Hardly knowing what she did, she picked up a little bit of stick, and held it out to the puppy; whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it; then Alice dodged behind a great thistle, to keep herself from being run over; and, the moment she appeared on the other side, the puppy made another rush at the stick, and tumbled head over heels in its hurry to get hold of it; then Alice, thinking it was very like having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle again; then the puppy began a series of short charges at the stick, running a little way forwards each time and a long way back, and barking hoarsely all the while, till at last it sat down a good way off, panting, with its [47] tongue hanging out of its mouth, and
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

Despite all my youthful conceit and bumptiousness, I found developed beneath it all a reticence and new fear of forwardness, which sprang from searching criticisms of motive and high ideals of efficiency; but contrary to my dream of racial solidarity and notwithstanding my deep desire to serve and follow and think, rather than to lead and inspire and decide, I found myself suddenly the leader of a great wing of people fighting against another and greater wing.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

It also happened in certain cases, where a person's guilt was only proved after his decease, that his body was disinterred, and carried to the stake to be burnt.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

That it aims at destroying the strong, at breaking their spirit, at exploiting their moments of weariness and debility, at converting their proud assurance into anxiety and conscience-trouble; that it knows how to poison the noblest instincts and to infect them with disease, until their strength, their will to power, turns inwards, against themselves—until the strong perish through their excessive self-contempt and self-immolation: that gruesome way of perishing, of which Pascal is the most famous example.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The reader was asked to show the positions from which the stones "may have been taken;" for it is not possible to show precisely how the gems were originally placed, because there are many such ways.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

↑ 4 Brinton, D. G., Walam Olum, p. 231; Phila., 1885.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Without pressing such arguments as absolutely certain, we must acknowledge that such a comparison affords a new ground of real weight for believing the Laws to be a genuine writing of Plato.
— from Laws by Plato

As his fancy wandered among these lofty regions in the great world of Paris, innumerable dark thoughts gathered in his heart; his ideas widened, and his conscience grew more elastic.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

With gentle words of pity she Assuaged her wild despair, E'en as a tender hand might free A curlew from the snare.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Since learning is coming to know, it involves a passage from ignorance to wisdom, from privation to fullness from defect to perfection, from non-being to being, in the Greek way of putting it.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

It seems certain, that on the death of Vannucci he succeeded to his fame, and obtained for himself some of the most important orders in Perugia, as, for instance, the great work of painting the chambers in the castle.
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi

When time hung heavily on his hands and he grew weary of poetical discussions he looked up his old school-fellow, the natural history student.
— from The Growth of a Soul by August Strindberg

And the famous Galignani library is not to be ignored, with its fascinating display of all the latest London books and the Christmas numbers of the English papers with their half-hidden pictures of Santa Claus; nor the huge Casino and Winter Garden where one pays two francs for a ticket of admission, good for the whole day, where reading-rooms and the latest telegrams of Reuter’s Agency tempt one to settle down for several hours.
— from As the Crow Flies: From Corsica to Charing Cross by Walter Phelps Dodge

- vi - Persons, Dispositions, and Manners 55 Compliments of Salutation 57 original: 59 Practice of giving Flowers to Visitors — Smoking Segars — Politeness 58 Yerba, or Tea of Paraguay 59 original: 58 Time of Meals — Siesta , or Afternoon Nap — Tertulias , or Public Dances 60 Sweetmeats much eaten 61 Etiquette, when walking in public, and in the ball-room — Dancing 62 Music — Consulado Musical School-Room 63 Philharmonics, a Musical Subscription Society 64 Mothers watch their Daughters with great strictness — Marriages take place early 65 Washerwomen on the Beach 66 Treatment of Slaves 67 Superstition of the Negroes 68 Orderly conduct of the lower orders — Beggars very annoying 69 Savings Bank — Propensity to Gaming 70 Bathing practised by all Classes — Dress 71 Females make their own Clothes 74 Travelling — Value and description of the Horses 75 Arrival of some English Horses in the Rhoda — Country Waggons 77 Sports and Amusements :—Horse-racing—Sailing—Cock-fighting—Hunting—Shooting—Fishing 78 Throwing the Lasso — Annual Fair near the Recolator 79 Provisions : Beef—Mutton—Poultry—Wines—Beer 81 to 85 Vegetables — Fruit 86 Other Animal and Vegetable Productions — Population 89 Trade and Manufactures — Exports 89 Imports—List of Vessels that arrived in 1821, 2, 3, 4 90 Shops in Buenos Ayres very numerous 92 English Manufactures very cheap 93 Currency , &c.—Notes engraved in England 95 - vii - Average of Exchange 96 Bank of Buenos Ayres—Funds — Education and Literature 97 College School—Academy in the Merced Church — Mrs. Hyne’s original: Hynes' Seminary — Many Buenos Ayreans speak and write English 98 College of Stonyhurst, near Liverpool 99 Education of Females — Variedades et Mensagero de Londres 100 Newspapers published in Buenos Ayres 101 Printing Offices — Religion 102 Contrast of the Catholic and Protestant faith — Reception of an Archbishop, who arrived in 1824 — Times of Public Worship 103 Oration-Time 104 Music of the Masses — Confession 105 Figures of the Virgin Mary kept in glass cases 106 Priesthood not illiberal — Friars 107 Suppression of the Monasteries — Convents for Nuns 111 Religious Processions: St. Rosario, and St. Nicholas 113 Feast of Corpus Christi 113 Observances during Lent—Passion Week—Holy Thursday—Good Friday—Burning of Judas 113 to 114 Procession of the Holy Ghost 117 Funeral Ceremonies 119 Masses for the repose of the Soul — Protestant Burying-Ground 120 Police , &c. 121 Assassination very frequent among the lower orders 122 Thieves ingenious 123 Boys about the Theatre-door great thieves 124 Modes of Punishment: Shooting—Public Whipping—Imprisonment—Working in the Streets, ironed 126 A great increase of crime in 1824 — First execution for forgery 126 Committals before Trial 127 Law proceedings expensive and tardy — Passports required to leave Buenos Ayres 128 Army —Punishment of flogging resorted to 130 Bands of Music — Custom to fire the Fort Guns on the 4th of July, the Anniversary of Whitelock’s Defeat 131 Government, and Public Events 133 - viii - Governor and Public Officers—Junta, or Senate 134 Æra of the Independence of Buenos Ayres—Celebration of its Anniversary—Sports of the day 135 Frequent Political Revolutions in 1820—Rodriguez appointed Governor 138 Administration of Rivadavia 139 Two persons shot for state offences, in October, 1820 141 Attempt at another Revolution—Execution of Garcia — Execution of Colonel Peralto and Urien 142 Carrera shot at Mendoza 143 San Martin embarked for England 144 A day set apart for the Funereal Rites of Gen. Belgrano — Visit of a New-Zealand Chief 145 Dinner on St. Andrew’s Day 146 Camden Packet took home the treaty with England 146 original: 147 Rejoicings for the Victory of Ayacucho — Arrival of a Brazilian Frigate 148 Opinion of Foreigners with regard to his Majesty George IV. of England 148 Mr. Canning popular in Buenos Ayres 149 A Triumphal Car paraded through the streets 152 Concluding Remarks — Great want of population, and consequent insecurity of the country — Ravages of the Indians—Four officers detained and murdered by them, in 1822—Description of the Indians 154 Very little employment for Clerks in Buenos Ayres — Mechanics and Labourers sure of employment 155 Farming not a profitable concern — Grazing farms more beneficial — Emigrants will not find the same comfort as at home 156 French faction at Buenos Ayres — Contrast between Frenchmen and Englishmen — Inducements to Emigration 158 Colonia del Sacramento 159 Appendix.
— from A Five Years' Residence in Buenos Ayres, During the years 1820 to 1825 Containing Remarks on the Country and Inhabitants; and a Visit to Colonia Del Sacramento by George Thomas Love

Thomas Shadwell, the famous playwright, who, born in 1642, lived for half-a-century, alludes in several of his dramatic works to “the great wave of passionate devotion to vices of various kinds” that seemed to roll gradually over the whole of England during the reign of Charles II., while special reference is made to the all-absorbing interest taken in the Turf while the Merry Monarch was on the throne.
— from The Horse in History by Basil Tozer

Brookville, W. O., Brown’s Brook, W. O., Cannonville, W. O., Claremont, W. O., Fenwick, W. O., Fox Harbor, W. O., Fox River, W. O., Goose River, Greenville, W. O., Gulf Shore, W. O., Halfway River, W. O., Hastings, W. O., Head of Amherst, W. O., Head of Wallace Bay, W. O., Head of Wallace Bay, North Side, W. O., Hornsey, W. O., Joggin Mines, W. O., Kirk Hill, W. O., Lakelands, W. O., Lake Road, W. O., Lawrence Factory, W. O., Leicester, W. O., Little River, W. O., Lower Cove, W. O., Maccan, W. O., Maccan Mountain, W. O., Malagash, W. O., Middleboro’, W. O., Minudie, W. O., Mount Pleasant, W. O., Nappan, W. O., North Shore, W. O., Oxford, Parrsborough , Parrsborough Shore, W. O., Port Greville, W. O., Port Philip, W. O., Pugwash , Pugwash River, W. O., River Hebert, W. O., River Philip , Rockwell Settlement, W. O., Roslin, W. O., Salem, W. O., Section 7, W. O., Shinemicas Bridge, Shulie, W. O., Six Mile Road, W. O., Southampton, W. O., Spencer’s Island, W. O., Spring Hill, W. O., Springhill Mines, W. O., Thompson’s Mills, Three Sisters, W. O., Tidnish, W. O., Victoria, W. O., Wallace , Wallace Bridge, W. O., Wallace Ridge, W. O., Wallace River, W. O., Warren, W. O., Wentworth, W. O., Westbrook, W. O., West Chester, W. O., West Chester Lake, W. O., Williamsdale, W. O., Windham Hill, W. O. DIGBY. Bear River, (West Side) , Beaver River, W. O., Beaver River Corner, Belliveaus Cove, W. O., Cedar Lake, W. O., Clare, W. O., Digby , Gilbert Cove, W. O., Havelock, W. O., Head of St. Mary’s Bay, W. O., Little River, W. O., Long Island, Marshall’s Town, W. O., Metaghan, W. O., Metaghan River, W. O., New Tusket, W. O., North Range Corner, W. O., Petite Passage, W. O., Pleasant Valley, W. O., Rossway, W. O., St. Mary’s Bay, W. O., Salmon River, W. O., Sandy Cove , Saulnierville, W. O., Smith’s Cove, W. O., Speitche’s Cove, W. O., Trout Cove, W. O., Weaver Settlement, W. O., Westport , Weymouth , Weymouth Bridge. GUYSBOROUGH.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1873 by Canada. Post Office Department

David slew Goliath with one pebble from his sling, but the giant "System," intrenched in the stoutest citadel ever constructed, and armored in gold and riven steel, will yield to no mere call for surrender.
— from Frenzied Finance, Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson

Neither, we are afraid, is there much reason to doubt that some of the most horrible of their conceptions were founded on facts which were but too real; that the cunning and the depraved contrived to turn the ecstasies and the fears of these poor wretches to their own purposes; in short, that frauds similar to those which Boccaccio has painted in his novel of the angel Gabriel, were occasionally played off upon the deluded victims.
— from Magic and Witchcraft by George Moir