'And then, with small adventure met, Sir Bors Rode to the lonest tract of all the realm, And found a people there among their crags, Our race and blood, a remnant that were left Paynim amid their circles, and the stones They pitch up straight to heaven: and their wise men Were strong in that old magic which can trace The wandering of the stars, and scoffed at him And this high Quest as at a simple thing: Told him he followed—almost Arthur's words— A mocking fire: "what other fire than he, Whereby the blood beats, and the blossom blows, And the sea rolls, and all the world is warmed?"
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Indeed our English blood too in good part is Danish, Norse; or rather, at bottom, Danish and Norse and Saxon have no distinction, except a superficial one,—as of Heathen and Christian, or the like.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

There is a most absurd and audacious method of reasoning avowed by some bigots and enthusiasts, and through fear assented to by some wiser and better men; it is this: they argue against a fair discussion of popular prejudices, because, say they, though they would be found without any reasonable support, yet the discovery might be productive of the most dangerous consequences.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Two observers of remarkable ability, Baldwin Spencer and F. J. Gillen, discovered [190] in the interior of the Australian continent a considerable number of tribes whose basis and unity was founded in totemic beliefs.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Let us suppose that a Boys’ School has been set up, with the following system of Rules:— “All boys in the First (the highest) Class are to do French, Greek, and Latin.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

So then, suddenly, his daughter would leap out, as though from a beleaguered city, would make a sortie, turn the street corner, and, having risked her life a hundred times over, reappear and bring us, with a jug of liquorice-water, the news that there were still at least a thousand of them, pouring along without a break from the direction of Thiberzy and Méséglise.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

But the strange part of it was that about three in the afternoon, while this gentleman and his friends were at dinner in the hotel, a terrific storm of rain, accompanied by thunder and lightning, broke forth and continued with dire fury for two or three hours.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Mordecai was placed by his parents with [524] pious and orthodox relatives at Brody, where he gained the interest of the famous rabbi of the town, Salomon Kluger, and through his teaching soon acquired a good Hebrew and Talmudical education.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

May we not believe that few persons, if any, can enjoy domestic bliss to its fullest extent, unless they have previously experienced all the wearisomeness, all the unmeaning bustle of the crowded, fashionable, common-place society of routs and balls?
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 by Henry Hunt

When one is comfortable, near a fire or within reach of one, and in company, winter is thought of as a time of activity, of glowing faces, of elements despised, and even a poetry book brings back the spring: one will run, or eat chestnuts, or read a book, or look at a picture to-morrow, and so the winter flies.
— from Beautiful Wales by Edward Thomas

But, at the same time, it seemed to me to be nothing but a conglomeration of racists, and bigots and so forth.
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

The ceremony included the stretching of a coco-nut fibre string, strung at intervals of a few feet with cowrie-shells, in token of Royal authority, between the Prince's chair and the men preparing the kava .
— from Down Under with the Prince by Everard Cotes

More than any he is the poet of passionate friendship and the poet of all those exquisite evasive emotions which arise when our loves and our regrets are blended with the presence of Nature.
— from One Hundred Best Books With Commentary and an Essay on Books and Reading by John Cowper Powys

The Stamp Office reaped a benefit which it is scarcely possible to estimate fully, while Bessemer did not receive a farthing.
— from Stories of Invention, Told by Inventors and their Friends by Edward Everett Hale

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— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

A Braided Raffia Lamp Mat Materials Required: A bunch of raffia, A bunch of coloured raffia, A tapestry needle, No. 19.
— from The Child's Rainy Day Book by Mary White

In the mid scenes, vast ranks of men sweep under your vision, and crash against opposing ranks, and break, and dissolve away in the hot swirl of battle.
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 1: From Celt to Tudor by Donald Grant Mitchell