In due order the proper sort of witnesses will substantiate this position, but before coming to their testimony we may now say that there are men and women in Dublin, in other parts of Ireland, in Scotland, in the Isle of Man, and in Brythonic lands too, whom all the world knows as educated leaders in their respective fields of activity, who not only declare their belief that fairies were, but that fairies are; and some of these men and women say that they have the power to see fairies as real spiritual beings.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Thou who didst bless Isaac and Rebecca and their descendants, according to Thy Holy Covenant; bless Thy servants, Konstantin and Ekaterina, leading them in the path of all good works.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

True enjoyment lies in knowledge, and eternal life provides innumerable and inexhaustible sources of knowledge, and in that sense it has been said: 'In My Father's house there are many mansions.'"
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He waited till all in the chapel had knelt and every least noise was still.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

She had gone away to a quiet spot among the rocks to get over her first grief alone, but found it very hard to check her tears, as memory brought back the past, tenderly recalling every kind act, every loving word, and familiar scene.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

L.G. Ἀποκαρᾱδοκία, ας, ἡ, ( ἀπό & καραδοκέω, to watch with the head stretched out, to keep an eager lookout; fr. κάρα , the head, and δοκεύω to watch) earnest expectation, hope, Ro. 8.19.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil substance; and yet God, in that unapocryphal vision, said without exception, RISE, PETER, KILL AND EAT, leaving the choice to each man's discretion.
— from Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton

After the battle, King Arthur entered Lorraine, Brabant, and Flanders, and thence, subduing all the countries as he went, passed into Germany, and so beyond the mountains into Lombardy and Tuscany.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

For our wine, you know well it is the subject of an old emulation betwixt France and Burgundy, which we will presently reconcile; for I will drink to you in Burgundy, and you, Sir Count, shall pledge me in Champagne.—Here, Oliver, let me have a cup of Vin d'Auxerre;” and he hummed gaily a song then well known, “Auxerre est le boisson des Rois.”
— from Quentin Durward by Walter Scott

— a , the giant; b , a frog that the giant uses for an arrow point; c , a large bird that the giant keeps in his court; d , another bird; e , an ornament [480] over the door leading into the court; f , an ornament over a door; g , part of court ornamented with down; h , part of court ornamented with red down; i , a bear; j , a deer; k , an elk; l , a buffalo; m , n , incense-offering; o , a rattle of deer’s claws, used when singing; p , a long flute, or whistle; q , r , s , t , are meteors that the giant sends out for his defense, or to protect him from invasion; u , v , w , x , the giant surrounded with lightnings, with which he kills all kinds of animals that molest him; y , red down in small bunches fastened to the railing of the court; z , the same.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

"It does look as if we had killed about everything loose in the whole Delta during the last month or so."
— from The Law of the Land Of Miss Lady, Whom It Involved in Mystery, and of John Eddring, Gentleman of the South, Who Read Its Deeper Meaning: A Novel by Emerson Hough

On the Monday morning, when Charlie was to go away to meet the Irville carrier on the road, we were all up, and I walked by myself from the manse into the clachan to bid him farewell, and I met him just coming from his mother’s door, as blithe as a bee, in his sailor’s dress, with a stick, and a bundle tied in a Barcelona silk handkerchief hanging o’er his shoulder, and his two little brothers were with him, and his sisters, Kate and Effie, looking out from the door all begreeten; but his mother was in the house, praying to the Lord to protect her orphan, as she afterwards told me.
— from The Annals of the Parish Or, the Chronicle of Dalmailing During the Ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder by John Galt

Forgive me if I do you wrong, but was it by any chance that you might play the spy upon this girl?" "Shadbolt asked me to keep an eye liftin' for her."
— from Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Educationally, these schools are of little value, as their training is both antiquated in kind and extremely limited in quantity.
— from India's Problem, Krishna or Christ by John P. (John Peter) Jones

What do I know about eternal life!”
— from The Madman and the Pirate by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The proportion of women, as well as children, appears larger than in other places; and they wear a greater amplitude of apparel than those of their sex on the windward coast, covering their persons from the waist to the knee, and even lower.
— from Journal of an African Cruiser Comprising Sketches of the Canaries, the Cape De Verds, Liberia, Madeira, Sierra Leone, and Other Places of Interest on the West Coast of Africa by Horatio Bridge

Three Sisters—Wards of Ko-Ko: YUM-YUM PITTI-SING PEEP-BO KATISHA (an elderly Lady, in love with Nanki-Poo).
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan