To the left the picturesque shores were fringed with clumps of bamboo, then a hill overlooking the lake, with wide ricefields beyond, then red roofs amid the deep green of the trees,—the town of Kalamba,—and beyond the shore-line fading into the distance, with the horizon at the back closing down over the water, giving the lake the appearance of a sea and justifying the name the Indians give it of dagat na tabang , or fresh-water sea.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Any departure from these plain rules of good breeding is downright rudeness and insult; or, at all events, it betrays great ignorance or disregard for propriety.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Schoelcher is of an heroic nature, he has the grand impatience of danger.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

As, for the earth throwne lowest downe of all, 50 T'were an ambition to desire to fall, So God, in our desire to dye, doth know Our plot for ease, in being wretched so.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

(Now, as regards learning and philosophy, the condition of Greece in our day reminds one somewhat of the tales and traditions of the Egyptians.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Set eye upon that fellow; Follow him to mass; may be Antonio, Although he do account religion But a school-name, for fashion of the world May accompany him; or else go inquire out Delio's confessor, and see if you can bribe Him to reveal it.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

—If God is our defence, who is against us?
— 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.

RIGHT THERETO: the ideal of a spirit who plays naively (that is to say involuntarily and from overflowing abundance and power) with everything that has hitherto been called holy, good, intangible, or divine; to whom the loftiest conception which the people have reasonably made their measure of value, would already practically imply danger, ruin, abasement, or at least relaxation, blindness, or temporary self-forgetfulness; the ideal of a humanly superhuman welfare and benevolence, which will often enough appear INHUMAN, for example, when put alongside of all past seriousness on earth, and alongside of all past solemnities in bearing, word, tone, look, morality, and pursuit, as their truest involuntary parody—and WITH which, nevertheless, perhaps THE GREAT SERIOUSNESS only commences, when the proper interrogative mark is set up, the fate of the soul changes, the hour-hand moves, and tragedy begins...”
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“'There was a graven image of Desire Painted with red blood on a ground of gold.'” murmured Gouvernail, under his breath.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

The council was convened to ask them if they would consent to receive goods instead of dollars in payment of the pensions due to them on the sale of their lands, and which, by the conditions of sale, were to be paid in money.
— from Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

The "fair young god," Iacchos, or Dionysos, or Bacchus, was the son of Jupiter and Ceres, and accompanied the goddess in her search for Persephone.
— from The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites by Dudley Wright

His son Ahaziah succeeded him at Jerusalem B.C. 885, but formed an alliance with Jehoram, king of Israel, and after a brief and wicked reign of one year, he was slain by Jehu, the great instrument of divine vengeance on the idolaters.
— from Ancient States and Empires For Colleges and Schools by John Lord

Besides, as ill-luck would have it, the water was in an unusually brilliant phosphorescent condition just then, the slightest disturbance of it caused a silvery glow that could be seen a mile away; and, be as silent as we might, the dip of our oars and the passage of the boats through the water set up such a blaze as could not fail to betray us, should a man happen to glance in our direction.
— from A Middy of the Slave Squadron: A West African Story by Harry Collingwood

The "ball," if we may so say, "was set rolling" in 1869 and 1870, and a great increase of demand was then created in certain trades and propagated through all trades.
— from Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market by Walter Bagehot

The former refers to those who are now being gathered into the Church: the latter, on the contrary, refers to the times of Gentile supremacy which began with Nebuchadnezzar, and runs on to the time when "the stone cut out without hands" shall fall, in crushing power, upon the great image of Daniel ii.
— from Notes on the Book of Deuteronomy, Volume I by Charles Henry Mackintosh

He threw up his hands with a gesture indicative of despair.
— from Love Works Wonders: A Novel by Charlotte M. Brame

The German reformer made all outward change depend on the gradual influence of doctrine, and did not wish to set himself in rebellious opposition to the public order under which he lived.
— from A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Leopold von Ranke

William, King of Scotland, had also entered into this great confederacy; and a plan was concerted for a general invasion on different parts of the king's extensive and factious dominions.
— from The History of England, Volume I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume