and you, too, my dear friend, you are intelligent, generous, you drew in good impulses with your mother’s milk, but you had hardly entered upon life when you were exhausted and fell ill. . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Sprinkling over ) are fully described in Goldstücker's Dictionary, from which the following extract is made: “The type of the inauguration ceremony as practised at the Epic period may probably be recognized in the history of the inauguration of Ráma , as told in the Rámáyana , and in that of the inauguration of Yudhishṭhira , as told in the Mahábháratha .
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Danton is gone to native Arcis, for a little breathing time of peace: Away, black Arachne-webs, thou world of Fury, Terror, and Suspicion; welcome, thou everlasting Mother, with thy spring greenness, thy kind household loves and memories; true art thou, were all else untrue!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

With some difficulty I got a fellow-passenger to tell me what they meant; he would not answer at first, but on learning that I was English, he explained that it was a charm or guard against the evil eye.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

We no longer find, it 29 is true, any marked pleasure in the comprehensibility of nature and in the unity of its divisions into genera and species, whereby are possible all empirical concepts, through which we cognise it according to its particular laws.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

“I think the old dame is getting confused!”
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

[42] A definition of the sixty-four parts, or divisions, is given in Chapter II., page 45 .
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

I. Of Transcendental Illusory Appearance We termed dialectic in general a logic of appearance.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

that one who would do as he did in going down that wall and to that room—ay, and going a second time—is not one to be injured in permanence by a shock.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

“Only one little gleam of hope did I get—and yet it amounted to nothing.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

But Louiee he say, "Win yet posseeble," and Joseph he was off wit' his girl, An' de croupier say, "Bettre luck nex' time, dare is good luck an' bad luck in store."
— from Sonnets and Other Verse by William M. (William Mackay) MacKeracher

He delighted in games—especially in billiards—and in building the house at Stormfield the billiard-room was first considered.
— from Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1853-1866) by Mark Twain

Their crowning resolve was this, to deal with me for a time quietly; and that the pastor did more for his own sake than mine, for by going to and fro and acting as if he bestirred himself for my sake and felt great care for me, he gained the Governor's favour, who gave him office and made him chaplain to the garrison, which in those hard times was no small matter: neither did I grudge it him.
— from The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

His attention was arrested by seeing, not the carriage, but his servant, Owen, speaking earnestly to a man dressed in gray and wrapped in a sort of military cloak, who, after a short conversation, mounted his horse and rode off with the air of a man to whom speed is of the utmost importance, as Gaston heard his steps along the road to Paris.
— from The Regent's Daughter by Alexandre Dumas

[Pg 76] Horses and cows get a special feed in their stalls, and on every house in the country, as well as many in the towns, you will see a pole erected, to which is fixed a sheaf of unthreshed grain as a treat for small birds that, in this hard season, have great difficulty in getting food.
— from Peeps at Many Lands: Sweden by William Liddle

copper, carrying five dollars in gold to the ton.
— from McAllister and His Double by Arthur Cheney Train

Like the fly in amber, The thing itself was neither rich nor rare: We only wondered how the devil it got there.
— from The Old Inns of Old England, Volume 2 (of 2) A Picturesque Account of the Ancient and Storied Hostelries of Our Own Country by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

Here, likewise, they saw Simon Girty, who appeared to take an infernal delight in gazing upon the dead bodies, and viewing the tortures which were inflicted upon the living.
— from Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer by Cecil B. Hartley

There was one point I did not remember to tell you about in its place, and that was the rather pathetic spectacle the boys are, in numbers of families in the East,—tied to their mothers' apron strings, treated like girls and taken constantly to Europe with or without a tutor; little, blasé grandfathers driving motor cars and dressing in grown up clothes.
— from Elizabeth Visits America by Elinor Glyn