Yet, though stricken sore, I still will ask thee, for what crime, what thing Unlawful, wilt thou cast me out, O King? Creon.
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

They call themselves Lena′pe or Leni-lena′pe , a term apparently signifying “real, or original men,” or “men of our kind.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

To this now was joined the presence, only twenty-five miles off, of Kitty Shtcherbatskaya, whom he longed to see and could not see.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Accordingly, having seen General Burnside's forces move out of Knoxville in pursuit of Longstreet, and General Granger's move in, I put in motion my own command to return.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The frog had been hanging on a wire of copper; and it had been the metal of our knife which had sent the strange power to the copper through the brine of the frog's body.
— from Anthem by Ayn Rand

Now, made a knight of Arthur's Table Round, And since I knew this Earl, when I myself Was half a bandit in my lawless hour, I come the mouthpiece of our King to Doorm (The King is close behind me) bidding him Disband himself, and scatter all his powers, Submit, and hear the judgment of the King.'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

[Pg 357] —We don't regard a man of our kind as refuted by his vices, nor by his tomfooleries.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"So does my mamma—'cept Sara is my mamma at Miss Minchin's—my other one knows everything.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

No one of these articles bore the slightest appearance of recent use, and common-place as they would have seemed in another dwelling, in that house they looked mysteriously out of keeping.
— from Fashion and Famine by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

I told her that I had acquitted myself, out of kindness and respect, of a commission almost beyond my strength, and I begged her never to mention it to the King, who, perhaps, would have liked to see and judge himself all that I had destroyed.
— from Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Complete by Madame de Montespan

In his Russian edition, Professor Bruun submits the word Koljy derived from Koll, the title of those of the second class of the Monastic Order of Kalender, the founder of which Order, singularly enough, was one named Joseph.
— from The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger, a Native of Bavaria, in Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1396-1427 by Johannes Schiltberger

We made a long and careful stalk to the spot, and looking about found our expected prey had moved out of ken.
— from The Diary of a Hunter from the Punjab to the Karakorum Mountains by Augustus Henry Irby

Any man of ordinary knowledge and experience of the world, having regard only to the most ordinary circumstances, would tell you that so large an allowance as you make your son is not an advisable thing for any young man.”
— from A Valiant Ignorance; vol. 2 of 3 A Novel in Three Volumes by Mary Angela Dickens

He has probably had more opportunity of knowing the social and political life of London from the inside than most novelists of his time.
— from When Winter Comes to Main Street by Grant M. (Grant Martin) Overton

Yesterday we was all presented with some sox made out of knitting and they come in a bunch from the Red X and when I was going to bed I thought I would try mine on and see if they fit and if they didn't maybe I could trade with somebody that they did.
— from Treat 'em Rough: Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer by Ring Lardner

God and the Soul—and the same would be true of the World (though modern speculators sometimes talk as if they had it at least within their grasp)—are not mere objects of knowledge.
— from Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A Nephew, and a young London clerk, were to have come, but prevented; even my little Reader is gone to London for his Holyday, and left me with Eyes more out of Kelter
— from Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) by Edward FitzGerald