Vessels made of red sanders wood carry no pollution, and can be used by women during the menstrual period, and taken back to the house without any purification ceremony.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

The daily havoc which is perpetrated by the Turks in the cities of Greece and Asia may afford a melancholy example; and in the gradual destruction of the monuments of Rome, Sixtus the Fifth may alone be excused for employing the stones of the Septizonium in the glorious edifice of St. Peter's.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

He who does not expect a million of readers should not write a line.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

But he carried himself very discreetly in that business, seeming to take no notice, and allowing me only such time as I could steal from my other regular studies, which whetted my appetite to devour those books.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Let him raise himself socially with my money or raise somebody else so long as there is a social profit somewhere, I'll regard my expenditure as justified.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

“You'd better consider yourself that, once I am taken prisoner by the enemies of the Christian race, and they demand from me to curse the name of God and to renounce my holy christening, I am fully entitled to act by my own reason, since there would be no sin in it.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And it is actually in this way that each man usually deliberates ( e.g. ) what profession to choose for himself, or what mode of education for his children, whether to aim at marriage or remain single, whether to settle in town or country, in England or abroad, etc.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Actual crests were fastened to the helmets they surmounted by Page 336 {336} means of ribbons, straps, laces (which developed later into the fillet and torse), or rivets, and in Germany they were ornamented with hanging and tinkling metal leaves, tiny bells, buffalo horns, feathers, and projecting pieces of wood, which formed vehicles for still further decorative appendages.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

"A moment, Monsieur of Rozel," she ventured.
— from Michel and Angele [A Ladder of Swords] — Volume 1 by Gilbert Parker

Besides these manifestations of revolutionary socialism, we have various societies representing an amateur and appreciative interest in socialism.
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

This podium, however, seems always to have been a purely constructive expedient, without any mystic or religious significance, for unless the base of an earthen mound is confined by a revêtement of this sort it is apt to spread, and then the whole monument loses that definition which is requisite to dignity.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

After a few minutes of rapid spin down the sloping road from the bridge, we began to chat again gaily.
— from The Mystery of the Sea by Bram Stoker

It's got a portion of my old red shirt in its folds."
— from The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain by John R. Cook

During the half minute of repose she got him so close that she could touch his shoulder.
— from Lotta Schmidt, and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope

The most of you (this is what strikes all beholders) Have a mental and physical stoop in the shoulders; Though you ought to be free as the winds and the waves, You've the gait and the manners of runaway slaves; Tho' you brag of your New World, you don't half believe in it, And as much of the Old as is possible weave in it; Your goddess of freedom, a tight, buxom girl, With lips like a cherry and teeth like a pearl, With eyes bold as Herè's, and hair floating free, And full of the sun as the spray of the sea, Who can sing at a husking or romp at a shearing, Who can trip through the forests alone without fearing, Who can drive home the cows with a song through the grass,
— from Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell