This is what the myth aims to teach us when it says that the Mother of the Gods exhorted Attis not to leave her or to love another.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

We may add that the use of the couvre-chef did not continue beyond the middle of the fourteenth century, at which time women adopted the custom of wearing any kind of head-dress they chose, the hair being kept back by a silken net, or crépine , attached either to a frontlet, or to a metal fillet, or confined by a veil of very light material, called a mollequin ( Fig. 420 ).
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Instructions had been given to Menidas and the troops under him to wheel round and attack the enemy in flank, if they should ride round their wing.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

When life becomes rational it continues to be mechanical and to take up room and energy in the natural world.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

“Well, what matters all that to us?” said D’Artagnan.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

They needed in the loneliness and the spiritual wilderness of their lives an ever living enemy, and a universally known enemy through whose conquest they might appear to the unsanctified as utterly incomprehensible and half unnatural beings.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He stands for several minutes tearing up his manuscripts and throwing them under the table, then unlocks the door on the right and goes out.
— from The Sea-Gull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For men and things, the universe, are born and nourished by Heaven, and the 'Way,' the 'ri,' that is in all, is the 'Way,' the 'ri' of Heaven.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Tim staid with him till the last moment, and then took up his job at the Golden Brier, apparently as depressed by the continued barrenness of their mutual labors as Philip was himself.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

A husband denotes several different sorts of magistracy, according to the usages and customs of different climates and countries.
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

Instead, rules must be made and tested through use; precedents must be established and certain fundamental principles worked out and made a basis for future government.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. by Various

I have heard this language from men who knew as well as myself that the best and most orthodox divines have in effect disclaimed the doctrine, inasmuch as they confess it cannot be extended to the words of the sacred writers, or the particular import—that therefore the doctrine does not mean all that the usual wording of it expresses, though what it does mean, and why they continue to sanction this hyperbolical wording, I have sought to learn from them in vain.
— from Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Herzen died; he left two children, whom Fräulein von Meysenbug adopted, thus taking upon herself the anxiety of a double [Pg 184] maternity.
— from The life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Daniel Halévy

At Paris, Adams had failed singularly as a negotiator,—lending a ready ear to Lee, hardly attempting to disguise his jealousy of Franklin, and enforcing his own opinions in a manner equally offensive to the personal feelings of the Minister and the traditional usages of the Court.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Apart from the officers commanding it, the number of men that went to the making of a gang varied from two to twenty or more according to the urgency of the occasion that c
— from The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson

For the basest of motives girls are tricked into vows which may or may not prove to be valid marriages according to the uncertain interpretation of the words or acts of betrothal sworn to in court.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

For the sheets cut two pieces of muslin or lawn large enough to cover the mattress and to turn under.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Needlecraft by Effie Archer Archer

After making my acknowledgments to the unknown and half-seen lady, I venture to ask the inevitable question, “To whom have I the honor of speaking?”
— from The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins