[ 199 ] The necklaces of different length and of different finish have each their own class names, of which there are about a dozen.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Sounds also, besides the distinct cries of birds and beasts, are modified by diversity of notes of different length put together, which make that complex idea called a tune, which a musician may have in his mind when he hears or makes no sound at all, by reflecting on the ideas of those sounds, so put together silently in his own fancy.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

To the one, nights spent in dancing had seemed made of minutes instead of hours; to the other, those selfsame nights had been like all other nights of dungeon life and seemed made of slow, dragging weeks instead of hours and minutes.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

O quickly bind up the wounds of the fallen—let not one die; let not one more soul escape through your merciless gashes, to relate before the throne of God the tale of fratricide; bind up their wounds—restore them to their friends.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

For that nothing of this sort should have, over the pure affections even of a sleeper, the very least influence, not even such as a thought would restrain,—to work this, not only during life, but even at my present age, is not hard for the Almighty, Who art able to do above all that we ask or think.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He is guarded by such as watch, and such as are, as it were, fixed down to the place through fear; for no one dares leave him, even when he is asleep, nor does any one go away and take care of his own affairs; but he esteems this one thing the only work of necessity, to guard the king, and accordingly to this he wholly addicts himself.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

When all transports me with delight, If aught deludes I can not know, She either lulls one like the Night, Or dazzles like the Morning-glow.
— from The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

But may not our descriptions, Lotze asks, be themselves important additions to reality?
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Letters of nobility and the name of Du Lis were granted by Charles VII.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

2. Nouveau systeme geographique, par lequel on concilie les anciennes connoissances sur les Pays au Nord Ouest de l'Amerique.
— from Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America To which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China by William Coxe

Then the son had gone up into the wilderness northeast of Dove Lake, and had settled in the wildest and least populated region, where he broke ground for a farm of his own.
— from The Emperor of Portugallia by Selma Lagerlöf

Among the foreigners who settled in England none exercised such varied influence as the Hugenots; students of Shakespeare and Milton can no longer ignore the Hugenot friends of the two poets, historians of the Commonwealth must take into account the “Nouvelles ordinaires de Londres.”
— from Glimpses of Indian Birds by Douglas Dewar

I regret that I shall not live to know the result of the expedition to determine the currents of the ocean, the distance of the earth from the sun determined by the transits of Venus, and the source of the most renowned of rivers, the discovery of which will immortalise the name of Dr. Livingstone.
— from Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville

They did not ride quite so fast during the afternoon, all on Tubby's account, though no one dared let him know that, or he would have been very angry.
— from The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico by John Henry Goldfrap

His true family name is De Prat; but he took the name of De Lamartine from his uncle, whose fortune he inherited in 1820.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 1 July 1848 by Various

Naturally no one date like a reign or a council can be selected to mark the beginning of a great school.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

In the course of half an hour, however, Alice Herbert herself appeared; and not only did Langford's eye light up with pleasure, but the conversation, which had before been of somewhat a grave, if not of a sad cast, instantly, as if by magic, became bright and sparkling, like the dark woods in the fairy tale, which, by a stroke of the enchanter's wand, are changed to crystal palaces and illuminated gardens.
— from The Robber, A Tale. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

"If you had been in the fort, I don't think you would have failed to take particular notice of Dick Lewis and Bob Kelly.
— from Frank in the Mountains by Harry Castlemon