It exhibits, as that inscription does, the effect of Chinese temperament or language, in modifying or diluting doctrinal statements.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Every moment was drive, drive, drive, and Joe was the masterful shepherd of moments, herding them carefully, never losing one, counting them over like a miser counting gold, working on in a frenzy, toil-mad, a feverish machine, aided ably by that other machine that thought of itself as once having been one Martin Eden, a man.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

THE FALSE WARRIORS OF CHILHOWEE Some warriors of Chilhowee town, on Little Tennessee, organized a war party, as they said, to go against the Shawano.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught lyre / None but the noblest passions to inspire, / Not one immoral, one corrupted thought, / One line which, dying, he could wish to blot.
— 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.

Nor would it now be deemed worthy of such were the only considerations those of literary merit or intrinsic value: truth to tell there is little of either to recommend it.
— from The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo by Thomas Nash

Page 204 , “Innesigenes” changed to “Mnesigenes” (Aristides, Mnesigenes, Hippocrates) Page 204 , “Olympicus” changed to “Olympichus” (let Iræus calculate with Olympichus) Page 204 , “Ausinias” changed to “Aminias” (with Olympichus and Aminias) Page 204 , “Philoreatos” changed to “Philocrates” (Philocrates, the son of Tisamenus)
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

I had always understood from our charters that our laws were to be made by our Assemblies, to be presented indeed to the king for his royal assent, but that being once given the king could not repeal or alter them.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

“When the class of the Nobility were supplanted in France, they did not amount in number to one-third of us Hand-Loom weavers; yet all Europe went to war to avenge their wrongs, every state subscribed to maintain them in their adversity, and when they were restored to their own country, their own land supplied them with an immense indemnity.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

And some of us because of our every-daily sins: for we hold not our Covenants, nor keep we our cleanness that our Lord setteth us in, but fall oftentimes into so much wretchedness that shame it is to see it.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

The Father seeing himself entirely rid of Theodosius, and likely to keep a considerable Portion in his Family, was not very much concerned at the obstinate Refusal of his Daughter; and did not find it very difficult to excuse himself upon that Account to his intended Son-in-law, who had all along regarded this Alliance rather as a Marriage of Convenience than of Love.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

When I add that we have an unparalleled number of miles of paved streets, bathrooms vacuum cleaners, and all the other signs of civilization; that our library and art museum are well supported and housed in convenient and roomy buildings; that our park-system is more than up to par, with its handsome driveways adorned with grass, shrubs, and statuary, then I give but a hint of the all round unlimited greatness of Zenith!
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

‘Sad it is, that it is seemingly the will of our constituencies that our laws shall prefer the few to the many.
— from Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller

“No. Not a man, woman, or child thinks of locking doors, out in that wild country.
— from Nelly's First Schooldays by Josephine Franklin

In this way, perhaps, he may grow aware of certain truths of life which are materials for fiction.
— from Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Clayton Meeker Hamilton

Full of concern, the old lady bustled along from 229 the kitchen.
— from Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls by Margaret Bruce Clarke

And we’ve got plenty of flowers to make the room bright, you see: I’m very fond of flowers myself, mum: seems to me as if they was sort of company to one, like, and when you water ‘em and tend ‘em always, I feel as if they was alive, and got to know one again, I do, and that makes one love ‘em, now don’t it, mum?
— from Philistia by Grant Allen

"Of course that only leaves me on board, and I'm a jolly [Pg 286] sight too tired to stand an anchor watch.
— from The Pearl Fishers by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

It was a favorite turn in the mediaeval legends of charity that our Lord should reveal himself, even in the body, to those who had, for his love, consoled some poor object of compassion.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various