He must be close-shaved and have his hair cut and his nails in good order (not too polished).
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Let us rather stand up and pray in our cave to God, to let us know whether this counsel is good or not." 21 Then Adam rose up in prayer and said, "O God, you know that we transgressed against you, and from the moment we transgressed, we were stripped of our bright nature; and our body became brutish, requiring food and drink; and with animal desires.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

It is given out not for a literal fact, existing in particular moments or persons, but for an imaginative expression of what nature and life have impressed on the speaker.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The younger was Jaṭáyus, thou The elder whom I gaze on now.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

It gave out no light, properly so called, but a dull and sullen glow without reflection, as if all its rays were polarized.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

It is going on now.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

it is genial or natural Rhyweled, v. to foresee Rhywfaint, n. some quantity Rhywfan, Rhywle, adv.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Why do you ask me whether I believe in God?” “Oh, no particular reason.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And to the boot of all that, Gilliewhackit said that, be the evidence what it liked, if he had the luck to be on Donald's inquest, he would bring him in guilty of nothing whatever, unless it were wilful arson or murder under trust.'
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since — Volume 1 by Walter Scott

Some hours were spent by the king, his leaders, and his captains in going about among the troops seeing that all the contingents had arrived well armed and in good order, notifying to the leaders of each the position they should take up in the morning, and doing all in their power to animate and encourage the soldiers.
— from The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

In gravitational movement ( b ) The system exhibits: High osmotic pressur Low osmotic pressure No osmotic pressure Transparency "Tyndall phenomenon" Is generally opaque No gel-formation Forms gels No gel-formation
— from The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher

For the first time in his life he felt the aweful and inexorable grip of Necessity; and his heart screamed.
— from The Gentleman: A Romance of the Sea by Alfred Ollivant

Map Showing Former Location of Important Indian Groups of North America, North of Mexico: South.
— from American Indians by Frederick Starr

[283] In Imagination and Fancy , Hunt continues: “Not Milton himself is more learned in Grecisms, or nicer in entomological propriety; and nobody, throughout, has a style so Orphic and primeval.”
— from Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller

Indeed, taking the whole evidence together, it appears well settled by these authorities, that the screw is equal to the side-wheel only in smooth water, and that, as a consequence of this distinction, it is not equal to it in general ocean navigation.
— from Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post by Thomas Rainey

he thought; “if ever there was a pesky, wuthless thing to trade off, twould be a great, gormin' flag like that!”) “Can I get out now, please?” asked Rebecca.
— from New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Whether he has made it good or not is still uncertain; but he has now been gone two days, and I have great hopes.
— from Ian Hamilton's March by Winston Churchill

Although this character is generally overdrawn, no one familiar with city life pretends to doubt his existence.
— from Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge