The cordial and manly greetings of the British and Irish audiences in public, and the refinement and elegance of the social circles in which he mingled, not only as an equal, but as a recognized man of genius, were, doubtless, genial and pleasant resting places in his hitherto thorny and troubled journey through life.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The mouth is widely opened with the lips retracted in a peculiar manner, which causes it to assume a squarish form; the gums or teeth being more or less exposed.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

So they are regularly guilty of the circle which, according to Smith, is implied in the very idea of a sacrificial tribute: they give to the sacred beings a little of what they receive from them, and they receive from them all that they give.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

He put a patch over his left eye, took his Guitar in hand, and posted himself at the Gate of the Convent.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

So too in v. 8, having mentioned the Romans, he goes on to speak of οἱ ἄλλοι Ἕλληνες.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

In spite of generals, off they go.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

"What's the good of that to me?
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

The remote distance to which the army of Alexander had advanced, to Bactra and India, gave occasion to the introduction of many disorderly acts, and to this among others.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

"Mrs. Crosbie was at the gate of the Pixy's House at the time Bellaria Dondi was murdered.
— from The Sealed Message by Fergus Hume

This personage was Gaspar de Guzman, then but a gentleman of the Prince’s chamber (which post he owed to Calderon, whose creature he was supposed to be), afterwards so celebrated in the history of Philip IV., as Count of Olivares and prime minister of Spain.
— from Calderon the Courtier, a Tale by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

In his account of what had taken place, Dwight confirmed the idea Banks had already derived from the despatch that Dwight had sent from Grand Gulf on the 16th, before he had seen Grant.
— from History of the Nineteenth Army Corps by Richard B. (Richard Biddle) Irwin

My wondering eyes in gradual revelation; The house that He had built, its strong foundation, Its living stones; and, brightening more and more, Fair glimpses of that palace far away, Where all His loyal ones shall dwell with Him for aye.
— from Kept for the Master's Use by Frances Ridley Havergal

King Ulric of Mauravania is there as the guest of the Republic.
— from Cleek of Scotland Yard: Detective Stories by Thomas W. Hanshew

So, I had discharged the gun over the sea, and had loaded her, according to orders, and there it had lain at the Captain’s feet, convenient to the Captain’s hand.
— from The Perils of Certain English Prisoners by Charles Dickens

When a disease is peculiar to a people or nation, and appears to depend on local causes, it is said to be ‘ ENDEMIC ’ or ‘ ENCHORIAL ,’ Thus, Asiatic cholera may be taken as an example of the first, and the agues of low countries, and the goitre of the Alps, as examples of the other.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

"The best defence against the enemy's fire is a rapid fire from our own guns," was a pithy phrase of our Admiral Farragut; and in no mere punning sense it may be added that it is for this reason that the rapid-fire gun of the present day made such big strides in professional favor, the instant it was brought to the test of battle.
— from Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The possessions of the first, and their annual rental, are universally known, and concealment as to them is impossible or sure of detection; the gains of the last are entirely secret, and wrapped up, even to the owner, in books or accounts, generally unintelligible in all cases but those of considerable merchants—to all but the persons who prepared them.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various

He considered his nephew the greatest of the Ferraguts, a true man of the sea like his ancestors but with the title of captain;—an adventurous rover over all oceans, as he had been, but with a place on the bridge, invested with the absolute command that responsibility and danger confer.
— from Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez