Circling in pride like an Eagle whilom Thou didst lead us, O
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The little journal gives the best glimpses of her daily life, usually only a hasty scrawl of a few lines but containing many flashes of humor and wisdom.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The comprehensiveness of our thought, whether we are asleep or awake, no doubt depends largely upon our idiosyncrasies, constitution, habits, and mental capacity.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who showeth his wonders in the deep, beseeching him of his mercy, that as in the beginning he discovered the face of the deep, and brought forth dry land, so he would now discover land to us, that we might not perish.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

2 dakù, lapad ug — one who wears house slippers outdoors (making the area outdoors as an [ 852 ] extension of his living room—humorous).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

That likewise have we thought upon, and thus: Nan Page my daughter, and my little son, And three or four more of their growth, we'll dress Like urchins, ouphes, and fairies, green and white, With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads, And rattles in their hands; upon a sudden, As Falstaff, she, and I, are newly met, Let them from forth a sawpit rush at once With some diffused song; upon their sight We two in great amazedness will fly.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

One who must follow forever in poverty hard after the Dream, leaving untouched on either hand the goods for which his fellows strove; falling at times into the mire, torn by the thorns that others evade, lost often, and often overtaken by the night of discouragement and despair, but rising again from besmirchments and defacings to follow the vision to the end.
— from The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1 by Elizabeth Bisland

Let us, then, dear American fellow-citizens, rest assured that intellectual discipline, without the coöperation of any religious element, will not, and cannot, produce the greatness of a nation, nor can it maintain its life and splendor and prevent its decay; let us, on the contrary, be persuaded that the only safety for a commonwealth, the only source of greatness and prosperity for a nation, as well as of tranquillity and happiness for the individual, is the true religion of Jesus Christ; it is this religion alone that is the safeguard of morality, and morality is the best security of law, as well as the surest pledge of freedom.
— from Public School Education by Michael Müller

The time required to distribute the bearing marks evenly depends largely upon one’s judgment in “reading” these marks.
— from Aviation Engines: Design—Construction—Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pagé

In every decision of life we depend largely upon our observation; upon the things we see.
— from Miller's Mind training for children Book 1 (of 3) A practical training for successful living; Educational games that train the senses by William Emer Miller

Changing levels is accomplished by one single lock as against the single and double locks used on the Erie.
— from Kelly of the Foreign Legion: Letters of Légionnaire Russell A. Kelly by Russell Anthony Kelly

But till that day comes, if come it ever does, let us only be friends.
— from Linnet: A Romance by Grant Allen