QUAINT, elegant, elaborated, ingenious, clever.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

Still, by way of experiment, I could not help asking whom he meant?
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Their geographic position brought them equally into contact with the agricultural and sedentary tribes of the eastern country and the roving hunters of the prairie, and in tribal habit and custom they formed a connecting link between the two.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

LETTER XXII - EVELINA IN CONTINUATION Monday Morning, April 18.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

But Javert, heeding his own thought only, continued:— “So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerating.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

After the Conquest we do not hear much of warranty, except in connection with land, and this fact will at once [372] account for its having had a different history from debt.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Mr. Pickwick was busily engaged in counting the barrels of oysters and superintending the disinterment of the cod-fish, when he felt himself gently pulled by the skirts of the coat.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The propaganda methods of the British East India Company in the conquest of India against overwhelming Indian numerical superiority.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

For the thoughts of any extraordinary intellect cannot stand being filtered through the vulgar mind.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

What alone will beget a doubt concerning the theory, on which I insist, is the influence of education and acquired habits, by which we are so accustomed to blame injustice, that we are not, in every instance, conscious of any immediate reflection on the pernicious consequences of it.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

Letters of introduction were received from Germany, and particularly from England, to influential parties and societies in a variety of places abroad, amongst which were many warm and friendly recommendations from the English Government and Admiralty, as well as the Directors of the then East India Company, to various administrative authorities in the British Colonies.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

A considerable experience in chemistry, electricity, and the other allied physical sciences long since convinced the author of this work that some simple and uniform principle must control the production of the physical phenomena of astronomy,—some general law capable of being extended in its application to the widest, as well as applied to the narrowest, limits of that science.
— from The Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the Universe by Isaac W. (Isaac Winter) Heysinger

"There is really nothing more to say beyond that I want to find out everything I can concerning this Araxes, if only for the reason that the charming Princess chose to impersonate his lady-love last night.
— from Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul by Marie Corelli

Sometimes the mahout, as the keeper of the elephant is called, sits on the animal's broad neck or rides on a rough wooden saddle.
— from How the World Travels by Alice A. Methley

Quadruple organization, in cosmos, and scheme of government: origin of idea, 15 ; Maya, Mexican, and Zuñi, 41 , 42 ; expressed in cross symbols, 47-54 ; Mexico divided into four parts, 83 ; at time of Conquest, 75 , 76 ; in ancient map of Yucatan, 86 ; in ancient map of Mexico, 88 ; in Inca empire, 136 , 144 ; in Guatemala, 171 , 172 ; in Bogota, 171 ; among the Tzendals, 180 , 181 ; Quiché, 182 ; in Yucatan sculptures, 185 , 186 ; in tree symbolism, 187 , 192 ; carried northward, 196 ; in Huron Indian Confederacy, 198 ; among Zuñi, 201 ; in Maya and Mexican traditions, 208 , 209 ; in Yucatan, 218 , 223 ; at Copan, 226 , 228 ; at Quirigua, 232 ; at Palenque, 236 ; Palenque, Peru, Guatemala, Yucatan, Mexico and Zuñi compared, 244 ; regulated by Calendar Stone, 245 , 247 , 254 ; in connection with pyramid building, 272 , 273-282 ; in China, 286 , 291 ; represented by human figure, 296 ; China and Mexico compared, 297 ; in Japan, 310-312 ; in India, 313 , 318 , 481 ; in Mesopotamia, 321 ; in Persia, 325 ; in Assyria, 332-337 , 335 ; in ancient Egypt, 371 , 372 , 399 ; in Greece, 454 ; indicated first by cross symbol and later by swastika, 461 ; in ancient Rome, 463 ; in ancient Ireland, 468 ; in ancient Britain, 470 ; in Scandinavia, 472 ; [pg 594] table of countries where traces are found, 480-494 ; comparative review, 509 , 510 ; in cruciform structures at Copan and Mitla, 512 , 513 ; chief ruler called “Four in One,” 529 (see also, Numerical Divisions ).
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

"What on earth is cabinot? "
— from The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings

Why, I’ve been shaking you, and doing everything I could to rouse you up.”
— from To The West by George Manville Fenn

The party in power made what estimate it chose of a man's capacity to bear taxation, and called upon him for extraordinary loans.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds