The following narrative, quoted by Mr. Herbert Spencer, presents a striking example of what some Hindoos had been doing before the missionary cut down the Tree at Travancore:— ‘A Nepaul king, Rum Bahâdur, whose beautiful queen, finding her lovely face had been disfigured by smallpox, poisoned herself, cursed his kingdom, her doctors, and the gods of Nepaul, vowing vengeance on all.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The nuns, who appeared only at meals, cast down their eyes, and said nothing.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

[36-7] ¡Allí hicimos prisionero a un rey de Francia, cuya espada ha estado en Madrid cerca de tres siglos, hasta que nos la robó 20 hace tres meses ese hijo de un posadero que viene a vuestra cabeza, y a quien llaman Murat!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Thus to send a fleet to meet the enemy, only to retire shamefully from his presence; to receive action instead of offering it; to begin battles only to end them with the semblance of defeat; to ruin moral force in order to save physical force,—that was the spirit which, as has been very judiciously said by M. Charles Dupin, guided the French ministry of that epoch.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Up, and all the morning sitting at the office, where every body grown mighty cautious in what they do, or omit to do, and at noon comes Knepp, with design to dine with Lord Brouncker, but she being undressed, and there being: much company, dined with me; and after dinner I out with her, and carried her to the playhouse; and in the way did give her five guineas as a fairing, I having given her nothing a great while, and her coming hither sometimes having been matter of cost to her, and so I to St. James’s, but missed of the Duke of York, and so went back to the King’s playhouse, and saw “Rollo, Duke of Normandy,” which, for old acquaintance, pleased me pretty well, and so home and to my business,.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

M., 1824, Lady Margaret Charteris, dau.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

The sun was scarcely visible behind the dark-blue mountain, which only a practised eye could distinguish from a thunder-cloud; but above the sun was a blood-red streak to which my companion directed particular attention.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

This terror then, this darkness of the mind, Not sunrise with its flaring spokes of light, Nor glittering arrows of morning can disperse, But only nature's aspect and her law.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

All that the wisest man can do is to observe what is going on more widely and more minutely and then select more carefully from what is noted just those factors which point to something to happen.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

"I'm doing my best, ma'am, but can't get much higher, I'm afraid, as six feet is about all men can do in these degenerate days," responded the young gentleman, whose head was about level with the little chandelier.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The one, being designed to resist the attack of an implacable enemy, who is using every weapon that the ingenuity of man can devise to effect its destruction, is built with little if any regard to the cost.
— from An Unsinkable Titanic: Every Ship its own Lifeboat by John Bernard Walker

He was disposed to do his duty—so far as a man can do his duty, who imagines himself so entirely lifted above his fellow creatures as to owe no obligation except to exact their obedience and to personify to them the will of the Almighty.
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Still more clearly does perception pass into inference when the class is constituted by less obvious qualities, which require a careful and prolonged process of recollection, discrimination, and comparison, for their recognition.
— from Illusions: A Psychological Study by James Sully

“Ah, Mrs. Crofton, don’t you know?” cried Johnnie, blushing, a soft overpowering youthful blush, which would have done no discredit to Clara herself; and the poor, foolish boy looked at me with an appealing triumphant look, as if he at once entreated me to say, and defied me to deny that she was altogether an angel, and he the very happiest of boys or men.
— from Heart and Cross by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

But, deuce take it, don’t you see the fellow’s mad, cracked, demented!
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

Nevertheless, over-care for the soldiers may cause disobedience; over-attention may make them unserviceable; over-indulgence may produce disorder: they become like spoilt children, and cannot be used.
— from The Book of War: The Military Classic of the Far East The Articles of Suntzu; The Sayings of Wutzu by Qi Wu

My conscience drove me to madness.
— from The Under-Secretary by William Le Queux

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— from The Countess of Saint Geran Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas

[Pg 193] impression on the whole party, and the following day, being Sunday, Mr. Campbell did not forget to offer up a prayer of thankfulness for their preservation.
— from The Settlers in Canada by Frederick Marryat