The first part of the trip carried us through a great region which was an endless garden—miles and miles of the beautiful flower from whose juices comes the opium, and at Muzaffurpore we were in the midst of the indigo culture; thence by a branch road to the Ganges at a point near Dinapore, and by a train which would have missed the connection by a week but for the thoughtfulness of some British officers who were along, and who knew the ways of trains that are run by natives without white supervision.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Steelkilt calculated his time, and found that his next trick at the helm would come round at two o’clock, in the morning of the third day from that in which he had been betrayed.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The two girded themselves and went into the middle of the ring.
— from The Iliad by Homer

In the midst of a delightful conversation that seemed to approach a crisis, Lady St Julians was sure to advance, and interfere with some affectionate appeal to Lady Joan, whom she called her “dear child” and “sweetest love,” while she did not deign even to notice the unhappy cavalier whom she had thus as it were unhorsed.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

In the mud of your contempt lay the statue: but it is just its law, that out of contempt, its life and living beauty grow again!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It was Benjy, too, who saddled Tom's first pony, and instructed him in the mysteries of horsemanship, teaching him to throw his weight back and keep his hand low, and who stood chuckling outside the door of the girls' school when Tom rode his little Shetland into the cottage and round the table, where the old dame and her pupils were seated at their work.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Education, in its broadest sense, is the means of this social continuity of life.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

At times those who desired instruction from an adept in the sacred lore of the tribe met him by appointment in the âsĭ, where they sat up all night talking, with only the light of a small fire burning in the middle of the floor.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

They who know that the whole land-tax of England, at 4 s. in the pound, raises but two millions, will not easily apprehend that any such sums as the author has conjured up can be raised even in the most opulent nations.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Then having shifted the lituus into his left hand, placing his right hand on the head of Numa, he prayed in this manner: "O father Jupiter, if it is thy will that this Numa Pompilius, whose head I hold, should be king of Rome, I beseech thee to give sure and evident signs of it within those bounds which I have marked."
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The earliest history of Japan is so wrapped in the mists of legend and tradition that only here and there do we get glimpses of heroic figures,—leaders in those early days.
— from Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition by Alice Mabel Bacon

In the midst of a tremendous passage there came a knock at the door.
— from Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life, Vol. I. by Susanna Moodie

Is it to be tamely borne by kings who love their subjects, or by subjects who love their kings, that this monarch, in the midst of these gracious acts, was insolently and cruelly torn from his palace by a gang of traitors and assassins, and kept in close prison to this very hour, whilst his royal name and sacred character were used for the total ruin of those whom the laws had appointed him to protect?
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

But in the month of July an accident occurred; one of the powder-magazines blew up, killing two men, one of whom died in Emmet's arms.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England by Georg Brandes

The extreme limit of the classical period of Latin literature is the middle of the second century.
— from Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle

When she found Miss Mancel designed to change her abode, she told her that at an honest farmer's near her house she might [Pg 87] be accommodated, but that as some little alterations would be requisite to make the place fit for her, she, in the most obliging manner, desired her company till the apartment was ready; which would give her opportunity to see such things were done to it as would be most convenient and agreeable.
— from A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue by Sarah Scott

In the majority of discussions of the labor question the non-union laborer is figured as the independent working man who is asserting his right to labor when and how he prefers against the tyranny of the labor union.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

"If the Revolution should be terminated in the manner of which I have spoken, then it will be important that the king shall acquire, in a solid manner, the confidence and consideration which alone can give a real strength to the royal authority.
— from The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge

The difficulty of the subject seems to lie in the mode of ascertaining what that value is.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

I hope so, because I have put it plainly enough to make you conscious of your personal responsibility in the matter of being able to retain your husband’s love.
— from Your Affectionate Godmother by Elinor Glyn