But if I am so bloodthirsty and cruelly calculating that when I kill a man I only run back to find out whether he is alive to witness against me, why should I spend five minutes looking after my victim at the risk of encountering other witnesses?
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They descended the hill, crossed the bridge, and drove to the door; and, while examining the nearer aspect of the house, all her apprehension of meeting its owner returned.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

When people get money they often stop growing because they depend upon the money instead of relying upon their own inherent resources.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

“That he should live to be an instrument of mischief disturbs me; in other respects this hour, when I momentarily expect my release, is the only happy one which I have enjoyed for several years.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Here, as in New Caledonia, we find religion blent with magic, for the prayer to the dead chief, which is purely religious, is eked out with a magical imitation of rain at his grave.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Acilius, in the sea-fight at Marseilles, having seized a ship of the enemy’s with his right hand, and that being cut off, in imitation of that memorable instance of resolution in Cynaegirus amongst the Greeks, boarded the enemy’s ship, bearing down all before him with the boss of his shield.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The success which attends the efforts of reason in the sphere of mathematics naturally fosters the expectation that the same good fortune will be its lot, if it applies the mathematical method in other regions of mental endeavour besides that of quantities.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

But come young waverer, come go with me, In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; For this alliance may so happy prove, To turn your households’ rancour to pure love. ROMEO.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

In pursuance of my intention of referring to my own fictions only when their course should incidentally connect itself with the progress of my story, I do not enter on the aspirations, the delights, anxieties, and triumphs of my art.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Though it is true that men's passions and interests often dictate their opinions, or rather decide their choice among the two or three forms of opinion, which the existing condition of human intelligence renders possible, this disturbing cause is confined to morals, politics, and religion; and it is the intellectual movement in other regions than these, which is at the root of all the great changes in human affairs.
— from Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill

The following case occurred in the practice of Reveille Pariset; a little girl 7 years old, whose health failed every day having been detected in onanism, her mother instead of reproaching her, gave her to understand that it was the custom to apply a bandage to girls of her age.
— from A Treatise on the Diseases Produced By Onanism, Masturbation, Self-Pollution, and Other Excesses. by L. (Léopold) Deslandes

To [Pg 74] convey my ideas, or render a more compleat exposition of my impressions as to the actual loss on one waggon load (predicated on a distance of seventy miles land carriage) of first proof whiskey, and that nine degrees under proof.
— from The Practical Distiller An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c. of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce of the United States by Samuel McHarry

That, at least, is my impression of Renoir's latest style.
— from Since Cézanne by Clive Bell

I am quoting, not from the printed text, but from the original manuscript, which is my most cherished literary possession; and this lovely peroration, if such it may be called, is the only part of the essay which has been much interlineated or recast.
— from The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections by A. Edward (Alfred Edward) Newton

The morning, instead of relieving the fears that in the darkness had been with me, seemed to increase them.
— from The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Rafael Sabatini

And not a few priests, both secular [ 50 ] and regular, undertook dangerous journeys, as representatives of the country, and this, along with the strict and public residencia 2 then required of the governing powers, from the captain-general to the most insignificant official, rather consoled and pacified the wounded spirits, satisfying, even though it were only in form, all the malcontents.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

“Up to this time perfect silence had been maintained in our ranks.
— from The Eagle Cliff by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The awful fact of individuality, that solemn mystery of our personal being, has its most blessed or its most dread manifestation in our relation to God.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

See ULYSSES ODYSSEY, Homer's poem, relating the wanderings of Odysseus (Ulysses) on returning from Trojan War OEDIPUS, Theban hero, who guessed the riddle of the Sphinx (which See), becoming King of Thebes OENEUS, King of Calydon OENONE, nymph, married by Paris in his youth, and abandoned for Helen OENOPION, King of Chios OETA, Mount, scene of Hercules' death OGIER, the Dane, one of the paladins of Charlemagne OLIVER, companion of Orlando OLWEN, wife of Kilwich OLYMPIA, a small plain in Elis, where the Olympic games were celebrated OLYMPIADS, periods between Olympic games (four years) OLYMPIAN GAMES, See GAMES OLYMPUS, dwelling place of the dynasty of gods of which Zeus was the head OMPHALE, queen of Lydia, daughter of Iardanus and wife of Tmolus OPHION, king of the Titans, who ruled Olympus till dethroned by the gods Saturn and Rhea OPS See RHEA ORACLES, answers from the gods to questions from seekers for knowledge or advice for the future, usually in equivocal form, so as to fit any event, also places where such answers were given forth usually by a priest or priestess ORC, a sea monster, foiled by Rogero when about to devour Angelica OREADS, nymphs of mountains and hills ORESTES, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, because of his crime in killing his mother, he was pursued by the Furies until purified by Minerva ORION, youthful giant, loved by Diana, Constellation ORITHYIA, a nymph, seized by Boreas ORLANDO, a famous knight and nephew of Charlemagne ORMUZD (Greek, Oromasdes), son of Supreme Being, source of good as his brother Ahriman (Arimanes) was of evil, in Persian or Zoroastrian religion ORPHEUS, musician, son of Apollo and Calliope, See EURYDICE OSIRIS, the most beneficent of the Egyptian gods OSSA, mountain of Thessaly OSSIAN, Celtic poet of the second or third century OVID, Latin poet (See Metamorphoses) OWAIN, knight at King Arthur's court OZANNA, a knight of Arthur P PACTOLUS, river whose sands were changed to gold by Midas PAEON, a name for both Apollo and Aesculapius, gods of medicine, PAGANS, heathen PALADINS or peers, knights errant PALAEMON, son of Athamas and Ino PALAMEDES, messenger sent to call Ulysses to the Trojan War PALAMEDES, Saracen prince at Arthur's court PALATINE, one of Rome's Seven Hills PALES, goddess presiding over cattle and pastures PALINURUS, faithful steersman of Aeeas PALLADIUM, properly any image of Pallas Athene, but specially applied to an image at Troy, which was stolen by Ulysses and Diomedes PALLAS, son of Evander PALLAS A THE'NE (Minerva) PAMPHA GUS, a dog of Diana PAN, god of nature and the universe PANATHENAEA, festival in honor of Pallas Athene (Minerva) PANDEAN PIPES, musical instrument of reeds, made by Pan in memory of Syrinx PANDORA (all gifted), first woman, dowered with gifts by every god, yet entrusted with a box she was cautioned not to open, but, curious, she opened it, and out flew all the ills of humanity, leaving behind only Hope, which remained PANDRASUS, a king in Greece, who persecuted Trojan exiles under Brutus, great grandson of Aeneas, until they fought, captured him, and, with his daughter Imogen as Brutus' wife, emigrated to Albion (later called Britain) PANOPE, plain of PANTHUS, alleged earlier incarnation of Pythagoras PAPHLAGNIA, ancient country in Asia Minor, south of Black Sea PAPHOS, daughter of Pygmalion and Galatea (both of which, See)
— from The Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch