Through the intervening fortnight he ran about and smiled outwardly at his inward thoughts, as if they were people meeting and nodding to him—smiled with that singularly beautiful irradiation which is seen to spread on young faces at the inception of some glorious idea, as if a supernatural lamp were held inside their transparent natures, giving rise to the flattering fancy that heaven lies about them then.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

But Mr. Creed’s accounts stick still through the perverse ignorance of Sir G. Carteret, which I cannot safely control as I would.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It generally happens however that where a mere physical impulse urges the people to insurrection, though it is often an influence of slow growth and movement, the effects are more violent and sometimes more obstinate than when they move under the blended authority of moral and physical necessity, and mix up together the rights and the wants of Man.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

His third treasure that is of so great value is his iron gloves; these he cannot do without when he lays hold of the hammer’s haft.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

He was always an idolater of some great personage who was on the shelf, and who he was convinced, because the great personage assured him of it after dinner, would sooner or later turn out the man.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

After this invocation of Setia Guni loadfuls of rice are sprinkled on the ground, and the following invocation is then raised to the spirit of the air:— Hei!
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

But I do not see any similar advantage which either individuals or states gain from the good management of a feast; and I want you to tell me what great good will be effected, supposing that this drinking ordinance is duly established.
— from Laws by Plato

In obedience to the laws, and after turning it over carefully in my mind, I offered Selina Goby a feather-bed and fifty shillings to be off the bargain.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Of the former category is Beaumont; of the latter, the alabaster bust of Drayton whose body lies under the north wall of the nave, and the monument to Jonson, who, having no one rich enough to "lay out funeral charges upon him," stands, in accordance with his own desire, on his "eighteen inches of square ground" under a paving-stone in the north aisle of the nave,—and the figure of their associate, Shakespeare, who, [183] though there was much talk of transporting his body from Stratford in the year of his death and Beaumont's, did not, even in "preposterous" effigy, join his compeers of the Poets' Corner till more than a century had elapsed.
— from Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher by Charles Mills Gayley

But the reaper isn’t here, and so that is out of the question, and there is nothing to be done but to beat it out,” said Grace, her nimble mind taking in the best way to meet the danger and overcome it.
— from The Youngest Sister: A Tale of Manitoba by Bessie Marchant

This unparalleled observation is of such great importance that I quote it in part, as follows: "They [the birds] flew in a great scattered, wide-spread host, never in clusters, each bird advancing in a somewhat zigzag manner….
— from A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds by Lowery, George H., Jr.

[23] who must necessarily be informed of so great a tumult?
— from The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni

Peoples and governments will not in the future assume that because they have the brute power to enforce momentarily dominant ideas, it is best to do so without thoughtful conference with the ideas of smaller groups and individuals.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

J. G. Campbell, “Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland” (Glasgow, 1902), 232.
— from Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

Fifteen is one stroke given at the beginning of every game of a set.
— from Home Amusements by M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) Sherwood

Thus he anticipated more powerful mechanisms of the like kind, such as the Jacobin Club; and he himself, under encouraging circumstances, might have wielded an immense power as the creator and occult, inspiring influence of some great political society.
— from Benjamin Franklin by John Torrey Morse

The odors of the cooking brought new life into the otherwise silent interior of Sim Gage's cabin.
— from The Sagebrusher: A Story of the West by Emerson Hough