Men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

There was a picture of the earth on the first page of his geography: a big ball in the middle of clouds.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

183 The Giant and the Tailor A certain tailor who was great at boasting but ill at doing, took it into his head to go abroad for a while, and look about the world.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

[132] And we may compare this American spirit-haunted hill with similar natural hills in Scotland said to be fairy knolls: one near the turning of a road from Reay Wick to Safester, Isle of Unst; [133] one the well-known fairy-haunted Tomnahurich, near Inverness; [133] and a third, the hill at Aberfoyle on which the ‘people of peace’ took the Rev. Robert Kirk when he profaned it by walking on it; or we may equate the American hill with the fairy-haunted Slieve Gullion and Ben Bulbin in Ireland.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Of course she's getting a bit broad in the beam.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Morrel threw a glance around, but before it reached the spot occupied by Monte Cristo the latter had advanced yet nearer, still unperceived.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

So saying, he wiped the moisture from his face, and proceeded in these words: “Sir, your story is plausible; and your friend is a good advocate; but before I give an answer to your demand, I must beg leave to ask if you can produce undeniable evidence of your being the identical person you really assume?
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

99 Illi vero non modo cum hostibus, verum etiam cum fluctibus, id quod fecit, dimicare melius fuit quam deserere consentientem Graeciam ad bellum barbaris inferendum.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Let me suppose that Hippocrates, instead of desiring your acquaintance, wished to become acquainted with the young man Zeuxippus of Heraclea, who has lately been in Athens, and he had come to him as he has come to you, and had heard him say, as he has heard you say, that every day he would grow and become better if he associated with him: and then suppose that he were to ask him, 'In what shall I become better, and in what shall I grow?'—Zeuxippus would answer, 'In painting.'
— from Protagoras by Plato

Nancy hated herself for flushing so unreasonably again, and Steve, not daring to look towards her, was hurrying to the rescue, when the old woman with a swift, keen glance at both, broke in with: “No, pap, no they hain’t,” piped shrilly into the old man’s ear.
— from The Boy from Hollow Hut A Story of the Kentucky Mountains by Isla May Mullins

Good mother, replied the king, I would grant it with all my heart, if I was disposed to part with so good a beast; but if I were so disposed, I believe you would hardly give a thousand pieces of gold for her, which is the lowest price I shall ever put upon her.
— from The Arabian Nights, Volume 3 (of 4) by Anonymous

I'm an old traveler and have found that I never gain anything by being in a hurry.
— from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

St. Augustine says, that the spirit signifies the Father, water the Holy Ghost, and by blood is meant the Word.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 by Voltaire

We have had a tough time of it, and he has lost his grip a bit; but I am dead sure that if we stick by him he will pull through all right.”
— from A Year in a Yawl A True Tale of the Adventures of Four Boys in a Thirty-foot Yawl by Russell Doubleday

She wondered much over the house she was in, and if her jailer, the gaudily attired blonde beauty, inhabited such a shabby apartment as she allotted to her guests.
— from Kathleen's Diamonds; or, She Loved a Handsome Actor by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

In the context in which the name is found in the passage given above, beginning back in the seventh chapter of Romans, seventh verse, Paul is drawing a contrast between the law of Moses outside a man, holy and just and good, it is true, but impotent, and the living Spirit of God in the heart, imparting spiritual and moral life to the believer and enabling him thus to meet the requirements of the law of God, so that what the law alone could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, the Spirit of God imparting life to the believer and dwelling in the heart enables him to do, so that the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in those who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.
— from The Person and Work of The Holy Spirit by R. A. (Reuben Archer) Torrey

At the other end, in an open circle, a fountain played; white marble girls and boys bathing in the jade-green basin.
— from Space Viking by H. Beam Piper

"I want to get another brace before I return if I can."
— from In the Van; or, The Builders by John Price-Brown