If instead of imagining to ourselves commanders of genius leading the Russian army, we picture that army without any leaders, it could not have done anything but make a return movement toward Moscow, describing an arc in the direction where most provisions were to be found and where the country was richest.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The monarch wears a cloak which seems to be made of cloth of gold, and is attached to the shoulder by a strap or ribbon sliding through a clasp; this cloak is embroidered in red, on a gold ground; the tunic is of reddish brown, and the shoes are light red, worked with gold thread.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

[ The first act of session was made by the State of New York in 1780; Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, South and North Carolina, followed this example at different times, and lastly, the act of cession of Georgia was made as recently as 1802.]
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

For both the belief in intermediate beings between God and the world has an importance which is higher in proportion as their own conception of God is purer; both appear not to have disdained magic; yet both regard the gift of prophecy as the highest fruit of wisdom and piety, which they pique themselves on possessing in their most distinguished members.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

One science only can one genius fit, / So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
— 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.

The coachman said it was his sister, so the King resolved to take no one but her as his wife, and gave him a carriage and horses and splendid garments of cloth of gold, and sent him forth to fetch his chosen bride.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Ninachetuen, an Indian lord, so soon as he heard the first whisper of the Portuguese Viceroy’s determination to dispossess him, without any apparent cause, of his command in Malacca, to transfer it to the King of Campar, he took this resolution with himself: he caused a scaffold, more long than broad, to be erected, supported by columns royally adorned with tapestry and strewed with flowers and abundance of perfumes; all which being prepared, in a robe of cloth of gold, set full of jewels of great value, he came out into the street, and mounted the steps to the scaffold, at one corner of which he had a pile lighted of aromatic wood.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

"If I had been in the service of some grandee of Spain or personage of distinction," replied the youth, "I should have been safe to get it; for that is the advantage of serving good masters, that out of the servants' hall men come to be ancients or captains, or get a good pension.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Essays in aid of the Formation of Character of Gentlemen and Gentlewomen.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

The only corrective is the recovery of the old conception of God.
— from The Literature and History of New Testament Times by J. Gresham (John Gresham) Machen

Peter Rabbit found out who some of his truest friends are when, because of his own carelessness, old Granny Fox caught him.
— from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

Queen Dampdeomopolis, who was mounted on an ambling pad which was covered with a housing of black velvet and had a gold fringed harness, wore a petticoat of cloth of gold, beneath a robe of crimson damask bordered with gold chains, while down the front ran a rich beading of precious stones, rubies and diamonds, of the value of more than 2,000 crowns.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

"Why, I trow he shall have washed him in silver basins set with turkey stones,[#] and drank out of cups of gold all bordered with pearls."
— from Red and White: A Tale of the Wars of the Roses by Emily Sarah Holt

Page 150 [150] INSCRIPTION FOR A ROLL OF HONOUR IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL Since to die nobly is Life's act supreme, And since our best and dearest thus have died, Across our cloud of grief a solemn gleam Of joy has struck, and all our tears are dried.
— from A Celtic Psaltery Being Mainly Renderings in English Verse from Irish & Welsh Poetry by Alfred Perceval Graves

Original I could give rare descriptions of snug junketing parties at which I have been present, where we played at All-Fours, Pope-Joan, Tom-come-tickle-me, and other choice old games, and where we sometimes had a good old English country dance to the tune of Sir Roger de Coverley.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

But Sully, overwhelmed, could only gasp and ejaculate.
— from The Historical Nights' Entertainment: Second Series by Rafael Sabatini

The other condition of growth is exercise.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren