“And yet we foolishly fear one kind of death, whereas we have already passed, and do daily pass, so many others; for not only, as Heraclitus said, the death of fire is generation of air, and the death of air generation of water; but, moreover, we may more manifestly discern it in ourselves; manhood dies, and passes away when age comes on; and youth is terminated in the flower of age of a full-grown man, infancy in youth, and the first age dies in infancy; yesterday died in to-day, and to-day will die in to-morrow; and there is nothing that remains in the same state, or that is always the same thing.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

There was only a glimmer of life in her, a glimmer of consciousness that she had been a lady who had once had her own serfs, that she was the widow of a general whom the servants had to address as "your Excellency"; and when these feeble relics of life flickered up in her for an instant she would say to her son: "Jean, you are not holding your knife properly!"
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Both these motives combine to produce the, after all, very human and understandable attitude of disdain at the reception of a gift.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

It was the right ripe time for a free fight, for the festivities of the morrow—Coronation Day—were already beginning; everybody was full of strong drink and patriotism; within five minutes the free fight was occupying a good deal of ground; within ten or twelve it covered an acre of so, and was become a riot.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

But the only thing about him that could be fixed upon as remarkable was his staff, which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought that it might almost be seen to twist and wriggle itself like a living serpent.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

that his majesty should take Such notice of a giaour, while scarce to one Of them his lips imperial ever spake!
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

After, pass men overthwart a great river that men clepe p. 138 Dalay.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

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— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Nay, the Epicureans and Atomical Philosophers shewed a very remarkable Modesty in this Particular; for though the Being of a God was entirely repugnant to their Schemes of natural Philosophy, they contented themselves with the Denial of a Providence, asserting at the same Time the Existence of Gods in general; because they would not shock the common Belief of Mankind, and the Religion of their Country.'
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

He was from New England and was lonely, and had brought out at great expense a musical box to cheer him.
— from The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc

Amphitryon had the Name, and never fail’d of a general Approbation; Epidicus was our Author’s Favourite, and truly there is much Art in it, tho’
— from Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) by Lawrence Echard

Above the Creek all the country between the Cross River and the Niger up to near Lokoja in Northern Nigeria, was occupied by the Ibo tribe, numbering about four millions, of a fairly high racial type, who were dominated by the Aros clan dwelling in some twenty or thirty towns situated close together in the district of Arochuku ("God of the Aros").
— from Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary by W. P. (William Pringle) Livingstone

They now organized a Government, a real Civil Administration, extending over a great part of Luzon, and sent an expedition to Visayas.
— from The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

Odin, or Wuotan, [77] whose name in its etymological meaning is probably the god who moves violently or rushes along, [78] was originally a god of the wind rather than of the atmosphere of heaven.
— from The Dawn of History: An Introduction to Pre-Historic Study by C. F. (Charles Francis) Keary

Morton, with the kindly eyes of a good shepherd, looked at the man.
— from Men, Women, and Boats by Stephen Crane

When Mogue Moylan heard that John purcel had gone to the gunsmith's for the blunderbluss, he stealthily sought the barn where he slept, and, putting on a great frieze coat, he went to the haggard; approached the stack, and thrusting his hand up the thatch, secured a case of pistols that had been left with him and Jerry Joyce for their defence, and fixing them under his coat, deliberately took his departure.
— from The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

As the afternoon began to wane Bandy-legs surprised his chums by actually volunteering to go out and gather wood for the fire.
— from With Trapper Jim in the North Woods by Lawrence J. Leslie