Then in simpler words than these, which at that time I could not have understood, she explained: "You cannot touch the clouds, you know; but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

It was a short, formal letter, signed by the office editor, merely informing him that an anonymous letter which they had received was enclosed, and that he could rest assured the Outview’s staff never under any circumstances gave consideration to anonymous correspondence.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

He was called the Mannān because he came out of man (earth), and to him was assigned his present occupation.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

1-6: These ancient epics are the hoard of India's history, mythology, and philosophy.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

However, Cæsar gave him his right hand, and remitted nothing of his kindness to him, upon this disturbance by the multitude; and indeed these things were alleged the first day, but the hearing proceeded no further; for as the Gadarens saw the inclination of Cæsar and of his assessors, and expected, as they had reason to do, that they should be delivered up to the king, some of them, out of a dread of the torments they might undergo, cut their own throats in the night time, and some of them threw themselves down precipices, and others of them cast themselves into the river, and destroyed themselves of their own accord; which accidents seemed a sufficient condemnation of the rashness and crimes they had been guilty of; whereupon Cæsar made no longer delay, but cleared Herod from the crimes he was accused of.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

With this exalted aim, Kant was merely a true son of his century, which more than any other may justly be called the century of exaltation: and this he fortunately continued to be in respect to the more valuable side of this century (with that solid piece of sensuality, for example, which he introduced into his theory of [pg 005] knowledge).
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“You poor devil,” he said gently, rubbing White Fang’s ears and tapping his spine.
— from White Fang by Jack London

After which time the Popes of Rome, engrossing what they pleased of political rule into their own hands, extended their dominion over men's eyes, as they had before over their judgments, burning and prohibiting to be read what they fancied not; yet sparing in their censures, and the books not many which they so dealt with: till Martin V., by his bull, not only prohibited, but was the first that excommunicated the reading of heretical books; for about that time Wickliffe and Huss, growing terrible, were they who first drove the Papal Court to a stricter policy of prohibiting.
— from Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton

We Englishmen forget, if we have ever considered and known, that in all their naval enterprises, and they have not been few, the country invariably called upon her merchantmen and fisher folk; upon all her resources in men and ships.
— from The Fleets Behind the Fleet The Work of the Merchant Seamen and Fishermen in the War by W. MacNeile (William MacNeile) Dixon

And the cities suffered and lost many of their inhabitants in these days of distress, so that all Syria experienced at the hands of Ptolemy, the son of Lagus, the opposite of what is implied by his title of saviour.
— from The Makers and Teachers of Judaism From the Fall of Jerusalem to the Death of Herod the Great by Charles Foster Kent

Mr. C. was told that he would make the workmen in other factories dissatisfied, that other manufacturers would become his enemies, and that his course would scandalize some of the greatest men who had done so much for the civilization of the world and for the spread of intelligence.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

And that is the new building you identified in one of the earlier exhibits, and the high school has now been torn down?
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Following their usual tactics, the Afghans, after exchanging shots at the entrance of the pass, had turned tail and dashed through the defile, with the English at their heels.
— from A Dog with a Bad Name by Talbot Baines Reed

Mr. Spout again operated the telegraph for all parties, and when they were once more seated, Johnny Cake called on their uninvited guests for an explanation as to how they had found out their location.
— from The History and Records of the Elephant Club by Edward F. (Edward Fitch) Underhill

I like to see men at their ease about the house.”
— from John Bull's Womankind (Les Filles de John Bull) by Max O'Rell

The book shows how his entire life was spent in the achievement of this end; how for it he sacrificed his own ease, and the happiness of his brother, his two wives and his many children, and how finally he triumphed, and in his lonely old age, seeing the desired acres all his own, was content.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916 by Various

DISTRIBUTION OF PUPILS BY THEIR ENTRANCE AGES TO HIGH SCHOOL AGES Undis- Total 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 tributed 2646 B. 16 211 820 900 497 148 23 10 7 14 3495 G. 8 259 1124 1217 614 194 51 10 8 16 The entering ages of these 6,141 pupils are distributed from 12 to 20, with 30 of them for whom the age records were not given.
— from The High School Failures A Study of the School Records of Pupils Failing in Academic or Commercial High School Subjects by Francis Paul OBrien

It was befitting, therefore, that at Christ's entrance into our world, the first salutation to men, as conveyed by the angels, should be, "Peace on earth"; and that His parting words should be, "Peace be unto you."
— from Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer