For just as in mines the gold is conspicuous even though mixed up with earth, so nature manifests plainly love to offspring even in instances of faulty habits and affections.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Oh, how could I not be ardent for Eternity and for the marriage-ring of rings—the ring of the return? Never yet have I found the woman by whom I should like to have children, unless it be this woman whom I love: for I love thee, O Eternity!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

From our survey of the religious position occupied by the king in rude societies we may infer that the claim to divine and supernatural powers put forward by the monarchs of great historical empires like those of Egypt, Mexico, and Peru, was not the simple outcome of inflated vanity or the empty expression of a grovelling adulation; it was merely a survival and extension of the old savage apotheosis of living kings.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

But picture to yourself, when I opened your little emerald book, a pearl lay therein, of exactly the same kind as those which used to fall from my daughter's eyes; and then you can also imagine how the sight of it stirred my heart.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

When, instead either of a certain portion of the produce of land, or of the price of a certain portion, a certain sum of money is to be paid in full compensation for all tax or tythe; the tax becomes, in this case, exactly of the same nature with the land tax of England.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I must work in my craft, Sir Vavasour, but I love the old English blood, and have it in my veins.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

FOR I LOVE THEE, O ETERNITY!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In Latin the one expression habitô covers all three of these expressions.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

[528] , most Teleostei acquire at an early stage of their development heterocercal caudal fins, like those of Elasmobranchii and the Chondrostean Ganoids; but in the course of their further growth the dorsal lobe partly atrophies, and partly disappears as such, owing to the great prominence acquired by the ventral lobe.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

Not only are these forms phonetically impossible, but the theory fails to explain the transitions to the forms actually existing in real languages, and everything is much easier if we assume forms like [ʌm, ʌn] with some vowel like that of E. un- .
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen

Their mutual love, having blossomed after a long time of expectation, was so great, owing to the strength of their passion, that their hearts continually resembled those of the sorrowing Chakravákas, when the night, during which they are separated, comes to an end.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

We repaired immediately to the house of Mr Leith, the only Englishman of any credit who was resident at this place; he received us with great politeness, and engaged us to dinner:
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

We crossed the Toglang Pass, at a height of 18,150 feet, with less suffering from ladug than on either the Digar or Kharzong Passes.
— from Among the Tibetans by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

I have repeatedly seen them at Churchill as tame as sheep, and even more so; for they would follow their keeper any distance from home, and at his call return with him without the least trouble, or ever offering to deviate from the path.
— from Pioneers in Canada by Harry Johnston

Lucille talked of everything that might interest David.
— from Dominie Dean: A Novel by Ellis Parker Butler

The pump was running well, for he could hear the steady splash of water falling into the creek, and once more a little thrill of exultation ran through him.
— from For Jacinta by Harold Bindloss

Interspersed among them were the advocates of a presidential or congressional system like that of the United States, the upholders of a parliamentary regime like that of European nations, and the supporters of methods of government of a more experimental kind.
— from The Hispanic Nations of the New World: A Chronicle of Our Southern Neighbors by William R. (William Robert) Shepherd