The guys who founded Ben and Jerry's -- old hippies themselves -- had founded a hippie museum in the Haight, and there were other archives and exhibits to see around town.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Lydia has no brothers to step forward; and he might imagine, from my father's behaviour, from his indolence and the little attention he has ever seemed to give to what was going forward in his family, that he would do as little, and think as little about it, as any father could do, in such a matter.”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

On the seventh day I found a herb materialized in my hand!
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

If we consider how in both cases the transition from the pleasure to the horror of life was the occasion of it, this throws some light upon the remarkable fact that it is among the French, the most cheerful, gay, sensuous, and frivolous nation in Europe, that by far the strictest of all monastic orders, the Trappists, arose, was re-established by Rancé after its fall, and has maintained itself to the present day in all its purity and strictness, in spite of revolutions, Church reformations, and encroachments of infidelity.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The allusion is to the wounding of Myrrha by her father and her metamorphosis into this tree.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

“You will admit yourself, general, that for an honourable man, if the author is an honourable man, that is an—an insult,” growled the boxer suddenly, with convulsive jerkings of his shoulders.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[584] For what is more precious than a death by which a man's sins are all forgiven, and his merits increased an hundredfold?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

In placing the flag at half mast, it should first be hoisted to the top of the staff and then lowered to position, and preliminary to lowering from half staff it should first be raised to top.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

*** This arrangement was conceived by La Fayette, and he made it a fundamental point.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

In 1300 he filled the office of one of the Priori, or chief magistrates at Florence; and having manifested in this, as was alleged, some partiality towards the Bianchi, a sentence of proscription passed against him about two years afterwards, when it became the turn of the opposite faction to triumph.
— from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam

“At last,” cried Gazonal, “I’ve found an honest man in Paris!
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Sir George Cornewall Lewis expressed his conviction that the historian of the future will find all his materials in the Times .
— from Literary Byways by William Andrews

He was followed by another worthless rogue, who flung away his modesty instead of his ignorance.
— from The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers, calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners, improve the understanding, rectify the will, purify the passions, direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects, and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language with elegance and propriety by John Hamilton Moore

It was a policy that harassed the most faithful and honourable men in the Church, and preferred the most unscrupulous and obsequious to places of power.
— from Andrew Melville by William Morison

I explained to him personally the nature of Forrest as a man, and of his peculiar force; told him that in his route he was sure to encounter Forrest, who always attacked with a vehemence for which he must be prepared, and that, after he had repelled the first attack, he must in turn assume the most determined offensive, overwhelm him and utterly destroy his whole force.
— from Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Volume I., Part 2 by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Now there is not a beggar in the kingdom who would change lots with you, for you are a friendless and hunted man in peril of dreadful death.
— from The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes) by James Branch Cabell