For example, the king is often called a lion; hence at the death of a king named Lion a new name for lions in general has to be coined.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

This, however, seems to be the effect, not so much of any diminution in the value of silver in the European market, as of an increase in the demand for labour in Great Britain, arising from the great, and almost universal prosperity of the country.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

How then are we to look for love in great cities, where selfishness, dissipation, and insincerity supply the place of tenderness, simplicity and truth?'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

One of the present writers took his first lessons in gesture from a certain college president who knew far more about what had happened at the Diet of Worms than he did about how to express himself in action.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

I kind of feel life is going to be different, now that we're getting a good rest and can go back and start over again.”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

For how is it possible to hint of a delicate female, living in good society, that she ate and drank too much, and that a hot supper of lobsters profusely enjoyed at the Rectory was the reason of an indisposition which Miss Crawley herself persisted was solely attributable to the dampness of the weather?
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Numerous fleets of merchantmen, of great size for those days, were employed in transporting cloth, grain of all kinds, knives, brandy, salt, and other merchandise, which were bartered for leather, ivory, gum, amber, and gold dust.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Although thou hadst all the good things which ever were created, yet couldst not thou be happy and blessed; all thy blessedness and thy felicity lieth in God who created all things; not such felicity as seemeth good to the foolish lover of the world, but such as Christ's good and faithful servants wait for, and as the spiritual and pure in heart sometimes taste, whose conversation is in heaven.(1)
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

First in the council hall to steer the state, And ever foremost in a tongue-debate, While our strong walls secure us from the foe, Ere yet with blood our ditches overflow: But let the potent orator declaim, And with the brand of coward blot my name; Free leave is giv’n him, when his fatal hand Has cover’d with more corps the sanguine strand, And high as mine his tow’ring trophies stand.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

They can't keep you from lookin', I guess."
— from The Circus Comes to Town by Lebbeus Mitchell

Illustrated 88 9 FIRST LESSONS IN GEOMETRY.
— from Marks' first lessons in geometry In two parts. Objectively presented, and designed for the use of primary classes in grammar schools, academies, etc. by Bernhard Marks

As Milton's moving principle was not any preconceived system of doctrine but the passion for liberty in general, it was natural that he should plead, when occasion called, for liberty of the press, among others.
— from Milton by Mark Pattison

Two lie dead back there in the dunes and four lie in gaol!
— from A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari And Other Tales of South-West Africa by Frederick Carruthers Cornell

Now then advance ye; and the blaze of fire, Let it go forth, that so this company Stand forth propitious, henceforth and for aye, In rearing race of noblest citizens, Enter an array of women, young and old, in procession, leading the Erinnyes—now, as propitiated, the Eumenides or Gentle Ones—to their shrines Chorus of Athenian women
— from Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments by Aeschylus

The first letther I got was from my old uncle.
— from Babes in the Bush by Rolf Boldrewood

The blood ebbed from his face, leaving it ghastly with fear and fury.
— from The Imprudence of Prue by Sophie Fisher

Stimulated by the success at Rome fifty years earlier, they were, with fresh insolence, demanding "land," and during the centuries which followed, the Gallic name acquired no fresh lustre in Greece.
— from The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of France by Mary Platt Parmele

It has, however, had the good fortune to be translated into several foreign languages; into German by Bertuch, in 1789; into Italian by the Abbé Garzia, Venice, 1789; into French by Grainville, Paris, 1800; and into English by Mr. Belfour, London, 1807.
— from Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain by James Kennedy