But far away in Africa the magician remembered Aladdin, and by his magic arts discovered that Aladdin, instead of perishing miserably in the cave, had escaped, and had married a princess, with whom he was living in great honor and wealth.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

As for Lambert, who was beside me in the carriage, he did nothing but eat, drink, and sleep the whole way; seldom speaking, for he stammered, and could only talk about mathematical problems, on which I was not always in the humour to converse.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Reason dictates to me, to quit all thoughts of a woman who places her affections on another; my passion bids me hope she may in time change her inclinations in my favour.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The musmons in the corral had been stripped of their wool, and this precious textile material was now to be transformed into stuff.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

She was born a mouse; I then changed her successively, according to her own wish, into a cat, a dog, an ape, a boar, an elephant, and a beautiful girl.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

But he was newly married; in the circumstances he cannot have known much of Desdemona before his marriage; and further he was conscious of being under the spell of a feeling which can [193] give glory to the truth but can also give it to a dream.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

[A] When the round is entirely covered, put the scissors in between the two circles of cardboard and cut open the stitches all round the outer edge, fig. 838 ; then draw a piece of thread between the two circles and knot it firmly round the stitches that meet in the centre hole, fig. 839 ; leave sufficiently long ends of thread hanging to form a loop by which the ball can afterwards be fastened to the heading of the fringe; when the stitches are knotted together you cut and pull out the cardboard, fig.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Classification of the Materials The materials in this chapter have been selected to exhibit (1) the rôle which competition plays in social life and all life, and (2) the types of organization that competition has everywhere created as a result of the division of labor it has everywhere enforced.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Marduk is the Chaldæan Hercules.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The only general pedagogic maxim bearing on attention is that the more interest the child has in advance in the subject, the better he will attend.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

While the Yorkists lodged in the city, the Beauforts, Percies, and Cliffords, sojourned on the west of Temple Bar; and while one party held their deliberations in the Black Friars, the other held their meetings in the Chapter House at Westminster.
— from The Wars of the Roses; or, Stories of the Struggle of York and Lancaster by John G. (John George) Edgar

Several ministers in this city have undertaken to answer me—notably those who don't believe the Bible themselves.
— from Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. by Robert Green Ingersoll

Mr. Adams.—Well, sir, then I come back to my position, that every man in this country has a right to be an abolitionist, and that in being so he offends no law, but, in my opinion, obeys the most sacred of all laws.
— from Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States With the Eulogy Delivered Before the Legislature of New York by William Henry Seward

On Wednesday night several thousand persons were still marooned in the court house, hospital, factory buildings and other structures because the various relief parties sent from South Bend and other cities had not sufficient boats to carry them to the nearest dry land.
— from The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado by Logan Marshall

Each man in the crew holds a responsible position and knows that the slightest neglect endangers the welfare of the whole boat.
— from The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner by Forstner, Georg-Günther, Freiherr von

"But I have always heard," replied the nephew, "that a man in this country has no right to look to commerce as a profession unless he possesses capital."
— from The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope

Nan saw a pile of her own gifts, so she set Freddie down for a moment, intending to carry him up stairs a little later.
— from The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge by Laura Lee Hope

If he has a screw or a doctor "right" he may stay for months in the comparatively healthy hospital at Sing Sing, where he can loaf all day, and get better food than at the public mess.
— from The Autobiography of a Thief by Hutchins Hapgood

"Have you been to tea, Judge Merlin?" inquired the countess hospitably.
— from Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth