For this god is lord of five zones in the heavens; and when he traverses three of these he begets in those three the three Graces.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Then she returned to the kitchen, just as Marilla came grimly in, leading, or rather pulling, the reluctant, cobwebby Davy, whom she had just found hidden away in the darkest corner of the stable.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

No gentleman invites ladies of position to a party unless one or many chaperons are to be present.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

American representatives of American authority in the Islands, sent out to work out such a programme, might be instructed to watch these twelve territorial governments, granting to each the right to elect a governor in lieu of the appointed governor as soon as in their judgment a given territory was worthy of it.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Aditi , the mother of the Gods, is lady of the seventh lunar mansion which is called Punarvasu .
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Do you know that I think the habit you have got into lately, of looking upon Parent as a martyr, is very unpleasant?”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Even when discipline did not accrue as matter of fact, when the pupil even grew in laxity of application and lost power of intelligent self-direction, the fault lay with him, not with the study or the methods of teaching.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Gentleman inside (looking out).
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

For whoever knows the right and is ready to speak it, far-seeing Zeus gives him prosperity; but whoever deliberately lies in his witness and forswears himself, and so hurts Justice and sins beyond repair, that man's generation is left obscure thereafter.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

In front the ground is laid out as an ornamental shrubbery, terminated at one corner by the graceful campanile.
— from A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White

That proposition contemplated the issuing of treasury notes of denominations not less than five, nor more than one hundred dollars, to be employed in payment [567] of the obligations of the government in lieu of gold and silver, at the option of the public creditor, and to an amount not exceeding $15,000,000.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

Within this protecting hedge the ground is laid out in the most picturesque and fantastic manner compatible with a scale of extreme minuteness.
— from The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal by Various

The garden gate is left open till the following morning.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12) by James George Frazer

As soon as a garden is laid out, a hedge set, an orchard planted, the blackbird comes.
— from Birds of the wave and woodland by Phil Robinson

Note 4320 ( return ) [ Goffroy, "Gustave III," letter of Mme.
— from The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte Taine

so long as it is but dressed in hodden or russet; and Revolution, less frequent than War, has not yet got its Laws of Revolution, but the hodden or russet individuals are Uncustomary—O shrieking beloved brother blockheads of Mankind, let us close those wide mouths of ours; let us cease shrieking, and begin considering!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The sharper blame, therefore, do those deserve who misemploy so great and splendid a gift of God in light or unworthy things, and thereby excite men, who of themselves are inclined to all evil, to sin and misdoing.
— from Beethoven and His Forerunners by Daniel Gregory Mason