Naturally isolated by its gigantic mountain barrier in the north, the Indian peninsula has ever since the Aryan invasion formed a world apart, over which a unique form of Aryan civilisation rapidly spread, and has ever since prevailed.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

In this case the representative character of the person is generally marked by dressing him or her in leaves or flowers; sometimes, too, it is indicated by the name he or she bears.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

But I generally make out to drive over there round about New Year's, and once in the summer.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

" From a letter to her aunt, Madame de Renaudin, at this time, quoted by Aubenas, we can see her real feelings: "I am fêted wherever I go; all the princes of Italy give me fêtes, even the Grand Duke of Tuscany, brother of the Emperor.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

“Here’s a cigar, and the doctor has a prescription containing hot water and a lemon, which is good medicine on a night like this.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

It is great morning; and the hour prefix’d For her delivery to this valiant Greek Comes fast upon.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

; how it gives men their most char
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

It gives me the highest opinion of her.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

“At such a time, so dark, so dreary, for human sympathy my very spirit sighed; but instead thereof, “‘My dearest friend, my counsellor, my comforter and guide—My joy in grief, my second bliss in joy,’ came to my side.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Church of Rome, which has ever travestied in gross material forms the most spiritual conceptions of God, sought to prove herself the true Church by achieving a oneness of her own.
— from Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer

In the spring of 1799, he again defeated Jourdan in Suabia, as he had done two years before in Franconia; but in Switzerland he met with an abler adversary in General Massena; still, I am inclined to think that he displayed there more real talents than anywhere else; and that this part of his campaign of 1799 was the most interesting, in a military point of view.
— from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete by Lewis Goldsmith

Soft to my ear there comes a music-flow; In gleesome murmur glides the waterfall; To zephyr's kiss the flowers are bending low; Through life goes joy, exchanging joy with all.
— from The Poems of Schiller — Third period by Friedrich Schiller

"I guess men are all alike in that," she said: "they like a clutter—they think it's having things handy.
— from Under Rocking Skies by L. Frank (Lewis Frank) Tooker

This was a sore trial to the old priest, Father Thomas, who had grown grey there; but he had no art in gathering money, which he asked for in a shamefaced way; and the vicarage was a poor one, hardly enough for the old man's needs.
— from Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset by Arthur Christopher Benson

He stopped his wheelbarrow by the steps and we sat down together on the edge of the stoop as he added: "I got mad—they kep' pickin' on me so—I'm sorry, but I couldn't help it.
— from The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Time of Silas Wright by Irving Bacheller

The performance lasts four hours; she receives visits from her cavaliers, the while I grit my teeth with rage.
— from Venus in Furs by Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von

(The foregoing facts are taken from a series of papers describing personal investigations in Germany made by Dr. F. Bierhoff, of New York, "Police Methods for the Sanitary Control of Prostitution," New York Medical Journal , August, 1907.)
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

This indignity gave me great offence, as I never expected anything of the kind.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various