Valuing himself not a little upon his elegance, being indeed a proper man of person, this talkative now applied himself to his dress with animadversions of some heat upon the sudden whimsy of the atmospherics while the company lavished their encomiums upon the project he had advanced.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

And, said he, as for disturbance, I make none, being myself a man of peace; the parties that were won to us, were won by beholding our truth and innocence, and they are only turned from the worse to the better.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

Is it for my own pleasure that I am at the farm or in the office from morning to night?
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The mode of performing these tribal sacrifices was as follows.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

People do, indeed, add the word 'maker' or 'poet' to the name of the metre, and speak of elegiac poets, or epic (that is, hexameter) poets, as if it were not the imitation that makes the poet, but the verse that entitles them all indiscriminately to the name.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Farthest east in the Pacific there is the Polynesian, then in the groups of small islands, known as Micronesian; then Melanesian or Papuan; the Malayan throughout the East Indian archipelago, and to the north the languages of the Philippines.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

And were we not saying long ago that the soul when using the body as an instrument of perception, that is to say, when using the sense of sight or hearing or some other sense (for the meaning of perceiving through the body is perceiving through the senses)—were we not saying that the soul too is then dragged by the body into the region of the changeable, and wanders and is confused; the world spins round her, and she is like a drunkard, when she touches change? Very true.
— from Phaedo by Plato

He ceased: the Rákshas chief obeyed, And thus in turn his answer made: “O Prince, the Self-existent gave This boon to Rávaṇ; he may brave All foes in fight; no fiend or snake, Gandharva, God, his life may take.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

We shall publish reports of Normal Work, the Kindergarten Children’s Meetings, Primary Class Drills, College of Music, Concerts, Denominational Conferences, C. L. S. C. Camp-fires, Class Vigils, a full account of Graduating Day, lectures on Models of Palestine, Tabernacle, Model of Jerusalem, Descriptions of Days and Prominent Men and Women, Personal and Local News.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, June 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

The king, steeped in pollution, a fanatic and a hypocrite, exhibited himself to his subjects bareheaded, barefooted, and half naked, scourging himself with a whip, reciting his prayers, and preparing the way, by the most ostentatious penances, to plunge anew into every degrading sensual indulgence.
— from Henry IV, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Just as the militarist has regarded war, not as a means of preventing the enslavement of peoples and their subjection to foreign rule, but rather as in itself a source of virtue and blessing, of progress and civilization; so too the feminist teachers have told us, not that the entrance of women into munition works was necessary to enable our country to arm for its terrible war, but have hailed the successive appearances of women in factories, foundries,
— from Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

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— from March Anson and Scoot Bailey of the U.S. Navy by Marshall McClintock

From different points of view it may be thought a palliation—and the reverse—of the extreme virulence with which Elliott took the side of workmen against landowners and men of property, that he attained to affluence himself as an employer, and was never in the least incommoded by the "condition-of-England" question.
— from A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury

He was a slight, spare man, of perhaps thirty years of age, with an extraordinarily sensitive face—the sort of look one sees sometimes in a great musician or dreamer—his hair fairish, inclined to red, and his complexion that which goes with such hair.
— from The Water-Finders by Judith Vandeleur

The red-streaked pole of the barber-surgeon and the reeking scaffold, symbols of venesection as a means of promoting the physical and moral health of the community, were the appropriate signs of medicine and jurisprudence.
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans

But such had been the kindness of the good woman, that he had it not in his heart to seize upon her husband's arms, and he left this wild scene of rustic hospitality without supplies, or the means of procuring them.
— from Life of Joseph Brant—Thayendanegea (Vol. II) Including the Border Wars of the American Revolution and Sketches of the Indian Campaigns of Generals Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne; And Other Matters Connected with the Indian Relations of the United States and Great Britain, from the Peace of 1783 to the Indian Peace of 1795 by William L. (William Leete) Stone