Who ventures for a moment to deny that it displays a marked and truly wonderful influence at all times, among all peoples, in all circumstances of life; even when constitutional law is suspended, and the horrors of revolutions and wars fill the air; in small things and in great, every day and every hour?
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

The Red Emperor Chu Jung, though also otherwise personified, is generally regarded as having been a legendary emperor who made his first appearance in the time of Hsien Page 238 Yuan (2698–2598 B.C.).
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

“Well, then, we will put simply, My Lord, do you remember a certain little enclosure where your life was spared?”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

But at the very time when the Americans were naturally inclined to require nothing of science but its special applications to the useful arts and the means of rendering life comfortable, learned and literary Europe was engaged in exploring the common sources of truth, and in improving at the same time all that can minister to the pleasures or satisfy the wants of man.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Governor Taft left the Philippines on or about December 23, 1903, to become Secretary of War in President Roosevelt’s Cabinet, and shortly afterward Vice-Governor Luke E. Wright succeeded to the governorship.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

I did so, and saw a large E with a small g , a P , and a large G with a small t woven into the texture of the paper.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Just as I was going to proffer my painful request, Brother Stephano made his appearance in my room, and burst into loud laughter enquiring whether I had forgotten the blow from his stick!
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

They all had wavy hair, falling over their brows, curly beards and large eyes whose glance pierced and moved one, though one could not say why.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Perhaps if he lost everything we should go away from this town.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

As for the use of it, my direction at the latter end will be sufficient, and enough for those that are studious in physic, to whet their brains upon for one year or two.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

It is principally the lower eyelid which closes, while in Mammalia the upper one is the most developed.
— from Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken

wn lashes drooped, the lovely eyes were bent on the grass, and the little hand swung the creeper nervously backward and forward.
— from Dead Man's Rock by Arthur Quiller-Couch

These both, the latter especially, were really elegant steamers for the time.
— from The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman

The resemblance between them was as remarkable as their attachment, both having dark Italian-looking countenances, of remarkable symmetry, with a singularly excitable and determined expression in their large lustrous eyes, while it was remarkable that neither could by possibility look any one steadily in the face.
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair

When, after one long expedition west 239 of the range, they readied Fort Roubidoux, it was only to discover that furs had gone very low in price.
— from The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone—Crockett—Carson by Emerson Hough

The panel is squared up 3 ⁄ 4 inch larger each way than the open space between rails and styles and a long bevel is planed on each of the four sides, leaving the thickness of the edges just great enough to fit the bottom of the grooves of rails and styles.
— from Carpentry and Woodwork by Edwin W. Foster

My Bawty is a cur I dearly like, Even while he fawn'd, she strak the poor dumb tyke: If I had fill'd a nook within her breast, She wad have shawn mair kindness to my beast.
— from The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy by Allan Ramsay