Now when David had done speaking, there appeared great alacrity among the rulers, and the priests, and the Levites, who now contributed and made great and splendid promises for a future Contribution; for they undertook to bring of gold five thousand talents, and ten thousand drams, and of silver ten thousand talents, and many ten thousand talents of iron; and if any one had a precious stone he brought it, and bequeathed it to be put among the treasures; of which Jachiel, one of the posterity of Moses, had the care.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Once within the quarry, however, all sense of fatigue vanished, and my thankful mind, entranced and fascinated by the deep silence, the awful grandeur, the mysterious lights and shadows of the place, lent me new strength.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

For then, supposing that an object differed from things in one direction by the increment d , it would have to differ from things in another direction by a different sort of increment, call it d' ; so that, after getting rid of qualitative unlikeness between objects, we should have it back on our hands again between their increments.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

What seems exquisite to one poet may accordingly seem vapid to another, when the texture of experience in the two minds differs, so that a given composition rustles through one man's fancy as a wind might through a wood, but finds no sympathetic response in the other organism, nerved as it may be, perhaps, to precision in thought and action.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Close by the King's castle lay a great dark forest, and under an old lime-tree in the forest was a well, and when the day was very warm, the King's child went out into the forest and sat down by the side of the cool fountain, and when she was dull she took a golden ball, and threw it up on high and caught it, and this ball was her favorite plaything.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

As time went on, I grew more and more restless, I couldn't sit still, I couldn't read, I couldn't work; sometimes I laughed and did something to annoy grandmother, at another time I would cry.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The distance from the junction of the Nan-tien with the Salwen to the capital of Burma (Pagán) would be something over 300 miles; fifteen days seems a fair estimate for the distance, seeing that a great part of the journey would doubtless be by boat."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

It has been hurting me a good bit for the past two days, and as I have not got much sleep I expect that I am not looking what you call very fit, therefore it is as well that they should not think me in a very bad way when I ride up; besides, I dare say they are getting anxious about me.
— from In the Hands of the Cave-Dwellers by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

You'll go sticking your nose around that domicile some time and get it knocked off!
— from The Call of the Beaver Patrol; Or, A Break in the Glacier by V. T. Sherman

Inside this, there is first a box which holds a common bonnet of black straw; then a coarse dark shawl; then a gown of good common black stuff; then linen, and other things for the under garments, that are only of the sort called second best.
— from The Dead Secret: A Novel by Wilkie Collins

In addition to the early celebrities already named, Extreme Carelessness, Michael, Brickbat, Poppy II., Moya Doolan, Straight Tip, and Gaelic have taken their places in the records of the breed, while yet more recent Irish Terriers who have achieved fame have been Mrs. Butcher's Bawn Boy and Bawn Beauty, Mr. Wallace's Treasurer, Mr. S. Wilson's Bolton Woods Mixer, Dr. Smyth's Sarah Kidd, and Mr. C. J. Barnett's Breda Muddler.
— from Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton

These visual spotting stations would be equipped with a sighting device similar to a gun sight on a bomber.
— from The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt

The division showed that a great change had taken place in the temper of the House.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

"'Well, I overheard the two boys speaking about it in the shrubbery; and what struck me most was, even when Patrick had an opportunity to reprove his younger brother he did not do so, though a good word costs nothing, and might save his brother much misery in the end.
— from Bluff Crag; or, A Good Word Costs Nothing by Cupples, George, Mrs.