The country is now submerged, and presents the appearance of a sea of turbid water, from which the towns and villages, built on higher ground, rise like islands.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The light that lights them is not steady and polar, but mutable and shifting: waxing, and again waning.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

1508 Astura still retains its ancient name, Palmaria is the present Palmarola, Sinonia is now Senone, and Pontiæ is the modern Isola di Ponza.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

But how great was his apprehension, when he farther understood, that this force acting upon the very vertex of the head, not only injured the brain itself, or cerebrum,—but that it necessarily squeezed and propelled the cerebrum towards the cerebellum, which was the immediate seat of the understanding!—Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

, 102-103 , 493-494 ; Sentiment, 26-28 , 77 ; Sentiments, ( a ) difficulties of admitting or rejecting them as motives, 365-367 [523] , ( b ) theory of their derivation from experiences of pleasure and pain, 461 , 462 ; and Quasi-moral Sentiments, 28 , 173 , 174 ; Motive, 77 , 204 seq. , 223 ; Motive, varying forms of:—( a ) Reverence for Authority, ( b ) Religious Sentiment, ( c ) Self-respect, ( d ) sentiment of Freedom, ( e ) Admiration or Aspiration, 39-40 ; instincts and crude Utilitarian reasonings—discrepancy between, 466 , 467 ; Intuitions, 211-216 passim ; Intuitions, existence of, 211 , 212 , 337 ; Intuitions, connexion between ( a ) Existence and Origin of, 211 , 212 , ( b ) Origin and Validity of, 34 note 1, 212-213 , 212 note 2, 214 ; Intuitions, Particular and General, 99-102 , 214-216 ; Rules, imperative and indicative forms of, 101 note 1; Rules and Axioms, importance of, 229 ; Axioms, abstract but significant, 379-384 , 505 ; Axioms, Kant’s view of, 385-386 , 386 notes 1 and 2; Maxims, 337-361 passim ; Maxims which are , and which are not , directly self-evident, distinction between, 383 ; Responsibility, 59-60 ; Obligation, 217 ; and non-moral excellence distinguished, 426 , 427 ‘Moral’ (in narrower sense) and ‘Prudential’ distinguished, 25-26 Moral Courage, 333 note 3 Moral Philosophy, some problems of modern, 374 Morality—‘inductive’ and ‘intuitive,’ double ambiguity of antithesis between, 97-99 ; a priori and a posteriori (or inductive and intuitive), 97 ; and growth of Sympathy, 455-456 , 455 note 1 Morality of Common Sense (Intuitionism), 85 , 102 , 229 , 263 Note, 337-361 passim ; and Positive Morality, 215 ; and Egoism, 498-499 (cf. Happiness and Duty ); development of, not perfectly Utilitarian, 455-456 ; axiomatic character of its maxims questioned, 338 , 342 , 343 ; furnishes valuable practical rules but not ultimate axioms, 360 , 361 ; and Utilitarianism, 361 note 1, 423-457 passim , 461 , 498 , 499 ; first principles of, as “middle axioms” of Utilitarianism, 461 ; Mill’s view of, 461 note 1; not to be accepted by Utilitarianism without modification, 461 seq.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

“I never saw a prettier young woman in my life,” said the husband.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

In this Russian custom the passage of the image through the fire, if it is not simply a purification, may possibly be a sun-charm; the killing of the god is a separate act, and the mode of killing him—by drowning—is probably a rain-charm.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

‘Will it not slap and pinch the envious dowager, that dares to reflect upon its own delicious?’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I soon pointed out to him the illustrious career in the midst of which he is now seen, and predicted that, if he laid down to himself rigid rules for the choice of causes, and never became the defender of anything but virtue and justice, his genius, elevated by this sublime sentiment, would be equal to that of the greatest orators.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“England is not such a place
— from The Heart of England by Edward Thomas

Thence home, W. Hewer with me, and then out with my own coach to the Duke of York's play-house, and there saw "The Impertinents," a play which pleases me well still; but it is with great trouble that I now see a play, because of my eyes, the light of the candles making it very troublesome to me.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1669 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

Once we struggled to put our all in ten words—simple, at least, if not sensuous and passionate.
— from The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett

I never saw a prouder or more dignified gesture than that of the Marquis of Lorne when he motioned to the conductor of the orchestra.
— from My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt

Shortsighted, S. Su. G. naarsynt , id. NES, s. A promontory; ness , S. Doug.
— from An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals by John Jamieson

"I never supposed a party where one didn't know a soul could be so nice.
— from Everybody's Lonesome: A True Fairy Story by Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth) Laughlin

It is, moreover, significant that the priest, Ghora [=A]ngirasà, is named specially as priest of the sun-god elsewhere (K[=a]ush.
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

When you have put in new separators, and put the battery on charge, the specific gravity of the electrolyte may go down at first, instead of rising.
— from The Automobile Storage Battery: Its Care And Repair by Otto A. Witte