A company of soldiers passed through here; when they left they took away with them three of the girls of the village; I will not tell thee who they are; perhaps they will come back, and they will be sure to find those who will take them for wives with all their blemishes, good or bad.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

In the second place, quite apart from the fact that this hypothesis as to the genesis of the value "good" cannot be historically upheld, it suffers from an inherent psychological contradiction.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

40 “Gazetteer of the Vizagapatam District,” 1907, i. 73.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

When the new church was built it was removed to the gardens of the Vatican, where it still remains.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

It was long after their usual hour of retiring, and they had expected him, at the very latest, two hours ago; but the time had not hung heavily on their hands, for Mrs. Nickleby had entertained Smike with a genealogical account of her family by the mother’s side, comprising biographical sketches of the principal members, and Smike had sat wondering what it was all about, and whether it was learnt from a book, or said out of Mrs. Nickleby’s own head; so that they got on together very pleasantly.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

By the spring of 1900, when General MacArthur relieved General Otis, the volunteers of 1899 had gotten thoroughly warmed up to the work of showing the Filipinos who was in fact “the boss of the show,” and by June, 1900, when Judge Taft arrived, they had gotten still warmer 12 ; and in General Otis’s successor they had a commander who understood his men thoroughly, and was determined to carry out honestly, with firmness, and without playing, as his predecessor had done, the rôle of political henchman, the purpose for which the army he commanded had been sent to the Islands to accomplish.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

On the evening of the day on which they had tortured a prisoner to death, the American Indians were wont to run through the village with hideous yells, beating with sticks on the furniture, the walls, and the roofs of the huts to prevent the angry ghost of their victim from settling there and taking vengeance for the torments that his body had endured at their hands.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The thick haze lifted at last; and the sun, like the kindly grandsire of the village, took his seat amid all the work that was going on in home and field.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

But threats cannot suppress the truth, and while the Negro suffers the soul deformity, resultant from two and a half centuries of slavery, he is no more guilty of this vilest of all vile charges than the white man who would blacken his name.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Pears and apples wither on the branches, the fig on the fig-tree, and the clusters of grapes on the vine.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

THE VAL D’OSSAU The gap of the Val d’Ossau—Gan—Original course of the Gave—Buzy—Gorges de Germe—Arudy—Destruction of forests—Boxwood—Cromlechs—Bielle—Independence of the Republic of Ossau—Costume—Dances—Laruns—Eaux Chaudes—Beggary—Gabas—Eaux Bonnes—Death of the Rev. Merton Smith.
— from A Book of the Pyrenees by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

These animals descending from the higher ridges surrounding it, frequently enter the gardens of the villagers, and rob them of their vegetables and chick peas ( cicer arietinus )—the latter being a favourite food of the Syrian bear.
— from Bruin: The Grand Bear Hunt by Mayne Reid

In relation to the distinction between total and partial segmentation, the grouping of the various forms is as follows:— I. Palingenetic (primitive) segmentation.
— from The Evolution of Man by Ernst Haeckel

If he lost there would soon be no game, and the man who won from him too frequently was in danger at any moment of being rated guilty of the very highest sort of treason.
— from When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth by Charles Major

We had twelve horses, carrying only quarter loads each, all led; the servants were mounted, 'water- guides' with ten-foot poles sounded the river ahead, one led Mr. Redslob's horse (the rider being bare-legged) in front of mine with a long rope, and two more led mine, while the gopas of three villages and the zemindar steadied my horse against the stream.
— from Among the Tibetans by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

"Oh fie, my dear Mr. Watson!" cried his wife, quite shocked to think her husband should be guilty of the vulgarity of having an appetite; "Oh fie—sit down to dinner without our guest—you cannot really think of such a thing; you cannot possibly mean it—what does it matter if we dine now, or an hour hence?
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback

" Beneath the glow of the Virgin Star They raised the song of the red war dance.
— from Legends of the Northwest by Hanford Lennox Gordon

Are we to emulate the faults of the great, or their virtues?
— from What's What in America by Eugene V. (Eugene Valentine) Brewster

{196} THE GNOME T HE young girls of the village were returning from the fountain with their water-jars on their heads; they were returning with song and laughter, a merry confusion of sound comparable only to the gleeful twitter of a flock of swallows when, thick as hail, they circle around the weather-vane of a belfry.
— from Romantic legends of Spain by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

And to the giver of this vote, a needy and unprincipled member of the Senate, he now had recourse.
— from Roman life in the days of Cicero by Alfred John Church