A hidden soul seemed to be flowing forth from Rosamond's fingers; and so indeed it was, since souls live on in perpetual echoes, and to all fine expression there goes somewhere an originating activity, if it be only that of an interpreter.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

And as King Antigonus, first of the name, when one Hermodotus (as poets will flatter, especially princes) in some of his fustian dubbed him a god, and made the sun adopt him for his son, said to him: My lasanophore (or, in plain English, my groom of the close-stool) can give thee the lie; so Master Gaster very civilly used to send back his bigoted worshippers to his close-stool, to see, smell, taste, philosophize, and examine what kind of divinity they could pick out of his sir-reverence.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Emigrants Marcus Stone , R.A. Frontispiece The Solitary Prisoner 90 Black and White 112 The Little Wife 144 p. 3
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Liberalism, or, in plain English, the transformation of mankind into cattle.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Can’t leave one in peace even at night!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"The ancient spirit is not dead; Old times, thought I, are breathing there; Proud was I that my country bred Such strength, a dignity so fair: She begged an alms, like one in poor estate; I looked at her again, nor did my pride abate.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Baptismal custom with reference to threshold, 18 f. Baptismal font, location of, in Protestant Episcopal churches, 147 .
— from The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

264 New York as a Social Centre 288 xiii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE EMILY MARSHALL (Mrs. William Foster Otis).
— from Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century by Virginia Tatnall Peacock

Mr. George speaks lightly of the labourers who excavated the Suez Canal advancing value to the company who employed them, and yet before a single pick or spade was stuck into the sand of the Isthmus the company had laid out, in preliminary expenses and machinery, as much as six millions sterling—more than a third of the whole cost of the Canal.
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

This texte toucheth euery manne, from the hyest degree to the loweste; wherfore it is necessary to euerye manne and womanne to remembre and take good hede there-vnto, for to obserue, kepe, and folowe the 24 same; but bycause this texte of sayncte Paule is in latyn, or, in plain English, and husbandes commonely can but lyttell laten, I fere leaste they can-not vnderstande it.
— from The Book of Husbandry by Anthony Fitzherbert

The investigation has lasted one year; but the evidence, which has followed the crime step by step, has thrown the clearest light on its preparation, execution, and results.
— from The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honoré de Balzac

No talking about light will supply the lack of its presence either to the talker or the listeners."
— from Malcolm by George MacDonald

This last ordinance in particular exasperated the wealthier men.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls by Plutarch

"The barbarians ruthlessly marched over the ruins of cities and palaces, having no regard for the treasures of the classic world, and unmoved by the lessons of its past experience."
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages by John Lord