“Your mother has no longer either throne or husband; she has neither son, money nor friends; the whole world, my poor child, has abandoned your mother!”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
Same as in the Lĕkun , except that the kĕchobong is not used, but a sort of ornamental sampul or songko’ with artificial flowers, g’rak gĕmpa .
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat
He also said that it would be more profitable for the state to carry on the war against those who were building fortifications in Attica, than against the Syracusans whom it was no longer easy to subdue; besides which it was not right to squander large sums of money to no purpose by going on with the siege.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Only I trust the lines, especially the poetic bits quoted, may leave a lingering odor of spiritual heroism afterward.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
I'd bought a charger for it in Union Square on the way down, and had stopped and plugged it in at a cafe for long enough to get the battery up to four out of five bars.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Having thus announced himself to all whom it might concern, and allowed the ladies two days to discuss the merit of his transfiguration, together with the novelty of the case, he ventured to salute, at a distance, a lady and her daughter, who had been his patients at the hot well; and, although they honoured his bow with the return of a slight curtsey, they gave him not the least encouragement to make a nearer approach.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett
On many such loungers have the speckled shadows of those trees often fallen; on the like bent head, the bitten nail, the lowering eye, the lingering step, the purposeless and dreamy air, the good consuming and consumed, the life turned sour.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Hearken, my Son , (said formerly the wisest of Men) attend and keep my instructions; if a beautiful woman by her looks endeavour to intice thee, permit not thyself to be overcome by a corrupt inclination; reject the poison she offers, and follow not the paths which she directs.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse
But ere they lay Earl Einar low,— Ere this stout heart betrays its cause, Full many a heart will writhe, we know,
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
Do for me what you can.' By a letter from Sir Joshua Reynolds I was informed, that the Lord Chancellor had called on him, and acquainted him that the application had not been successful; but that his Lordship, after speaking highly in praise of Johnson, as a man who was an honour to his country, desired Sir Joshua to let him know, that on granting a mortgage of his pension, he should draw on his Lordship to the amount of five or six hundred pounds; and that his Lordship explained the meaning of the mortgage to be, that he wished the business to be conducted in such a manner, that Dr. Johnson should appear to be under the least possible obligation.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell
When I had gone about the distance of another block the head of the flood had passed far away, and with it went houses, cars, locomotives, everything that a few minutes before had made up a busy scene.
— from History of the Johnstown Flood Including all the Fearful Record; the Breaking of the South Fork Dam; the Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; the Over-Throw of Johnstown; the Massing of the Wreck at the Railroad Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Survivors and the Dead; Relief Organizations, Stupendous Charities, etc., etc., With Full Accounts also of the Destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek. by Willis Fletcher Johnson
For that reason, though Rutherford may claim a place on our shelves, he is little likely ever to be taken down from them.
— from Books Condemned to be Burnt by James Anson Farrer
Once at the top of the hill, the adventurers looked eagerly towards the east.
— from The Fur Country: Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude by Jules Verne
In two days after the Emperor's arrival all the advantages of the Austrians were gone: the French, so lately exposed to destruction, formed a concentrated mass in the presence of a scattered enemy.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe
The letch that both had taken for the same indulgence lent enchantment to the act, and their wild imaginations created an excess of joy that the smaller size of the Frankland’s clitoris, in comparison with the dimensions of our longer pricks, might not have led one to suppose possible.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous
Moore has recorded his admiration of Psyche in a lyric, of which these stanzas are not the least expressive: "Tell me the witching tale again, For never has my heart or ear Hung on so sweet, so pure a strain, [Pg 465] So pure to feel, so sweet to hear.
— from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 1 (of 2) by William Howitt
It is not surprising, therefore, that these subtle rays should have so long eluded the observation of the scientist.
— from The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century. by Edward W. (Edward Wright) Byrn
It seemed to me that, long ere this, Wardour Wentworth must have ascertained my fate, and the thought that he might be passive when my very soul was at stake, thrilled me with agony unspeakable.
— from Sea and Shore A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" by Catherine A. (Catherine Ann) Warfield
They serve to make life endurable to an American in a distant land like Japan, and they also serve to keep him patriotic by constantly reminding him of home.
— from Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Japan and China by Thomas Wallace Knox
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