This impress M. Sainte-Beuve thought he found in the Antiquites de Rome, and the Regrets, which he ranks as what has been called poesie intime, that intensely modern sort of poetry in which the writer has for his aim the portraiture of his own most intimate moods, and to take the reader into his confidence.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

So he ascended a high elevation made for him, and took his seat, in a throne made of gold, and spake kindly to the multitude, and declared with what joy he received their acclamations, and the marks of the good-will they showed to him; and returned them thanks that they did not remember the injuries his father had done them to his disadvantage; and promised them he would endeavor not to be behindhand with them in rewarding their alacrity in his service, after a suitable manner; but that he should abstain at present from the name of king, and that he should have the honor of that dignity, if Cæsar should confirm and settle that testament which his father had made; and that it was on this account, that when the army would have put the diadem on him at Jericho, he would not accept of that honor, which is usually so much desired, because it was not yet evident that he who was to be principally concerned in bestowing it would give it him; although, by his acceptance of the government, he should not want the ability of rewarding their kindness to him and that it should be his endeavor, as to all things wherein they were concerned, to prove in every respect better than his father.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

And then I set myself to reflect how I had tended him in infancy, and watched him grow to youth, and followed him almost through his whole course; and what absurd nonsense it was to yield to that sense of horror.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

I could understand how his wife must feel for him, and I was glad that her affection was so tender.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

I attach more importance to these deep incisions into the enemy's country, because this war differs from European wars in this particular: we are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war, as well as their organized armies.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The old man who has had his freaks, Renowned for his acumen, wit, But now ridiculous a bit.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

You will lodge him in the old Tower here, where a room shall be prepared for him; and his work being done, you will restore him to his home with the same speed and secrecy with which you brought him from it.”
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

For a time the sober ants did as they had done at first—carried their friends home and threw the strangers overboard.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

He was, indeed, precisely as courteous to Mrs. Fisher herself; and when for the first time at that table politics were introduced, he listened to her with the proper seriousness on her exhibiting a desire to speak, and treated her opinions with the attention they deserved.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

f. Collateral f. Dutiful and officious f. Haunch and side f. Optical and perspective f. Nestling, ninny, and youngling f. Algoristic
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

If, in the cause of justice, she took Derrick's part, Regina would sulk for hours, and if, on the other hand, she supported her friend, the Stripling [197] would declare that girls always sided together and would hint gloomily that he had finished with the fair sex for ever.
— from Loyal to the School by Angela Brazil

These are written from a structural rather than a biblioraphical point of view, and will be found under the following headings: ``Atlas and Epistropheus,'' J. Anat.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Sir Hiram Maxim found, however, as the result of his experiments that the thrust with a propeller travelling through the air at a velocity of 40 miles an hour was the same as when stationary, the r.p.m.
— from The Theory and Practice of Model Aeroplaning by V. E. (Valentine Edward) Johnson

No rich man doeth this except under the power of a dominant faith which teacheth him that the thing which is best for all believers is best for him; and that the common good is better than self-aggrandizement.
— from Arius the Libyan: A Romance of the Primitive Church by Nathan C. (Nathan Chapman) Kouns

[259] Fourier has accomplished this brilliantly, even though in carrying out his ideas, he approached the utopia.
— from Woman and Socialism by August Bebel

In the other the trees find difficult footing; castles of white rock lie tumbled one upon another, the foot slips, the crooked viper slumbers, the moss clings in the crevice; and above it all the great beech goes spiring and casting forth her arms, and, with a grace beyond church architecture, canopies this rugged chaos.
— from Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson

Her sister came for her and took her away.
— from The Crimson Cryptogram: A Detective Story by Fergus Hume

Carried away by an outburst of feeling, he approached her with open arms.
— from On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern

Farther on Burton gives them the very name assigned to one of them by Shakespeare, for he adds, 'These have several names in several places: we commonly call them Pucks ' (part i., sect.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 1 Miscellaneous Prose by Charles Lamb