In view of the manifold variety of requisites for making each sex fulfil its earthly mission, the standard to be adopted in measuring its relative position must be of a composite character; or, to borrow from economic language, it must be a multiple standard.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

Maybe he now had no hope remaining, yet he would not rest, for the search had become his life,— Just as the ocean for ever lifts its arms to the sky for the unattainable— Just as the stars go in circles, yet seeking a goal that can never be reached— Even so on the lonely shore the madman with dusty tawny locks still roamed in search of the touchstone.
— from The Gardener by Rabindranath Tagore

THE LOVELIEST ROSE IN THE WORLD There lived once a great queen, in whose garden were found at all seasons the most splendid flowers, and from every land in the world.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The Turks are men; each fibre, each limb is as feeling as our own, and every spasm, be it mental or bodily, is as truly felt in a Turk's heart or brain, as in a Greek's.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Let no one believe that the German spirit has for ever lost its mythical home when it still understands so obviously the voices of the birds which tell of that home.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Let your worship say how much you will pay me for each lash I give myself."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Brought up, from early life, in connection with the highest society, the language, movements and air of Cassy, were all in agreement with this idea; and she had still enough remaining with her, of a once splendid wardrobe, and sets of jewels, to enable her to personate the thing to advantage.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Amy's nature was 585 growing sweeter, deeper, and more tender; Laurie was growing more serious, strong, and firm; and both were learning that beauty, youth, good fortune, even love itself, cannot keep care and pain, loss and sorrow, from the most blest; for— "Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and sad and dreary."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

A veces no funciona, es lento, impreciso, la información es enorme y poco estructurada y lo peor es que es muy caro (en Francia).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The fairies entered largely into the lives and into the folk-lore of the Highland people, and the following examples of things named after the fairies indicate the manner in which the fairies dominated the minds of the people of Gaeldom:— teine sith , ‘fairy fire’ ( ignis fatuus ); breaca sith , ‘fairy marks,’ livid spots appearing on the faces of the dead or dying; marcachd shith , ‘fairy riding,’ paralysis of the spine in animals, alleged to be brought on by the fairy mouse riding across the backs of animals while they are lying down; piob shith , ‘fairy pipe’ or ‘elfin pipe’, generally found in ancient underground houses; miaran na mna sithe , ‘the thimble of the fairy woman,’ the fox-glove; lion na mna sithe , ‘lint of the fairy woman,’ fairy flax, said to be beneficial in certain illnesses; and curachan na mna sithe , ‘coracle of the fairy woman,’ the shell of the blue valilla.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

"Si cujuslibet eximiæ pulcherrimæque feminæ caput capillo spoliaveris et faciem nativâ specie nudaveris, licet illa cœlo dejecta, mari edita, fluctibus educata, licet, inquam Venus ipsa fuerit, licet omni Gratiarum choro stipata, et toto Cupidinum populo comitata et baltheo suo cincta, cinnama fragrans et balsama rorans, calva processerit, placere non poterit nec Vulcano suo."
— from The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius Comprising the Ethiopics; or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The pastoral amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and the loves of Clitopho and Leucippe by of Emesa Heliodorus

As a rule for everyday life it would never do, and might be fraught with injustice.
— from The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton

Some writings, as for example Lindesay in the play of the Three Estates , acted in the North in 1535 [1138] , severely censure the inclinations which are fostered in the convent.
— from Woman under Monasticism Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500 by Lina Eckenstein

Leaving the cliffs he made for the uplands, for a few earths lay in the gullies that seamed them, and here and there a disused mine-work offered a safe retreat to fox and badger.
— from Wild Life at the Land's End Observations of the Habits and Haunts of the Fox, Badger, Otter, Seal, Hare and of Their Pursuers in Cornwall by J. C. (John Coulson) Tregarthen

These kindly German people, these pleasant, social customs, “this golden, fair enchanted life in the valley of Bohemia”—how I shall miss them when I go!
— from By-gone Tourist Days: Letters of Travel by Laura G. Case Collins

We'll fight it out together, you two and I. It's worth fighting for, everlasting life is.
— from In His Steps by Charles M. Sheldon

The fragrance of the fields enters largely into that obscure but delightful group of images, which rise in our minds on the mere names of spring , summer , the country , and seems to represent the very form of ethereal purity, as if it were the breath of heaven itself.
— from Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind (Vol. 1 of 3) by Thomas Brown

From eggs laid in May and June the butterflies appear in August and September.
— from The Butterflies of the British Isles by Richard South