During the many years of its sojourn on our planet, it renews its habitation many times.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

We will proceed to enumerate other causes and motives which conspired in various cases to invest some one or more of the great men of a nation with divine honors, and adore them as veritable Gods and Saviors "come down to us in the form of men."
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Without repeating the particulars of our conversation, I shall only observe, that Don Rodrigo was as much charmed with her good sense as with her appearance, and she was no less pleased with his understanding and polite address.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

What shall I say of our military affairs; in which our ancestors have been most eminent in valor, and still more so 9 in discipline?
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

81 Neither may they imitate smiths or other artificers, or B oarsmen, or boatswains, or the like?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

But at no time throughout the conference was the real key-note of the situation so boldly struck as has been done by a few far-seeing business men, who had listened to the cry of that Christian builder: “How shall the love of God be understood by those who have been nurtured in sight only of the greed of man?”
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

I set off, overjoyed at this opportunity to see some more of the ships and seamen, and picked my way among a great crowd of people and carts and bales, for the dock was now at its busiest, until I found the tavern in question.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

It sometimes overleaps one generation and appears in the succeeding, or it will miss even the third generation, and then reappear in all its former activity and violence.
— from Grappling with the Monster; Or, the Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

"That is possible; but then her condition must be still more painful, or rather I should say must have been, for probably she is dead long before this, or if not dead, she must be a woman advanced in life; indeed, as you may observe in the account given by the traveler in the paragraph you have read, it speaks only of the descendants of those who were lost in the Grosvenor .
— from The Mission by Frederick Marryat

I was invited with my brother to dine at the Baron de Breteuil's; I there met the Baronne de Montmorency, then young and beautiful, at this moment dying; martyr bishops in watered-silk cassocks and gold crosses; young magistrates transformed into Hungarian colonels; and Rivarol, whom I saw only once in my life.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 2 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

I became intoxicated with the strange nectar which I sipped out of the eyes of the passers-by.
— from The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

In some other of the following essays (IX., X., XI., XII., XIV., XV.) I have endeavoured to show that sober and well-founded physical and literary criticism plays no less havoc with the doctrine that the canonical scriptures of the New Testament "declare incontrovertibly the actual historical truth in all records."
— from Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

“Suppose you leave some of the books—those two large ones, for instance?” suggested one of my sisters, called upon to aid me in the dilemma.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2, February 1850 by Various

She found them too absorbed in tribulation to concern themselves about her condition, and all talked together with briny tears, telling an incoherent story, out of which she at last got at these facts: A young man, to whom Miss Grosgrain had engaged herself on board the steamer that brought them from England, had so won their confidence that they were gradually led to put their entire business affairs into his hands.
— from The Home at Greylock by E. (Elizabeth) Prentiss

I have never had a companion of my own age before, and mother is so often out.”
— from Wee Wifie by Rosa Nouchette Carey