“At home let a man be cheerful, And toward a guest liberal; Of wise conduct he should be, Of good memory and ready speech; If much knowledge he desires, He must often talk on what is good.”
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

According to the terms of this decree--which is still preserved among the archives of Frankfort-on-the-Main, and which is known as the bulle d'or , or golden bull, from the fact of its bearing a seal of pure gold--on the death of an emperor, the Archbishop of Mayence summoned, for an appointed day, the Prince Electors of the Empire, who, during the whole course of the Middle Ages, remained seven in number, "in honour," says the bull, "of the seven candlesticks mentioned in the Apocalypse."
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Nevertheless, my mother and Rosalie succeeded in founding good hopes for my future career upon the bare fact of my being able to conduct an orchestra.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Behold the mansion reared by dedal Jack See the malt stored in many a refluent sack, In the proud cirque of Jackjohn’s bivouac.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

That by which they are said to get the most money, is, when young gentlewomen of good families and reputation have happened to be with child before marriage, a round sum is often bestowed among the gypsies, for some one mort to take the child; and as that is never heard of more by the true mother and family, so the disgrace is kept concealed from the world; and, if the child lives, it never knows its parents.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

But the ministers, whose office it was to obtain every information, did not make a rigid scrutiny into the title-deeds of the various estates previous to advancing the claims of the crown.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

So alarming did the state of my finances become, that I soon realized that I must either leave the metropolis and rusticate somewhere in the country, or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Ten minutes are really sufficient, if one has the instinct for form.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

And do they move and rest, some in one place, some in more?
— from Laws by Plato

Maria Victorovna, my late wife, lives abroad, and her father is making a railway somewhere in the Eastern provinces and buying land there.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Don't you see, old chap, that [Pg 103] two of us might make a reasonable show if violence is attempted?
— from The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective by Louis Tracy

Mix the meat and rice, stir into them the white sauce, onion, and celery salt, and salt and pepper to taste.
— from Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

It is found in fable and allegory, in myth and revealed Scriptures, in legend and tradition.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

He detects their influence in things musical, and writes thus: In Music a retrogressive step in which there is much hope, has been taken.
— from Charles Dickens and Music by James T. (James Thomas) Lightwood

Therefore, some religious customs, I had to participate in as a boy, made a rather special impression upon me.
— from My Life and My Efforts by Karl May

Their condition and morale are rather superior, in places very perceptibly so, to those of the majority of the Alaska Indians.
— from Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička

They hastily bridled, mounted, and rode southwesterly in the direction we were bound, while turning in their saddles and watching us until they were beyond range of our guns.
— from On a Donkey's Hurricane Deck A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours, Starting Without a Dollar and Earning My Way by R. Pitcher (Robert Pitcher) Woodward

It is, possibly, a representation of Mercury, and resembles somewhat in attitude the bronze statue found at Huis, in the south of France, and known as the Payne Knight Mercury.
— from Finger-Ring Lore: Historical, Legendary, Anecdotal by Jones, William, F.S.A.

The plan for making a canal between the Mediterranean and Red seas is very old, and has received a great deal of attention from ancient times to the present.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox