Their arms, their gradations of rank, their order of battle, their method of intrenchment, were all of Latin origin, and had all been gradually brought near to perfection, not by the study of foreign models, but by the genius and experience of many generations of great native commanders.
— from Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

He was generous, obliging, ready to talk to the humblest about anything, as long as they cared to talk to him.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

‘I am obliged to you for your good opinion,’ retorted the single gentleman, ‘and quite concur in these sentiments.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The possibility of experience is, then, that which gives objective reality to all our a priori cognitions.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look which tells that the mind is full of what it has to give out, rather than impressed by external objects.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

] MODINIER, steward to Monsieur de Watteville; "governor" of Rouxey, the patrimonial estate of the Wattevilles.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Not only would they have refrained from constantly comparing Plato to Leibnitz, on whom his spirit certainly did not rest, or indeed to a [pg 225] well-known gentleman who is still alive, 44 as if they wanted to mock the manes of the great thinker of the past; but they would have advanced much farther in general, or rather they would not have fallen so disgracefully far behind as they have in the last forty years.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

He has pleaded before Aix Parlements ( to get back his wife ); the public gathering on roofs, to see since they could not hear: "the clatter-teeth ( claque-dents )!"
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

He thinks that the twofold meaning of the word ‘Alpha,’ or ‘Ilpha,’ which, in the Phœnician dialect, meant either a ship or a bull, gave occasion to the fable; and that the Greeks, on reading the annals of the Phœnicians, by mistake, took the word in the latter sense.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Ground of right, the point defined, 139 ; sometimes confounded with ground of obligation, 138 – 139 ; various theories, 140 – 167 ; Egyptian, 140 ; Chinese, 141 ; Indian, 142 ; Zoroastrian, 142 – 143 ; Greek, 143 – 148 ; Roman, 148 ; Divine absolutism, 149 – 150 ; of Hobbes, 151 ; sympathetic, 152 ; utilitarian, 152 – 165 ; of relations, 165 ; spiritual excellence, 166 ; direct intuition, 167 ; as subjective or objective, 139 – 140 , 168 ; proximate ground, 168 – 178 ; ultimate, 178 – 181 ; not in mere "will" of God, 179 – 180 .
— from Theoretical Ethics by M. (Milton) Valentine

There are few reputable magazines today, we venture to believe, that would be willing to go on record to the effect that it is not their “custom to verify the claims of advertisers.”
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

I know how in that mood He leans on me as babe on mother’s breast, Nor could he choose but let his foot descend Where mine left lightest pressure; so are passed The brute three-visaged, and the flowerless ways, Nor have I turned my head; and now behold The greyness of remote terrestrial light,
— from Poems by Edward Dowden

I told her, I said, "I am glad; I guess get better because if they let you so easy to get out Russia then that's get little bit better now and I guess they better friends."
— from Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

‘I won’t go out,’ reiterated the conjurer.
— from Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller

The visions of the seer are at first too vivid, too bewildering in the fresh glory of revelation, to be told (if he would set them forth on canvas) in any but broken lights and shadowy images.
— from Dante Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite movement by Esther (of Hampstead) Wood

They found themselves in a vast cave which was dimly lighted by the tiny grains of radium that lay scattered among the loose rocks.
— from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Colonel Santander it was, like all the rest somewhat excited by drink; but still not so far gone as to forget gallantry, or rather the pretence of it.
— from The Free Lances: A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid