Trembling he obeyed, and raised his humble head; and then, in that utter clearness of the imminent dawn, while Nature, flushed with fullness of incredible colour, seemed to hold her breath for the event, he looked in the very eyes of the Friend and Helper; saw the backward sweep of the curved horns, gleaming in the growing daylight; saw the stern, hooked nose between the kindly eyes that were looking down on them humourously, while the bearded mouth broke into a half-smile at the corners; saw the rippling muscles on the arm that lay across the broad chest, the long supple hand still holding the pan-pipes only just fallen away from the parted lips; saw the splendid curves of the shaggy limbs disposed in majestic ease on the sward; saw, last of all, nestling between his very hooves, sleeping soundly in entire peace and contentment, the little, round, podgy, childish form of the baby otter.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

After they had well ergoted pro and con, they concluded in baralipton, that they should send the oldest and most sufficient of the faculty unto Gargantua, to signify unto him the great and horrible prejudice they sustain by the want of those bells.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

In all other things nature is equal, proportionable, and constant; there be justae dimensiones, et prudens partium dispositio , as in the fabric of man, his eyes, ears, nose, face, members are correspondent, cur non idem coelo opere omnium pulcherrimo ?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Had I not resolved never to quit my Convent, except upon circumstances as urgent as that which has conducted me to your door, I should be frequently summoned upon insignificant occasions: That time would be engrossed by the Curious, the Unoccupied, and the fanciful, which I now pass at the Bedside of the Sick, in comforting the expiring Penitent, and clearing the passage to Eternity from Thorns.' Elvira commended equally his prudence and compassion, promising to conceal carefully the honour of his visits.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Trembling he obeyed, and raised his humble head; and then, in that utter clearness of the imminent dawn, while Nature, flushed with fulness of incredible colour, seemed to hold her breath for the event, he looked in the very eyes of the Friend and Helper; saw the backward sweep of the curved horns, gleaming in the growing daylight; saw the stern, hooked nose between the kindly eyes that were looking down on them humorously, while the bearded mouth broke into a half-smile at the corners; saw the rippling muscles on the arm that lay across the broad chest, the long supple hand still holding the pan-pipes only just fallen away from the parted lips; saw the splendid curves of the shaggy limbs disposed in majestic ease on the sward; saw, last of all, nestling between his very hooves, sleeping soundly in entire peace and contentment, the little, round, podgy, childish form of the baby otter.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

If I could only have kept memory from running here and there in quest of evidence pro and con the house being haunted, I should have fared better: but I could not do this.
— from The Uninhabited House by Riddell, J. H., Mrs.

After having passed an instructive hour in examining the medals and drawings, M. de Viloison proposed conducting me to the Armenian convent, but I begged to be excused, and went to San Giovanni e Paolo, a church to be held most holy in the annals of painting, since it contains that masterpiece of Titian, the martyrdom of the hermits St. Paul and St. Peter.
— from Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford

I hear from almost every place a complaint that within thirty or forty years the "run of the mountain" has been taken from the people and let to graziers.
— from Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. by Bernard Henry Becker

Has published Miracles and Miracle Workers , etc. Pecqueur (A.), contributor to the Rationaliste of Geneva, 1864.
— from A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler

The converts come under the protection of the missionaries, who have behind them the European powers, and consequently they are, to a great extent, independent of the local officials.
— from With the Allies to Pekin: A Tale of the Relief of the Legations by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Hundreds of birds were on the ground eating plentifully and calling to one another.
— from The King of Ireland's Son by Padraic Colum

The two obvious courses between which he had to choose, were either to concentrate his little army on the frontier and make as much display of it in the face of the French as might be possible, or to abandon all idea of protecting exterior Portugal, and collect the scattered regiments in or about Lisbon.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Charles Oman

Once when north-westerly winds had kept the ice long on the coast and food was becoming scarce, the Esquimaux performed a ceremony to make a calm.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The End of the Trail - James Earle Fraser, Sculptor Panel from the Column of Progress - Isidore Konti, Sculptor The Feast of the Sacrifice - Albert Jaeger, Sculptor The Joy of Living - Paul Manship, Sculptor The Man with the Pick - Ralph Stackpole, Sculptor The Kneeling Figure - Ralph Stackpole, Sculptor The Pegasus Panel - Bruno Louis Zimm, Sculptor Primitive Man - Albert Weinert, Sculptor Thought - Albert Weinert, Sculptor Victory - Louis Ulrich, Sculptor The Priestess of Culture - Herbert Adams, Sculptor The Adventurous Bowman - Herman A. MacNeil, Sculptor Pan - Sherry Fry, Sculptor Air - Robert Ingersoll Aitken, Sculptor The Signs of the Zodiac - Herman A. MacNeil, Sculptor The Fountain of Ceres - Evelyn Beatrice Longman, Sculptor The Survival of the Fittest - Robert Ingersoll Aitken, Sculptor Earth - Robert Ingersoll Aitken, Sculptor Wildflower - Edward Berge, Sculptor Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts "The influence of sculpture is far reaching.
— from Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts Descriptive Notes on the Art of the Statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco by Juliet Helena Lumbard James

His son succeeded him; but not being able to defend it against the uprising of the people, it was incorporated into the French empire; but still the war raged, until 1226, when a peace was concluded with Raymond IV., upon condition of his purchasing absolution at an enormous price, and ceding the greater portion of his domains to France.
— from Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger