In 1801 he went abroad with Lord Holland and family, and henceforth he maintained this connection, being long an inmate of Holland House (London) and a member of the brilliant society that assembled there.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

But its adherents, the Yogīs, are at the present day often nothing more than conjurers and jugglers.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Then, like wolves ravening in a black fog, whom mad malice of hunger hath driven blindly forth, and their cubs left behind await with throats unslaked; through the weapons of the enemy we march to certain death, and hold our way straight into the town.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The knife is meant to cut wood, to cut cheese, to cut pencils, to cut throats; for a myriad ingenious or innocent human objects.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Mrs. Touchett cried.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

One remark I may make: the contrast in this respect between the Hero-Poet and the Hero-Prophet.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

In thinking of our past thoughts we not only delineate out the objects, of which we were thinking, but also conceive the action of the mind in the meditation, that certain JE-NE-SCAI-QUOI, of which it is impossible to give any definition or description, but which every one sufficiently understands.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

According to a myth given on p. 422, there was an initial group of mythical Thaballa (cf.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Think what may come of it!” With a pitiful and distracted smile, a smile of shame and utter despair, and at the same time of a sort of strange ecstasy, he whispered to me, standing still for an instant: “I can’t marry to cover ‘another man’s sins’!”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

± hwyrft m. turning, circuit, revolution, motion, course, orbit : way out, outlet .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

We may therefore conclude that he found some time amid the gaieties of St. Andrews to read the books that had been bought for him.
— from Montrose by Mowbray Morris

"He's exceedingly offensive, and yet he has about him a certain magnetism that compels your attention, even while his manner and look repels and irritates.
— from The Mask: A Story of Love and Adventure by Arthur Hornblow

A Greek word meaning " the city of the dead ", our "cemetery".
— from The New York Obelisk: Cleopatra's Needle With a Preliminary Sketch of the History, Erection, Uses, and Signification of Obelisks by Charles E. Moldenke

Mr. Hume cried a halt, to their great content, and though there were some hours yet to evening, he set them to work to make the camp.
— from In Search of the Okapi A Story of Adventure in Central Africa by Ernest Glanville

The next morning the Chief Justice announced that the Court had conferred, that there were different opinions, that some of the judges had not arrived at a conclusion, and that consequently the cause must be continued.
— from John Marshall and the Constitution, a Chronicle of the Supreme Court by Edward Samuel Corwin

“Just give me that contract,” he suggested amiably; “there must be some mistake.”
— from Wunpost by Dane Coolidge

" "I can't see how bricks from the top of the chimney could have made the crack in the kitchen side of the chimney and this crack in the back of the fireplace.
— from Ethel Morton at Rose House by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

Remember though, right now the U.S. Treasury's out there with a tin cup begging the money to cover its interest payments.
— from The Samurai Strategy by Thomas Hoover

The Greek secular priests are allowed to marry: their religion does not inhibit gaiety, though it prescribes many fasts: they have often a numerous family, and the “priest’s house” has nothing of that ascetic and austere observance that marks the celibacy of the Latin church.
— from Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Series One and Series Two in one Volume by R. (Robert) Walsh