And noticing a gleam of light peeping in beside one of the serge curtains, he cheerfully dropped his feet over the edge of the sofa, and felt about with them for his slippers, a present on his last birthday, worked for him by his wife on gold-colored morocco.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The perfection of style is variety in unity, freedom, ease, clearness, the power of saying anything, and of striking any note in the scale of human feelings without impropriety; and such is the divine gift of language possessed by Plato in the Symposium and Phaedrus.
— from Laws by Plato

1 Through seven gates the goddess of Love passes in search of her beloved, and at each some of her ornaments and clothing are removed by the dread guardian.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

More, he gave one large plot of ground, thereupon to build the new parish church of St. Stephen, near unto Walbrooke, etc.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

‘“Why, you snivelling, wry-faced, puny villain,” gasped old Lobbs, paralysed by the atrocious confession; “what do you mean by that?
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

He employed for this purpose a woman named Locusta, who had been a witness against some persons guilty of like practices.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

And careful inspection of methods which are permanently successful in formal education, whether in arithmetic or learning to read, or studying geography, or learning physics or a foreign language, will reveal that they depend for their efficiency upon the fact that they go back to the type of the situation which causes reflection out of school in ordinary life.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

“Poverty is not a vice, my friend, but we know you go off like powder, you can’t bear a slight, I daresay you took offence at something and went too far yourself,” continued Nikodim Fomitch, turning affably to Raskolnikov. “
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

M. of the government of Louis Philippe.
— 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.

His fortune is greater or less, precisely in proportion to the extent of this power, or to the quantity either of other men's labour, or, what is the same thing, of the produce of other men's labour, which it enables him to purchase or command.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

"I'm afraid he inherits too much of his grandpa's temper," remarked Mr. Dinsmore, but with a glance of loving pride bestowed upon the beautiful babe.
— from Elsie's Womanhood by Martha Finley

680 The Case of Ship-Money briefly discussed, according to the Grounds of Law, Policy, and Conscience.
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

The moment we call the ground of localization physiological, we need only point out how , in those cases in which localization occurs, the physiological process differs from those in which it does not, to have done all we can possibly do in the matter.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

Year after year, for twenty years, Washington was continually besieged by the soldiers he led West in 1754 or their relatives, who implored [Pg 49] his aid in securing the grant of land promised, and there is no more interesting phase of his life during these years than his patient persistence in compelling Virginia to make good her solemn pledge.
— from Pilots of the Republic: The Romance of the Pioneer Promoter in the Middle West by Archer Butler Hulbert

II O, rejoice Beyond a common joy; and set it down With gold on lasting pillars: in one voyage Did Claribel her husband find at Tunis; And Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife Where he himself was lost; Prospero, his dukedom, In a poor isle; and all of us, ourselves, Where no man was his own.
— from Under the Trees and Elsewhere by Hamilton Wright Mabie

The present owner, Mr. Wilfrid W. Ashley, M.P., great-grandson of Lady Palmerston, has arranged the library as it was in Lord Palmerston’s day, with the high desk—he always wrote standing up—and other articles by which the great statesman was habitually surrounded.
— from Wives of the Prime Ministers, 1844-1906 by Lucy Masterman

Under one of those graceful cloisters, which were the taste of the day, and had been recently built and gayly decorated, the earl was stopped in his path by a group of ladies playing at closheys (ninepins) of ivory; [Narrative of Louis of Bruges, Lord Grauthuse.
— from The Last of the Barons — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

And since then, twelve years before, she had seen generations of lovers pass into the land they thought delectable; and their children flocked to her, hung about her, were carried off by her to the ranch, and kept for days, against the laughing protests of their parents.
— from Northern Lights, Volume 4. by Gilbert Parker

Forward, left and right, just where the great arch separating the main hall comes down, groups of little pines in tubs lend a freshness to the scene.
— from The Americans by Edwin Davies Schoonmaker