well I did not lay hands, only this pike; besides, I did not think I was committing an assault upon priests or things of the Church, which, like a Catholic and faithful Christian as I am, I respect and revere, but upon phantoms and spectres of the other world; but even so, I remember how it fared with Cid Ruy Diaz when he broke the chair of the ambassador of that king before his Holiness the Pope, who excommunicated him for the same; and yet the good Roderick of Vivar bore himself that day like a very noble and valiant knight.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

[191] A further reason for so doing will appear in the sequel; when we come to survey the general relation of Virtue to Happiness, as the result of that detailed examination of the particular virtues which forms the main subject of the present book.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

God, as to make them like unto the devils, who do nothing but hurt unto mankind,—as Homer writeth, that the plague was sent into the camp of the Greeks by Apollo, and as the poets feign a great rabble of Vejoves and mischievous gods.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

As they drew near this more important marsh, the chief aim of their expedition, Levin could not help considering how he could get rid of Vassenka and be free in his movements.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Mr. Wallace, for instance, describes a certain butterfly which presents in the same island a great range of varieties connected by intermediate links, and the extreme links of the chain closely resemble the two forms of an allied dimorphic species inhabiting another part of the Malay Archipelago.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

An entire class of susceptibilities, and a gift connected with them—of no great richness or value, but the best I had—was gone from me.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Adjacent to the men’s public urinal they perceived an icecream car round which a group of presumably Italians in heated altercation were getting rid of voluble expressions in their vivacious language in a particularly animated way, there being some little differences between the parties.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The deeper, more permanent things find expression in the wider, flatter tones, while an excess of gradations makes for prettiness, if not for the gross roundnesses of vicious modelling.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

The crania present a greater range of variation, and, if closely studied, may afford a clew to a more natural arrangement than the one which is here presented.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

Am pius extrema veniens Jacobus ab arcto Teucrigenas populos, lateque patentia regna Albionum tenuit, jamque inviolabile foedus Sceptra Caledoniis conjunxerat Anglica Scotis: Pacificusque novo felix divesque sedebat In solio, occultique doli securus & hostis: Cum ferus ignifluo regnans Acheronte tyrannus, Eumenidum pater, aethereo vagus exul Olympo, Forte per immensum terrarum erraverat orbem, Dinumerans sceleris socios, vernasque fideles, 10 Participes regni post funera moesta futuros; Hic tempestates medio ciet aere diras, Illic unanimes odium struit inter amicos, Armat & invictas in mutua viscera gentes; Regnaque olivifera vertit florentia pace, Et quoscunque videt purae virtutis amantes, Hos cupit adjicere imperio, fraudumque magister Tentat inaccessum sceleri corrumpere pectus, Insidiasque locat tacitas, cassesque latentes Tendit, ut incautos rapiat, seu Caspia Tigris 20 Insequitur trepidam deserta per avia praedam Nocte sub illuni, & somno nictantibus astris.
— from Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton by John Milton

If he has gone home it is a good riddance of very bad rubbish."
— from Captain Sam: The Boy Scouts of 1814 by George Cary Eggleston

When all was quiet again, and they found an opportunity to speak, Mr. Gryce remarked: "One very important thing has been settled by the experiment we have just made.
— from The Circular Study by Anna Katharine Green

On it, if horses had been in the habit of going as fast as they do now, a carriage might have been drawn at any given rate of velocity, till after the road had passed through two or three small villages and towns, and a space of about twenty miles, when it again got into the sand, and then plunged like an eel--which it very much resembled in some other respects--into a deep mud.
— from The Robber, A Tale. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Meanwhile, other European nations had taken their cue from Venice, and glass-houses sprang up in various parts of the Continent, particularly in France and in Bohemia; the latter, indeed, speedily became the great rival of Venice.
— from Old Glass and How to Collect it by J. Sydney Lewis

During their consolidation there is a great reduction of volume, resulting in minor faults and folds.
— from The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

[384] The eastern group comprises the Great Russians or Vielkorousses (Figs. 102 to 105 ), the Little Russians or Malorousses , otherwise called Ukrainians or Ruthenians , and the Bielorousses or White Russians .
— from The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker

They were certainly not angry as enemies are angry, but as certainly for the time being, in the sense that each was grimly resolved on victory, they had ceased to be friends.
— from The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Stewart Edward White