The arts, I take it, are a means of giving expression to the emotional side of this mental activity, intimately related as it often is to the more purely intellectual side.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

That of Kronos was made of gleaming ebony, which concealed in its blackness a lustre so intense and divine that no one could endure to gaze thereon.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

I, of course, understood very little of it, but Dounia explained to me that, though he is not a man of great education, he is clever and seems to be good-natured.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

d knights, and all the men of great estate, came together before him, and said, “Noble Emperor!
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

[‘ horse ’] horslīce = horsclīce hors-ðegn , -ðēn m. ostler, groom, equerry : muleteer , GD 191 23 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Even the history of the conquerors records that the most obstinate opposition which the arms of Mahmud of Ghazni encountered was from the prince of Ajmer, [65] who forced him to retreat, foiled and disgraced, from this celebrated stronghold, in his destructive route to Saurashtra.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The master of great Epicurus Suffered from this rabble once; Which shows e'en learning can't secure us From the malice of the dunce.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

τοῦ μυστηρίου κ.τ.λ.] ‘ the mystery of God , even Christ in whom , etc.,’
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Up very betimes, called by Mr. Cutler, by appointment, and with him in his coach and four horses over London Bridge to Kingston, a very pleasant journey, and at Hampton Court by nine o’clock, and in our way very good and various discourse, as he is a man, that though I think he be a knave, as the world thinks him, yet a man of great experience and worthy to be heard discourse.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But put a headline, 'Randall on Divorce,' and it is not seen at once that the Archbishop of Canterbury has been addressing the Upper House on a matter of grave ecclesiastical import.
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Patrick Braybrooke

In Wednesday morning’s Times there appeared an advertisement, which informed the readers of the leading journal that Mr. Crapp wanted, as clerk, a single young man, of good education, quick at accounts, who wrote a superior hand, of unquestionable sobriety, strict honesty, and enjoying one or two minor qualities.
— from Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective by Andrew Forrester

He was a man of great energy and vigor; he was stern and had a deep sense of his human responsibility.
— from The Prophet Ezekiel: An Analytical Exposition by Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Madam, O good empress,— EROS.
— from Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

It is also the happy destiny of this lady to wear the most superlatively beautiful clothes, and when, in moments of guilty emotion, she swishes her train about, we have a vision of petticoats which only she, indifferent to the voice of conscience and laundry charges, dares to wear; and still more damning witness than her petticoats to her evil conscience is the elegance of her feet.
— from The Champagne Standard by Lane, John, Mrs.

[1151] How odious it was may be gathered from Dryden's Annus Mirabilis and Marvell's Character of Holland , pieces in which two men of genius exhibit every stress of vulgar ill-feeling that we can detect in the Jingo press and poets of our own day.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

Where is the man to be found who wishes to remain indebted for the defence of his own person and property, to the exertions, the bravery, and the blood of others, without making one generous effort to repay the debt of honour and of gratitude?
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

'The flinty rock bubbled with fresh water; the once barren soil, with prolific abundance, brought forth grain; trees and shrubs, bearing fruit, decked the smiling shores; the troubled waters clapped their hands for joy; the plains assumed a mantle of green, embroidered with flowers, the evil spirits were bound in eternal darkness, and angels of light communed with the saint!'
— from Grace Darling, Heroine of the Farne Islands by Marianne Farningham

While thus thinking, at the same time, with the ease of manner peculiar to him in moments of great excitement, he began to speak of his native city.
— from Casanova's Homecoming by Arthur Schnitzler

Now it has churches, banks, schools, manufactures, and mercantile men of great energy and high standing; and has become, especially since the Pacific Railway Company has made it one of their great stations, the gateway of the North-West.
— from Pictures of Canadian Life: A Record of Actual Experiences by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie