Colors, graphics and sound are highly desirable in some applications, like online games and weather forecasts.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

We cannot understand how Plato’s legislators or guardians are to be fitted for their work of statesmen by the study of the five mathematical sciences.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

They were six or seven times larger than life, of great antiquity, worn and lichen grown.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

In 1874 the inhabitants vaulted it over to keep away the normal stench, but the Hydra-head so [ 115 ] lopped off grew again, and in July 1875 swallowed up a hundred people.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

I pray Heaven day and night, As I lay me down in fright, To retake my life, or give All again for which I'd live!
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

All my little prudence in the civil wars wherein we are now engaged is employed that they may not hinder my liberty of going and coming.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In a certain passage in Plato's Laws [2] the philosopher speaks at length of [Greek: aikia] or assault , showing us clearly enough that the ancients had no notion of any feeling of honor in connection with such matters.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

'Well!' returned Scrooge, 'I have but to swallow this, and be for the rest of my days persecuted by a legion of goblins, all of my own creation.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

If my poor old grandmother now lives, she lives to suffer in utter loneliness; she lives to remember and mourn over the loss of children, the loss of grandchildren, and the loss of great-grandchildren.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

One general type was adhered to because it was the legacy of generations, and there was no reason for departing from such an excellent model.
— from Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society

Heedless of all this, sure that his appearance would dispel the clouds that hung over the marriage compact and shed the sunshine of peace and union over the two kingdoms, giddy with the hopefulness of youth, and infected with Buckingham's love of gallantry and adventure, Charles reached Madrid without a thought of peril, wild to see the infanta in his new rôle of knight-errant, and to decide for himself whether the beauty and accomplishments for which she was famed were as patent to his eye as to the voice of common report, and such as made her worthy the love of a prince of high degree.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 04 (of 15), English by Charles Morris

In the crater valley amid the wall-like mountains there is a lake of green and one of blue.
— from The Islands of Magic: Legends, Folk and Fairy Tales from the Azores by Elsie Spicer Eells

{57} IV THE LACES OF GENOA AND MILAN {60} LOUIS XIII.
— from Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Emily Leigh Lowes

"Bad business," he answered, briefly, "but at present the task before us is to cut a lot of grass and strew it about on the rocks to dry.
— from As It Was in the Beginning by Philip Verrill Mighels

[31a] Do we ask whether God thus loved the whole or only a part of the world?—Let the same Apostle answer: ‘He tasted death for every man —He gave himself a ransom for all , &c.’ Even the Gentiles, who were without the benefit of an outward revelation, were by no means destitute of an inward knowledge of the law of God, and some of them showed ‘the work of the law written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness.’
— from Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century by Caroline Frances Cornwallis

At the door is printed in large letters—"For the love of God, all good Christians are requested not to spit in this holy place."
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

The search is almost over, but the lesson, humiliating to human nature, is to be taught, that in this life—gloomy and dark, earthly and carnal—pure truth has no abiding place; and contented with a substitute, and to that second temple of eternal life, for that true Word, that divine Truth, which will teach us all that we shall ever learn of God and his emanation, the human soul.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

The qualities which have to be combated, in addition to anger and vexation, are such as ambition, timidity, curiosity, superstition, conceit, the disease of prejudice, idle love of gossip, and the making of distinctions in regard to human beings according to the merely outward marks of rank, sex, race, and so forth.
— from The Way of Initiation; or, How to Attain Knowledge of the Higher Worlds by Rudolf Steiner