“‘The monument of Leonardo da Vinci, facing the gallery of Victor Emmanuel at Milan.’
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"It does not matter that Anna should die in childbirth, but it does matter that all these Annas, Mavras, Pelagueyas, from dawn to sunset should be grinding away, ill from overwork, all their lives worried about their starving sickly children; all their lives they are afraid of death and disease, and have to be looking after themselves; they fade in youth, grow old very early, and die in filth and dirt; their children as they grow up go the same way and hundreds of years slip by and millions of people live worse than animals—in constant dread of never having a crust to eat; but the horror of their position is that they have no time to think of their souls, no time to remember that they are made in the likeness of God; hunger, cold, animal fear, incessant work, like drifts of snow block all the ways to spiritual activity, to the very thing that distinguishes man from the animals, and is the only thing indeed that makes life worth living.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Then will you determine for them what are voluntary and what are involuntary crimes, and shall we make the punishments greater of voluntary errors and crimes and less for the involuntary?
— from Laws by Plato

She found out that the American troops were on the march from Fort George, down at the mouth of the river, with the object of cutting off a little garrison of volunteers entrenched at a place called Beaver Dam.
— from Down the River to the Sea by Agnes Maule Machar

He it was that played the principal part in gaining over Von Eickstedt, and laid all the plans for inducing Maria Juliana to place herself at the head of the conspiracy.
— from Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 2 (of 3) Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H. M. George III. of England by Wraxall, Lascelles, Sir

He met the glance of violet eyes, and understood something of Doctor McMurdoch’s helplessness.
— from Fire-Tongue by Sax Rohmer

VANILLA EXTRACTS The best grades of vanilla extract are made by treating vanilla beans with 50 per cent alcohol.
— from Detection of the Common Food Adulterants by Edwin M. Bruce

I call this place Whitman Land, because in many ways it is typical of my poet,—an amphitheatre of precipitous rock, slightly veiled with a delicate growth of verdure, enclosing a few acres of prairie-like land, once the site of an ancient lake, now a garden of unknown depth and fertility.
— from Whitman: A Study by John Burroughs

He has suffered not a little from the government of Victor Emanuel, and is looked on as a confessor like those of the earlier ages of the church.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

In the Rosicrucian jewels the sardonyx appears as the gem of victorious ecstasy and rapture which flow from the eternal font of delight, banishing grief and woe.
— from The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by Isidore Kozminsky

On the 10th of October the people of the Two Sicilies voted to accept the government of Victor Emmanuel; and the king entered Naples, November 7, in all the pomp of sovereignty.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders by John Lord