One of the chief of these is derived from the explanation given by the fourteenth-century commentator, Mallinātha, of the word dignāga , “world-elephant,” occurring in the 14th stanza of Kālidāsa’s Meghadūta .
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

In 1836, while traveling through Italy, which she was showing to Claude Vignon and Leon de Lora, the landscape painter, she was present at an entertainment given by Maurice de l'Hostal, the French consul at Genoa; on this occasion he gave an account of the ups and downs of the Bauvan family.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

But there was nothing to be feared from these showers, which were not considerable, and he returned to his couch before the fireplace, where the embers glowed beneath the ashes.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Sanguine by nature, Troy had a power of eluding grief by simply adjourning it.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

I don’t wish to say anything that might appear egotistical, gentlemen, but I’m very glad, for your own sakes, that you came to me; that’s all.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

But as the world, I know not well for what reason, agree to see this treachery in a better light, he was so far from being ashamed of his iniquities of this kind, that he gloried in them, and would often boast of his skill in gaining of women, and his triumphs over their hearts, for which he had before this time received some rebukes from Jones, who always exprest great bitterness against any misbehaviour to the fair part of the species, who, if considered, he said, as they ought to be, in the light of the dearest friends, were to be cultivated, honoured, and caressed with the utmost love and tenderness; but, if regarded as enemies, were a conquest of which a man ought rather to be ashamed than to value himself upon it.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

a paying close attention to what belongs to one and making sure that no one else gets benefit from it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For it was unquestionably true that down the middle of the entrance guarded by the man in gold lace, actually between the arrogant, stretched legs of that colossus, ran a stringy pattern of grey footprints stamped upon the white snow.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

'I don't mean that we should ever go back to the old life, for we were not suited to each other from the first, you and I. You wanted to marry me because I was pretty and smart, and I married you because I wanted to be married, and you were better-looking than most men, and seemed to have what I thought was necessary—fortune and a decent position.
— from The Diva's Ruby by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

SEE Barr, Earl G. BARR, EARL G. Sacred-wisdom-science, the key to immortality.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1965 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

The true nature of chemical force is still a secret to us, just as is the nature of the universal force of gravity, and yet without knowing what gravity really is, by applying mechanical conceptions, astronomical phenomena have been subjected not only to exact generalisation but to the detailed prediction of a number of particular facts; and so, also, although the true nature of chemical affinity may be unknown, there is reason to hope for considerable progress in chemical science by applying the laws of mechanics to chemical phenomena by means of the mechanical theory of heat.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

This hair was early gray; But joy ere now has brought hair brown again, And joy will bring the cheek's red back, I feel.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

The common tern lays its eggs amongst rough stones, where you would think that anything so fragile as an egg would easily get broken.
— from The Children's Book of London by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

On the table there were roses, and where the books ought to have been was something which made Marjory's eyes grow big with wonder.
— from Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls by Margaret Bruce Clarke

Vegetables are, however, in large establishments, more extensively grown; but there certainly did not appear to be such a general spirit for horticultural improvement as is now prevailing in this country.
— from Journal of a Horticultural Tour through Germany, Belgium, and part of France, in the Autumn of 1835 To which is added, a Catalogue of the different Species of Cacteæ in the Gardens at Woburn Abbey. by James Forbes