The first, this philosopher of ours; the second was a man who wrote a treatise on Oratorical Art; the third was the orator who spoke against Demosthenes; the fourth was an Arcadian, a disciple of Isocrates; the fifth was a citizen of Mitylene, whom they used to call the Scourge of the Orators; the sixth was a Neapolitan, a philosopher of the Academy, a disciple and favourite of Melanthius, of Rhode; the seventh was a Milesian, a political writer; the eighth was a statuary.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Then abruptly he sat down before the table, put his head on his arms, and began to sob and weep like a little boy, in a perfect passion of emotion, while I, with a curious forgetfulness of my own recent despair, stood beside him, wondering.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

[A13] be full of morsels of rice.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

mumhuun a full of morsels of rice or corn.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Franzia, who had faithfully obeyed my orders, returned before noon from the city with all the articles I had asked for.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Those delights are to be steeped in the humour and silence of the night; and give the day to other open pleasures, and jollities of feasting, of music, of revels, of discourse: we'll have all, sir, that may make your Hymen high and happy.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

For, as far as my freedom goes, I am bound by no obligation even with regard to Divine Laws—which are apprehended by me only through my reason—except in so far as I could have given my assent to them; for it is through the law of freedom of my own reason that I first form for myself a concept of a Divine Will.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

It was dry also, for at the bottom of the cavity lay a foot or more of rotten tinder and moss brought there by rats or birds.
— from Black Heart and White Heart: A Zulu Idyll by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

[Youssouf MOUSSA]; Mahoran Popular Movement or MPM [Ahmed MADI]; Federation of Mahorans or RPR [Mansour KAMARDINE]; Movement for Department Status Mayotte or MDM [Mouhoutar SALIM]; Socialist Party or PS (local branch of French Parti Socialiste)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

One argument which has been much relied upon (but not more than its just weight deserves) is the conformity of the facts occasionally mentioned or referred to in Scripture with the state of things in those times, as represented by foreign and independent accounts; which conformity proves, that the writers of the New Testament possessed a species of local knowledge which could belong only to an inhabitant of that country and to one living in that age.
— from Evidences of Christianity by William Paley

Nor do we trust in the faculty of memory or reasoning as such, even after that we have inferred its existence; for its acts are often inaccurate, nor do we invariably assent to them.
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman

Almost he was aware of flowers, of music, of rhythmic movement.
— from The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood

[Youssouf MOUSSA]; Mahoran Popular Movement or MPM [Ahmed MADI]; Federation of Mahorans or RPR (UMP)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Only a fancy of my own," replied Gerda, reddening with one of her sudden fits of blushing, as she turned to the dressing-table and began to comb her flaxen hair.
— from The School by the Sea by Angela Brazil

The cutting of trenches a few years ago brought to light walls of a mean thickness of more than nine feet, formed of masses of rock and sand and round pieces of wood parallel with a revêtement of dry stones surmounted by a palisade consisting of three pieces of wood parallel with the walls, and seven perpendicular traverses.
— from Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de

This detritus is irregularly accumulated; in part it is disposed in the form of moraines or rude mounds made at the margin of the glacier, in part as an irregular sheet, now thick, now thin, which covers the whole of the field over which the ice lay.
— from Outlines of the Earth's History: A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler