That is the lesson we, these days, send over to European lands by every western breeze.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Ramping , iii, 5 , etc., leaping, bounding, erect; ramp , v, 28 .
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

It may be said that Moral Excellence, like Beauty, eludes definition: but if Ethical Science is to be constituted, we must obtain definite Moral Axioms.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Not seldom in the rapid vicissitudes of the chase, this natural line, with the maternal end loose, becomes entangled with the hempen one, so that the cub is thereby trapped.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

[Pg 754] Buc'hoz, P.J. Dissertation sur l'utilité et les bons et mauvaises effets du tabac, du café, du cacao et du thé.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

10 En esto, [40-3] sonaba ya abajo, en la botica, el estrépito de los botes y redomas que los vecinos
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

To them, when warmed by love, they glow And sue to thee, some favour show, Each lowly bush, each towering tree Would follow too for love of thee.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

—Mi sobrino, no es mi sobrino, mujer: es la blasfemia, el sacrilegio, el ateísmo, la demagogia... ¿Sabes lo que 25 es la demagogia?
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

If their frugality," he goes on, "were the effect of the nakedness of the land, only the poor would eat little; but everybody does so.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It made no radical changes in the English laws, but enforced impartial obedience to them among all classes.[2]
— from The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery

Marc St. Hilaire Method by a Star Sight 74 Friday Lecture Examples: Latitude by Meridian Altitude of a Star; Latitude by Polaris; Marc St. Hilaire Method by a Star Sight 75 Saturday Lecture Longitude by Chronometer Sight of the Sun 76 WEEK VI—NAVIGATION Tuesday Lecture Longitude by Chronometer Sight of a Star 79 Wednesday Lecture Examples on Longitude by Chronometer Sight of a Star 80 Thursday Lecture Latitude by Ex-Meridian Altitude of the Sun 81 Friday Lecture Examples: Latitude by Ex-Meridian Altitude of the Sun 83 Saturday Lecture
— from Lectures in Navigation by Ernest Gallaudet Draper

Lips upon eager lips, blue eyes to gray, motionless they stood clasped in ecstasy; thinking nothing of the dreadful past, nothing of the fearful future, conscious only of the glorious, wonderful present.
— from Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

48 There is an analogous story to this of the Golden Apparition in an entertaining little book entitled, The Orientalist; or, Letters of a Rabbi , by James Noble, published at Edinburgh in 1831, of which the following is the outline: An old Dervish falls ill in the house of a poor widow, who tends him with great care, and when he recovers his health he offers to take charge of her only son, Abdallah.
— from Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by W. A. (William Alexander) Clouston

exclaimed Little Billie, evidently thinking he meant the wild man.
— from The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat; or, The Secret of Cedar Island by George A. Warren

Even Harriet Martineau wrote verses in early life bad enough to comfort the soul of any respectable parent.
— from Some Private Views by James Payn

"Let this Eleanor Lloyd but engage herself to Pomeroy--let her marry him if she will--and on the day that Matthew tells her the secret of her birth, he can tell her also that the man to whom she has given her heart is but a sorry impostor, whose sole object in marrying her was to obtain possession of that money which is hers no longer.
— from A Secret of the Sea: A Novel. Vol. 1 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 THE POEMS of EMMA LAZARUS By Emma Lazarus in Two Volumes VOL.
— from The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Emma Lazarus