The sea looked quite green, and large icebergs were floating about, each like a pearl, she said, but larger and loftier than the churches built by men.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

If ever Love, as poets sing, delights to visit a cottage, it must be the cottage of an English peasant.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Let everyone, let all Petersburg see the children begging in the streets, though their father was an honourable man who served all his life in truth and fidelity, and one may say died in the service.”
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the same manner, withes for the eight divisions of the diameter, fastened obliquely at the intersections on the entire longitudinal and peripheral surface, make spiral channels which naturally look just like those of a snail shell.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Our chief business will be to draw very straight, accurate, and even lines, a perfect square, a really round circle.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The LONGANONES PORCINOS EX IURE TARENTINO in ℞ 140 is a part of the PATINA EX LACTE; a pork sausage made in Tarent of the straight gut, the rectum.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

' In the summer of 1761 Mr. Thomas Sheridan was at Edinburgh, and delivered lectures upon the English Language and Publick Speaking to large and respectable audiences.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

—If we consider all that has been venerated up to the present as “superhuman intellect” or “genius,” we must come to the sad conclusion that, considered as a whole, the intellectuality of mankind must have been extremely low and poor: so little mind has hitherto been necessary in order to feel at once considerably superior to all this!
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It could not be a proper natural hole then, Or 'twas not a right pebble,--for I found him Smoking with sweat, quaking in every limb, And panting so!
— from Poems, 1799 by Robert Southey

Plato , applies Socratic principles to an ethical, logical, and physical system, 398 ; his doctrine of Ideas, 399 ; his filiation with Socrates, 400 ; his philosophy, and his idea of God, 401-6 ; with which, however, he retains the inculcation and practice of the popular religion, 406 ; his God not absolutely personal, nor free, nor a creator, 408 ; his ethical system, 410 ; his conception of the method of teaching, 411 ; his contrast between oral teaching and writing, as means of imparting doctrine, 414-18 ; his account in his own person of how real knowledge, ἐπιστήμη, is to be attained, 425 ; calls the art of Socrates mental midwifery, 392 ; the highest point of virtue to become like to God, 433 .
— from The Formation of Christendom, Volume II by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

During the absence of Alexander in India he gave himself up to the most extravagant luxury and profusion, squandering the treasures intrusted to him, at the same time that he alienated the people subject to his rule by his lustful excesses and extortions.
— from A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest by William Smith

The pealing of the bell which celebrated the new step of time, vibrated on the air from the turret of the neighbouring church, sounding to his ear like a pious song.
— from Popular Tales by Madame (Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline) Guizot