—‘Father Patrick Noan while bathing in the harbour at Carns (about three miles north-west of Grange) was drowned.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

To amuse herself, she began to search the contents of all the keeping-places in the house, and came at last to the chest containing the peat ember.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

For, whilst men talk and dispute of infinite space or duration, as if they had as complete and positive ideas of them as they have of the names they use for them, or as they have of a yard, or an hour, or any other determinate quantity; it is no wonder if the incomprehensible nature of the thing they discourse of, or reason about, leads them into perplexities and contradictions, and their minds be overlaid by an object too large and mighty to be surveyed and managed by them.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

480 ).—There are many who shrink from undertaking a large piece of work because it becomes inconvenient to handle and carry about.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

It is for me, who regard no more the one thing than the other, and who, as much as in me lies, am provident of the public interest, to have a care as to what you leave behind you.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The procession drew up before every farmyard; the two guards dismounted, shut the clown into the house, and claimed a contribution from the housewife to buy soap with which to wash the clown’s beard.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Mr. Moss's tably-dy-hoty was served at the appointed hour of half-past five, when such of the gentlemen lodging in the house as could afford to pay for the banquet came and partook of it in the splendid front parlour before described, and with which Mr. Crawley's temporary lodging communicated, when Miss M. (Miss Hem, as her papa called her) appeared without the curl-papers of the morning, and Mrs. Hem did the honours of a prime boiled leg of mutton and turnips, of which the Colonel ate with a very faint appetite.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

ATHENIAN: Would not all implements have then perished and every other excellent invention of political or any other sort of wisdom have utterly disappeared? CLEINIAS: Why, yes, my friend; and if things had always continued as they are at present ordered, how could any discovery have ever been made even in the least particular?
— from Laws by Plato

When Asbjorn heard this he suddenly drew his sword, rushed into the hall, and cut at Thorer.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

He next read the law with reference to conspiracy and proceeded: “The proof in this case, with the exception of Gilmer’s testimony, showed and shows only that the State has a case within those sections which I have last read to you, and no other, if they have a case against them at all.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

And the first time I saw her I thought her as charming and gentle as she is personally attractive.
— from Lettice by Mrs. Molesworth

But the ugly and incredible thing has actually come about and we are without adequate federal laws to deal with it.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

That is right; that is the way, if they have any complaint, any transfers brought in to him, he has a list.
— from Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

One learned professor, the very apex of the triangle of the Athenian science,—who, in his time, has tested hell, as it were—has, in the ardour of his inquiries after and into things hot and cold, alternately deputed his ————————“delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of the thick-ribb’d ice,”— was reported to me, (for I did not then see him,) not exactly [254] “To be imprisoned in the viewless wind, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world,” but to have made one of the most singular experiments upon the said winds themselves, that ever entered into a philosophic head.
— from The Modern Athens A dissection and demonstration of men and things in the Scotch Capital. by Robert Mudie

“Make that sort of American woman realize that she is more needed in the home and can accomplish more with that as her goal than in any other place in 170 the world.
— from The Gorgeous Girl by Nalbro Bartley

What we call PATRIOTISM, in the high and catholic acceptation of the word, was little if at all understood in days when passion, pride, and interest were motives little softened by reflection and education, and softened still less by the fusion of classes that characterized the small States of old, and marks the civilization of a modern age.
— from The Last of the Barons — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

A pair of crows and a pair of red-tailed hawks are nesting in the woodlot; there are at least three families of chipmunks in as many of my stone piles; a fine old tree toad (his fourth season now) sleeps on the porch under the climbing rose; a hornet’s nest hangs in a corner of the eaves; a small colony of swifts thunder in the chimney; swallows twitter in the hayloft; a chipmunk and a half-tame gray squirrel feed in the barn; and—to bring an end to this bare beginning—under the roof of the pig-pen dwell this pair of phœbes.
— from The Lay of the Land by Dallas Lore Sharp