First, let us enquire what we mean by saying that fire is hot; and about this we may reason from the dividing or cutting power which it exercises on our bodies.
— from Timaeus by Plato

First let us examine the simpler and more important case of imitative magic.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

They had firm lips, unquailing eyes, and a kingly stateliness of bearing.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

His face lighted up; eager and hectic, he met the honest glance of his visitor.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

“First let us examine into the security of your fortress,” he answered, “and then we will speak of rest.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Thou dost bind The elements in balanced harmony, So that the hot and cold, the moist and dry, Contend not; nor the pure fire leaping up Escape, or weight of waters whelm the earth.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

The generation of Negroes which have grown up since the war have lost in large measure the traditional and wholesome awe of the white race which kept the Negroes in subjection, even when their masters were in the army, and their families left unprotected except by the slaves themselves.
— from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

To appreciate this fully, let us examine the process they thus exalt.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

(From left upper entrance with two gliding steps Henry Flower comes forward to left front centre.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The little man's face lighted up eagerly.
— from The House of Toys by Henry Russell Miller

This being over the match was applied and the flames leaped up eagerly and encircled the writhing forms of Bud and Foresta.
— from The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

It was fun at first, lookin' up every arroyo and slit in the hills, till we found it.
— from Overland Red: A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Henry Herbert Knibbs

But the two exclaimed with one voice, "Father, let us enjoy our happiness undisturbed.
— from The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country by W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby

What Swift had so far left undone, either from political reasons or from motives of personal restraint, he completed [Pg xv] in what may, without exaggeration, be called his satirical masterpiece—the "Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from being a Burthen to their Parents."
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish by Jonathan Swift

Burning oil was [Pg 243] flung all over the room, and the flames leaped up eagerly.
— from Frank Merriwell's Pursuit; Or, How to Win by Burt L. Standish

Shall I read books, Or write more verse—or turn fond looks Upon enamels blue, sea-green, And white—on insects rare as seen Upon my Dresden china ware?
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

"Nay first lett us examine this;" and would not goe a word further.
— from Diary of John Manningham Of the Middle Temple, and of Bradbourne, Kent, Barrister‑at‑Law, 1602-1603 by John Manningham

And now while Lionel, rejoining her, exerts all his eloquence to allay her anxiety and encourage her hopes, and while they thus, in that divinest stage of love, ere the tongue repeats what the eyes have told, glide along-here in sunlight by lingering flowers—there in shadow under mournful willows, whose leaves are ever the latest to fall, let us explain by what links of circumstance Sophy became the great lady’s guest, and Waife once more a homeless wanderer.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron