Letters of commendation were received from editors, ministers, senators and generals.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Once you have eaten it, you will experience neither hunger nor thirst; old age and death will have no power over you: you will live for ever.” Miao Shan ate the magic peach, took leave of Ju Lai, and started on the way to Hsiang Shan.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

There dy'd the gen'rous fire, whose vig'rous flame Enlarged my soul, and urg'd me on to same; Nor fame, nor wealth, my soften'd heart could move, Dully insensible to all but love.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

Then when they made open revolt, they did as follows:—after setting apart their mothers first, each man set apart also for himself one woman, whosoever he wished of his own household, and all the remainder they gathered together and killed by suffocation.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

As far as we can judge, only a few expressive movements, such as those just referred to, are learned by each individual; that is, were consciously and voluntarily performed during the early years of life for some definite object, or in imitation of others, and then became habitual.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It was all the more comical, as I doubt whether the child felt real disgust—the eyes and forehead expressing much surprise and consideration.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

As far as we can judge, only a few expressive movements, such as those just referred to, are learnt by each individual; that is, were consciously and voluntarily performed during the early years of life for some definite object, or in imitation of others, and then became habitual.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

"O heavenly, heavenly flowers!" exclaimed Miss Sharp, and smelt them delicately, and held them to her bosom, and cast up her eyes to the ceiling, in an ecstasy of admiration.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

For example, my sister and myself and our coachman, and apparently the horse, saw the same phenomenon at the same moment: one evening we were driving along an avenue in this parish when the avenue seemed to be blocked by a great crowd of people, like a funeral procession; and the crowd was so dense that we could not see through it.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

From early morning strenuous activities and efforts had begun and by ten o’clock all had been brought into due order.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

A pleasant, bungalow-like, garden-town; spacious houses, with pretentious façades in the pseudo-classic style of the first empire; mostly squat and inconvenient, irregular, bright with native carpentry, stucco, painted metal roofs, and clean washed walls.
— from The Story of Moscow by Wirt Gerrare

After this disheartening setback a son of the former emperor moved south and set up a new capital in the coastal city of Hangchow, whose charms the Chinese were fond of comparing favorably with heaven (in the refrain, "Heaven above; Hangchow below").
— from The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover

I have also added fairly extensive marginal summaries and a full index.
— from Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness by Henri Bergson

Facts even more striking are supplied by the old nests of the Masked Anthophora (A. personata, ILLIG.), old nests which I have seen utilized by the Horned Osmia and the Three-horned Osmia at the same time.
— from Bramble-Bees and Others by Jean-Henri Fabre

Only the noise of heavy and rapid footsteps, each moment stronger and more distinct, comes to my ears.
— from The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

So, my good Peter, be off at once, for every moment seems an hour till I learn her decision.” “Wait a bit, sir,—wait a bit; you haven't heard my plan yet.
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

I found a tawdry room and there sat I, There angled for each murmur soft and strange, The pavement-cries from darkness and below: I watched the drinkers laugh, the lovers sigh, And thought how little all the world would change If clowns were audience, and we the Show.
— from Forty-Two Poems by James Elroy Flecker

I thought then, as I stood there, how absolutely alone I was in the great world—how shut out from everything my strength and manhood seemed to have a right to demand.
— from Dead Man's Love by Tom Gallon