Throwing off his coat, the youth sprang to the edge of the bank, scanned for a moment the rocks and whirling currents, and then, at sight of part of the boy's dress, plunged into the roaring rapids.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
I would guess the [Pg 62] reason for this to be the fear of being charged with pantheism; but the doctrine of the divine Presence is definitely not pantheism.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer
They were the product of human devotion and application, of human desire, patience, ingenuity, and mother-wit.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess
“Do, Polly, it's just what he wants; and I know you've got a beautiful mash ready for me.”
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Its great original sin is its denial of its own basis and its refusal to occupy its due place in the world, an ignorant fear of being invalidated by its history and dishonoured, as it were, if its ancestry is hinted at.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
[1] Diane de Poitiers, in the Princesse de Clèves , by Mme.
— from On Love by Stendhal
“Either to me or to Madame de Polignac, if you know her.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
Nevertheless, I would like him to define these ABUSES of property, to show their cause, to explain this true theory from which no abuse is to spring; in short, to tell me how, without destroying property, it can be governed for the greatest good of all.
— from What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
When you make de sofki you pound up de corn real fine, den pour in de water an dreen it off to git all de little skin from off'n de grain.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration
You cannot pronounce it.' 'Giuseppe Cicolari,' the boy repeated slowly, with the precise intonation the Italian had given it, for he had the gift of vocal imitation, like all men of Celtic blood (and the Dorsetshire peasant is mainly Celtic).
— from Babylon, Volume 1 by Grant Allen
The inhabitants were surprised at mass, and the one man who resisted was slain, the rest being detained prisoners in church.
— from Spanish and Portuguese South America during the Colonial Period; Vol. 1 of 2 by Robert Grant Watson
Dunbar, ‘Pawnee Indians,’ in Magazine of American History , viii. 738. 101 Dunbar, loc. cit.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck
There was a first-rate dinner provided, in ample proportions, of which all could and did partake freely; every one had to pay for his own ale, but the females, by courtesy, were “treated” at the expense of males.
— from The Comical Adventures of Twm Shon Catty (Thomas Jones, Esq.), Commonly known as the Welsh Robin Hood by T. J. Llewelyn (Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn) Prichard
The Cabala constantly directs Paracelsus in his therapeutics and materia medica.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 1 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson
It did put into my mind the question whether I ought not to make the change for your sake."
— from Mrs. Red Pepper by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond
"I should not have supposed, sir," replied the boy, blushing very deeply, partly it might be from the nature of the subject under discussion, and partly from the strength of his emotions, "that any cavalier could have regarded it otherwise.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Various
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