The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Her abode is concealed in the lowest recesses of a cave, wanting sun, and not pervious to any wind, dismal and filled with benumbing cold; and which is ever without fire, and ever abounding with darkness.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

A fish is termed "hauriant" if it is in a perpendicular position, but though it will usually be represented with the head upwards in default of any specific direction to the contrary, it by no means follows that this is always the case, and it is more correct to state whether the head is upwards or downwards, a practice which it is usually found will be conformed to.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Not with more ease the falcon, from above, Trusses in middle air the trembling dove, Then plumes the prey, in her strong pounces bound: The feathers, foul with blood, come tumbling to the ground.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Nothing was served but pies filled with bitter curd, and milk soup.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

No shrieks now, when he goes to speak; occasional applauses rather, furtherance which breeds confidence.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

H2 anchor CHAPTER VII Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber; Thou hast no figures, nor no fantasies, Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

They use a red powder, flowers, turmeric, etc., for worship; burn camphor and incense; and distribute fruit, dhāl (pulse of Cajanus indicus ), and the like.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The fellow was brought, cap in hand, and the other fellows closed round to look and listen, in the manner of the people at the Paris fountain.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

[29] Again, Free Mobility, as distinct from Congruence, hardly needs to be specially formulated: what barrier could empty space offer to a point's progress?
— from An essay on the foundations of geometry by Bertrand Russell

Otherwise the hawks will become irregular in their habits, and the falconer will be compelled rather to dance attendance on them than they on him.
— from The Art and Practice of Hawking by E. B. (Edward Blair) Michell

One who had experienced up to a certain point the spirit within him was raised to a higher grade, and enjoyed a corresponding degree of authority, not forced from without, but conditioned by the nature of things.
— from Christianity as Mystical Fact, and the Mysteries of Antiquity by Rudolf Steiner

" * Wild Life in the Far West, by Captain James Hobbs.
— from The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

, to perform all their evolutions under water with the aid of their wings; but instead of dashing at once into the midst of the terrified group of small prey, by which only a few would be captured, it passes round and round them, and so drives them into a heap; and thus has an opportunity of snatching here one and there another as it finds it convenient to swallow them; and if any one pushes out to escape, it falls the first prey of the devourer.
— from Animal Intelligence The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV. by George John Romanes

Christ's glorified bodily humanity is the type to which all His followers will be conformed.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

She could only think of the task that lay before her,—to FILL this great, empty room; of the millions and millions, and yet again millions of gems that must fall from her lips before the floor would be covered even a few inches deep; of the weeks and months,—perhaps the years,—that must elapse before she would see her parents and Phelim again.
— from Toto's Merry Winter by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

460 Hymeneal festivals will be celebrated at times fixed with an eye to population, and the brides and bridegrooms will lxxiii meet at them; and by an ingenious system of lots the rulers will contrive that the brave and the fair come together, and that those of inferior breed are paired with inferiors—the latter will ascribe to chance what is really the invention of the rulers.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Gold-mane looked to the shut-beds, and saw that they were large and fair, though there were but a few of them; and at the lower end was a loft for a sleeping chamber dight very fairly with broidered cloths.
— from The Roots of the Mountains Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale, Their Friends, Their Neighbours, Their Foemen, and Their Fellows in Arms by William Morris