Oh how dreary is a burial in winter, when the bosom of Mother Earth has no warmth for her poor child!
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

And that all might have an opportunity of acquiring military experience, he commonly joined two sons of senators in command of each troop of horse.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

but what he could not tell, a man had verry friendly envited him to go and eate in his lodge, that the Indian had locked armes with him and went to a lodge in which a woman gave him Some blubber, that the man envited him to another lodge to get Something better, and the woman held him by the blanket which he had around him another ran out and hollow'd and his pretended friend disapeared—I emediately ordered every man to hold themselves in a State of rediness and Sent Sergt.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I improved, however, sensibly in this science, but not sufficiently to follow up any kind of conversation, although I applied my whole mind to the endeavour: for I easily perceived that, although I eagerly longed to discover myself to the cottagers, I ought not to make the attempt until I had first become master of their language; which knowledge might enable me to make them overlook the deformity of my figure; for with this also the contrast perpetually presented to my eyes had made me acquainted.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In addition to the wonderful titles published by the MIT press, the bookshop is a tour through the most exciting high-tech publications in the world, from hacker zines like 2600 to fat academic anthologies on video-game design.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

She was a most exemplary housewife and manager.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it from him.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Es kann nichts helfen ein grosses Schicksal zu haben, wenn man nicht weiss, dass man eines hat —It is of no avail for a man to have a great destiny if he does not know that he has one.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The proportional profit on each man's labor may even have been in general higher, but the total amount possible to be undertaken by one employer was relatively so small that no tremendous aggregations of wealth could arise.
— from Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre by Voltairine De Cleyre

There was a Christian weaver with his wife in a far quarter—against my entreaty he went to warn them.
— from The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete by Gilbert Parker

The Mughal Emperor Humáyún was engaged in war with Bahádur Sháh, the King of Ahmadábád or Gujarát.
— from Rulers of India: Albuquerque by H. Morse (Henry Morse) Stephens

When Antonius had reached the coast of Libya, and had sent Cleopatra forwards to Egypt from Parætonium, 452 he had his fill of solitude, wandering and rambling about with two friends, one a Greek, Aristokrates, a rhetorician, and the other a Roman, Lucilius, 453 about whom I have said elsewhere that at Philippi, in order that Brutus might escape, he had surrendered to the pursuers, pretending that he was Brutus, and his life being spared by Antonius on that account, he remained faithful to him and firm to the last critical times.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

[191] [i.175] Morelly even, his own contemporary, and much less of a sage than Aristotle, was still sage enough to perceive that this primitive human machine, "though composed of intelligent parts, generally operates independently of its reason; its deliberations are forestalled, and only leave it to look on, while sentiment does its work."
— from Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) by John Morley

[51] The language of Beni's treatise was strong—its very title speaks of liberating the drama from the shackles of verse; and for a heresy of this sort, couched as it was in language that might even have been revolutionary enough for the French romanticists of 1830, the sixteenth century was not yet fully prepared.
— from A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn

Many estimates have taken little account of the number of men required to handle a modern transportation service, and the supply organization to back up an effective army at the front.
— from The Audacious War by Clarence W. (Clarence Walker) Barron

Our dog that we had left behind came into the camp to-night, very much exhausted, having travelled about thirty miles; he must have subsisted on nondas, as it was impossible he could have caught anything, and we had seen him eat them before.
— from Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 by John MacGillivray

I war the harnt —I mean ez the harnt war me —ennyhow," he concluded desperately, "I'd ketch it—sure!"
— from The Young Mountaineers: Short Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

[Pg 451] merely enable him to demand a dollar every time that one conception is used.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various