Such servant as your humble choice requires, To light received the lord of my desires, New from the birth; and with a mother's hand His tender bloom to manly growth sustain'd: Of matchless prudence, and a duteous mind; Though now to life's extremest verge declined, Of strength superior to the toil design'd— Rise, Euryclea!
— from The Odyssey by Homer

She certainly seemed fitted to act as interpreter between the two classes; for, from the gentleman her father she had inherited the fine instincts, gracious manners, and unblemished name of an old and honorable race; from the farmer's daughter, her mother, came the equally valuable dower of practical virtues, a sturdy love of independence, and great respect for the skill and courage that can win it.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

It was not, however, by clamour that the contest was to be decided, and the desperate efforts of the assailants were met by an equally vigorous defence on the part of the besieged.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenances, who would fill the air with blessings and spend his life in serving you—he bids you weep, to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments!
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"That the soul of every man is compelled to be either vehemently delighted or grieved about some particular thing, and, at the same time, to consider that the thing about which it is thus strongly affected is most real and most true, though it is not so.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

Había rehusado meses antes una comisión 25 del Gobierno para examinar bajo el punto de vista minero la cuenca del río Nahara en el valle de Orbajosa; pero los proyectos a que dió lugar la conferencia referida, le hicieron decir:—"Conviene aprovechar el tiempo.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

For these species, from belonging to distinct families, would have differed to a certain extent, and in accordance with the principle that the nature of each variation depends on two factors, viz., the nature of the organism and that of the surrounding conditions, their variability assuredly would not have been exactly the same.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

“In truth, what Albert has just done is either very despicable or very noble,” replied the baron.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Le père, lui ayant fait observer qu'il lui avait demandé d'en mettre six: «Aussi l'ai-je fait,» dit le sophiste; et pour en faire la démonstration, tirant le premier, il lui dit: «En voilà un»; au second: «En voilà deux; or deux et un font trois»; au troisième: «En voilà trois; or trois et trois font six.»--«Cela est vrai, dit le père; en voici donc deux pour moi, ta mère se contentera bien d'un; prends, toi qui es jeune et qui as meilleur appétit, les trois autres pour ton repas.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

For impure sensuality, the mistress of every vice, devising one shameless pleasure after another, insensibly plunges into unmentionable debauchery, experienced in every form of brutal lust.”
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Only the eldest, Vassya, drinks out of a glass, for the others the tea is poured out into saucers.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Germans are either very dilatory, or they have some arrière pensée about the Zanzibar affair.
— from Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 by Newton, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron

Judge Robert C. Pitman, in his "Alcohol and the State," an exceedingly valuable discussion of the "Problem of Law as Applied to the Liquor Traffic," gives an instructive history of the license laws of Massachusetts from early colonial times down to the year 1877.
— from Grappling with the Monster; Or, the Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes—who has no thought nor sense of joy, except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenances—who would fill the air with blessings, and spend his life in serving you—he bids you weep—to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments!
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Finally the battered English vessels drew off.
— from Quaint and Historic Forts of North America by John Martin Hammond

202 -204 compared to an iron furnace, 347 quarries of, 474 , 475 Ehrenberg, his discovery of the animated dust of the Harmattan, 156 Eifel, volcanic district of the, 58 carbonic acid gas springs of the, 88 crateriform hollows, or maare, in the, 131 Eileithyia, rock-hewn cemeteries of, 205 Eimeo, hole in the island of, 133 tradition respecting this hole, 133 Elba, iron industry of, 362 Elephanta, rock-temples of, 183 Elevations of the land produced by earthquakes, 111 Elfdal, porphyry of, 467 Ellora, rock-temples of, 183 Emerald, or beryl, 491 , 492 Emery, whence obtained, 463 total production of, 463 Emmanuel, St., church of, in Abyssinia, 187 Ems, hot springs of, 43 Enamel, materials used for, 335 Encrinites lily, called ‘St. Cuthbert’s beads,’ 181 Encrinus liliiformis, fossil, 17 , 18 1009 Engihoul, human remains in the cavern of, 226 Dr. Schmerling’s explorations, 226 Sir C. Lyell’s, 227 Engis, human bones discovered in the cavern of, 226 Engines, stationary, used in mines, 263 England, subsidence of the land on the west and east coasts of, 36 , 37 effects of a violent earthquake in, 100 shocks felt in, at various times, 100 , 101 effects of the great earthquake of 1755 in, 118 the extinct hyena of, found in caves, 214 ossiferous caves in, 227 flint implements found in, 231 main causes of the prosperity of, 245 copper mines of, 316 manufacture of iron in, 349 lead mines of, 365 , 366 zinc produced in, 381 , 382 vast deposits of coal of, 402 , 403 and their convenient distribution, 403 extent of the Great Central Coal-field, 406 quarries of, 464 Eozoon canadense, the only fossil found in the Laurentian rocks, 10 its extreme antiquity, 10 Epomeo, volcano of, its long periods of rest, 58 Erasinos, in Greece, antiquity of the spring of,
— from The Subterranean World by G. (Georg) Hartwig

Complete in Eight Vols., Demy Octavo, published at £4, 4s., The Poetical and Prose Works of John Milton.
— from Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere

Use as a sauce over macaroni, spaghetti, rice, hominy, escalloped vegetable dishes, over toast as mock rarebit, or as a foundation for cream of cheese soup.
— from The Business of Being a Housewife A Manual to Promote Household Efficiency and Economy by Jean Prescott Adams

The naturalist Wallace, Professor Morgan, and the electrician Varley declare, on the other hand, that sufficient proof has been given them to warrant them in accepting without reserve the Spiritualistic doctrine of disembodied souls.
— from Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion