n goods laid out on the sidewalk for display.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

That the mass was composed of individual lives, innumerable separate centres of sensation, with her own eager reachings for pleasure, her own fierce revulsions from pain—that some of these bundles of feeling were clothed in shapes not so unlike her own, with eyes meant to look on gladness, and young lips shaped for love—this discovery gave Lily one of those sudden shocks of pity that sometimes decentralize a life.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

If, in everything which men are accustomed to characterize as just or unjust, some one common attribute or collection of attributes is always present, we may judge whether this particular attribute or combination of attributes would be capable of gathering round it a sentiment of that peculiar character and intensity by virtue of the general laws of our emotional constitution, or whether the sentiment is inexplicable, and requires to be regarded as a special provision of Nature.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

We have brought into view only a few of the more prominent peaks which rise above the range of knightly virtues, in themselves so much more elevated than the general level of our national life.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

One sunny afternoon when I had come home from school with my books and portfolio, watching my long shadow at my side, and as I was gliding upstairs to my room as usual, my godmother looked out of the parlour-door and called me back.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

His general line of operations extended from the Apennines to Verona.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Our gang laid out on the mizen topsail yard, and after more than half an hour's hard work, furled the sail, though it bellied out over our heads, and again, by a slant of the wind, blew in under the yard, with a fearful jerk, and almost threw us off from the foot-ropes.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

For in Man's Soul is His very dwelling; and the highest light and the brightest shining of the City is the glorious love of our Lord, as to my sight.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

See 235. onion , bulb-o. only , sol-a; ( mere ), nur-a. opera , oper-o; — glasses , lornet-o. opinion , opini-o. opportune , oportun-a. opposed to ( prep. ), kontraŭ.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

She makes a good living out of such stories, they say."
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The general leant on one side, said a word to his master, and pressed his arm in the manner of a gay companion.
— from The Rush for the Spoil (La Curée): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

At six o'clock, far across the country we saw the gleaming lights of our camp-fires and the green tents that were to be our homes for many weeks to come.
— from In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by John T. (John Tinney) McCutcheon

On the seventh of May the young warriors should gather on the green near Detroit to play ball, while the older men lay on the ground looking on, or loitered in and about the fort.
— from Four American Indians: King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola by Edson Leone Whitney

Our own city of New York is considered by many to have become incapable of intelligent self-government, and to exhibit those evils which, especially under a government like our own, flow from the collection of a very large population at one point.
— from Slavery by James L. (James Loring) Baker

Sometimes I think God looks out of the eyes of the hungry.
— from Silas Strong, Emperor of the Woods by Irving Bacheller

If land is to be owned at all in such great lumps, owners ought at least to live on the lumps, and to pass very high examinations as practical farmers.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

The Galway line of ocean steamers now touches at Newfoundland, whose waters abound with the finest fish.
— from The Game Fish, of the Northern States and British Provinces With an account of the salmon and sea-trout fishing of Canada and New Brunswick, together with simple directions for tying artificial flies, etc., etc. by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt