolation.
— 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

I have to this day been unable to find out how any pleasure can be derived from a constant spinning round like the sails of a mill.
— from The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon by Habeeb Risk Allah

Take of water, 10 galls, distil from a copper state, connected with a block-tin worm; reject the first 1 ⁄ 2 gall., and preserve the next 8 galls.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

With the report of a great discovery for a conquest, some two or three savage men were brought in together with this savage custom; but the pity is, the poor wild barbarous men died, but that vile barbarous custom is still alive, yea, in fresh vigor; so as it seems a miracle to me how a custom springing from so vile a ground, and brought in by a father so generally hated, should be welcomed upon so slender a warrant."
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

There the air was always mild and pure, and balmy with the breath of blossoms; the sun looked kindly down from a cloudless sky, [31] and the storms seldom broke the quiet ripple of the waters which bathed the shores of that island home.
— from Elementary Composition by George R. (George Rice) Carpenter

If a cup be filled to the brim it cannot be moved without spilling the liquid over the outside; this occasions wiping, which it is especially difficult to do, and waste of a certain portion of the contents; then it is not easy to drink from a cup so filled.
— from A Handbook of Invalid Cooking For the Use of Nurses in Training, Nurses in Private Practice, and Others Who Care for the Sick by Mary A. Boland

Day after day the sun glared down from a cloudless sky, and all Castile was burnt brown as a desert.
— from In Kedar's Tents by Henry Seton Merriman

[177] A comparison of the two languages leaves no doubt as to their derivation from a common stem.
— from The American Race A Linguistic Classification and Ethnographic Description of the Native Tribes of North and South America by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton