"Let old Samanas be content with such feats!" H2 anchor GOTAMA In the town of Savathi, every child knew the name of the exalted Buddha, and every house was prepared to fill the alms-dish of Gotama's disciples, the silently begging ones.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Concerning the relation of the blush to age, Darwin says that early childhood knows nothing about blushing.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
So, as every child knows that the reflection of sound is frequently deceptive, everybody who is asked in court will say that he believes the wagon {190} to be on the right side though it might as well have been on the left.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep-inflicted lacerations never heal—cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge—so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses—loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
He was a pretty boy of about eleven, called Kartashov.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
About a fortnight since, I found myself in a certain district or province (but little known to Europeans) called Kattiawar.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Though she had herself seen him drive away, she fancied that it must be Dmitri Fyodorovitch knocking again, no one else could knock so savagely.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Three times in one year the door has been offered me—the door that goes into peace, into delight, into a beauty beyond dreaming, a kindness no man on earth can know.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
“And as for political economy,” continued Kostanzhoglo, without noticing him, and with his face charged with bilious sarcasm, “—as for political economy, it is a fine thing indeed.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
Euphra chose key after key, and opened door after door, till they came into a long gallery, well lighted from each end.
— from David Elginbrod by George MacDonald
Fitzgerald threatened that he would hold the townsmen responsible for the submission of the troops; but, savage as the English commander knew him to be, he calculated, with justice, that he would not ruin his popularity by cutting the throats of an unresisting crowd.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by James Anthony Froude
Death of Marguerite Preston and eldest child killed in air crash returning to Kenya.
— from The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá'í Community : the Messages from the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith to the Bahá'ís of the British Isles by Effendi Shoghi
Proscribed, outlawed, with his Netherland property confiscated, and his eldest child kidnapped, he saw sufficient personal justification for at last stepping into the lists, the avowed champion of a nation's wrongs.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley
I know nothing about thee, save what every child knows, that thou art a big star, whose only light is derived from moons.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by George Borrow
At the bidding of the Roman proconsul the eminent Carnutic knight Acco was beheaded by Roman lictors (701) and the rule of the -fasces- was thus formally inaugurated.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen
And as they exchanged childish kisses, disaster again broke upon them.
— from Essays on the Greek Romances by Elizabeth Hazelton Haight
Corner , n. 1. Angle, bend, elbow, crotch, knee, cusp.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule
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