Shên I shot nine arrows in succession, pierced the birds, and immediately the nine false suns resolved themselves into red clouds and melted away.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Sambu (Sambhu, the Auspicious One) is merely another name for Shiva (rarely of Brahma), and its application to the crocodile-spirit would appear to indicate that this latter was, formerly, at least, regarded as an embodiment of that supreme god’s manifestation as a water-god.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Still, restricted as it was in its operation, Anderson remarks, "this regulation is neglected for several reasons, and now obsolete."
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

D——l take me, if I did not feel some remorse—beast, if I had not,—at quitting my old compeers, the faithful partners of my toils for six and thirty years, that smoothed for me with their jokes and conundrums the ruggedness of my professional road.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

— O my brethren, not long will it be until NEW PEOPLES shall arise and new fountains shall rush down into new depths.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Lying gazing into the darkness, Nikitin for some reason began thinking how in two or three years he would go to Petersburg, how Masha would see him off at the station and would cry; in Petersburg he would get a long letter from her in which she would entreat him to come home as quickly as possible.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I took advantage of the interval to tell him of my visit to Filipov’s house, and curtly and dryly expressed my opinion that Lebyadkin’s sister (whom I had never seen) really might have been somehow victimised by Nicolas at some time during that mysterious period of his life, as Liputin had called it, and that it was very possible that Lebyadkin received sums of money from Nicolas for some reason, but that was all.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Now for something rational!
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

On every side they were engaged in deadly combat, yet without any noise that I could hear, and human soldiers never fought so resolutely.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

“All right, sah; if I see him I’ll stop him, nebbah feah, sah,” replied the waiter, with a grin; and therewith I hurried away to my room to dress.
— from A Pirate of the Caribbees by Harry Collingwood

"Never fear, sir," replied Malachi; "I'll watch his motions nevertheless; to-morrow I'll be in the woods and on his trail.
— from The Settlers in Canada by Frederick Marryat

Always, after a quarrel from which Edward had come with his usual triumph, Bertha’s rage would be succeeded by a passion of remorse; and she could not find sufficient reproaches with which to castigate herself.
— from Mrs. Craddock by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Do it now for something real and personal, as we lawyers say.
— from On the Frontier by Bret Harte

256 Lees, Miss Florence (Mrs. Dacre Craven), ii. 203 , 253 , 314 n. Lefevre, Charles Shaw (Lord Eversley), i. 25 , 36 Lefroy, Colonel Sir John Henry, scientific adviser to Secretary for War, i. 297 ; mission to the Crimea (1855), i. 297 ; high opinion of F. N.'s work, i. 297 ; character and abilities, i. 322 , 351 , 491 , ii. 427 ; supports her at the War Office (1856), i. 297 ; co-operates with F. N. for soldiers' reading-rooms, etc., i. 330 , 331 , 350 , 396 ; letters to F. N., i. 322 , 351 , 491 Lehzen, Baroness, i. 25 Leith, Dr., ii. 54 , 55 n. Lentils, ii.
— from The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2 by Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir

But the new fallen snow reveals their presence.
— from In the Open: Intimate Studies and Appreciations of Nature by Stanton Davis Kirkham

There would be nothing which could be called knowledge, if thought did not first so re-create the world into "things" which are in its own image.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"I take my own, and crave of you no favour," she remarked haughtily.
— from The Curse of Koshiu: A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield