He pondered for a while, then broke The silence, and thus calmly spoke: “Forth from thy sides again shall spring, O royal bird, each withered wing, And all thine ancient power and might Return to thee with strength of sight.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Thus the basis of natural right of property does not require the assumption of two grounds of right beside each other, that based on detention and that based on formation ; but the latter is itself sufficient.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

What would you say again to the tale of Zeus, who, while other gods and men were asleep and he the only person C awake, lay devising plans, but forgot them all in a moment through his lust, and was so completely overcome at the sight of Here that he would not even go into the hut, but wanted to lie with her on the ground, declaring that he had never been in such a state of rapture before, even when they first met one another ‘Without the knowledge of their parents 23 ;’ 74 The indecent tale of Ares and Aphrodite.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Our repast being ended, I took my leave of the ladies, and at parting received a letter from Donna Estifania to her husband, together with a ring of great value, which she begged I would accept, as a token of her esteem.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Under all this running sea of circumstance, whose waters ebb and flow with perfect balance, lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being. Essence, or God, is not a relation, or a part, but the whole.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

This affix is productive in Leyte and in other regions, but elsewhere almost unknown.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

more Stone on the sides of the hill, grass but a few inches high and but few flowers in the Plains, great quantites of Choke Cheries, Goose burres, red & yellow berries, & red & Purple Currents on the edges of water Courses in bottoms & damp places, about my Camp the Cliffs or bluffs are a hard red or redish brown earth Containing Iron.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Will could not omit Thorwaldsen, a living celebrity about whom even Mr. Casaubon inquired, but before the day was far advanced he led the way to the studio of his friend Adolf Naumann, whom he mentioned as one of the chief renovators of Christian art, one of those who had not only revived but expanded that grand conception of supreme events as mysteries at which the successive ages were spectators, and in relation to which the great souls of all periods became as it were contemporaries.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Not one was absent, not a rural power That haunts the verdant gloom, or rosy bower; Each fair-hair'd dryad of the shady wood, Each azure sister of the silver flood; All but old Ocean, hoary sire!
— from The Iliad by Homer

But he did not spare other religious bodies either.
— from The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright

And the suspicion that perhaps they were wrong has preyed on the Jewish mind ever since, and has often pricked them on to a fierce hatred of the Christian name, while sometimes it has taken almost the form of penitence, as in the prayer of Rabbi Ben Ezra,— “Thou!
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods

She got [146] an impression of a pair of round blue eyes, that stared at her as if taking her all in, and a crop of short chestnut curls.
— from Loyal to the School by Angela Brazil

This kind of legislation will appear incredible to all those who are ignorant of the irregularities of the court of Rome; but every person who has lived in Spain knows that it is of daily occurrence.
— from Roman Catholicism in Spain by Anonymous

Indeed we have had some small Differences with the English , and, during these Misunderstandings, some of their young Men would, by way of Reproach, be every now and then telling us, that we should have perished if they had not come into the Country and furnished us with Strowds and Hatchets, and Guns, and other Things necessary for the Support of Life; but we always gave them to understand that they were mistaken, that we lived before they came amongst us, and as well, or better, if we may believe what our Forefathers have told us.
— from Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New-York For encouragement of the Indian trade, &c. and for prohibiting the selling of Indian goods to the French, viz. of Canada by Cadwallader Colden

The -340- -vol i- High Commission court now began to take cognisance of what was called recusancy, or the refusal to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy; it also encouraged informations against such as refrained from joining in the established worship; and numerous professors of the old religion, both ecclesiastics and laity, were summoned on one account or other before this tribunal.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

Bahamas, The: Bahamian dollars per US dollar - 1.000 (fixed rate pegged to the dollar) Bahrain: Bahraini dinars per US dollar - 0.3760 (fixed rate pegged to the US dollar) Bangladesh: taka per US dollar - 54.000 (January 2001), 52.142 (2000), 49.085 (1999), 46.906 (1998), 43.892 (1997), 41.794 (1996) Barbados: Barbadian dollars per US dollar - 2.0000 (fixed rate pegged to the US dollar) Belarus: Belarusian rubles per US dollar - 1,180 (yearend 2000), 730,000 (15 December 1999), 139,000 (25 January 1999), 46,080 (second quarter 1998), 25,964 (1997), 15,500 (yearend 1996); note - on 1 January 2000, the national currency was redenominated at one new ruble to 2,000 old rubles Belgium: euros per US dollar - 1.0659 (January 2001), 1.0854 (2000), 0.9386 (1999); Belgian francs per US dollar - 34.77 (January 1999), 36.229 (1998), 35.774 (1997), 30.962 (1996) Belize: Belizean dollars per US dollar - 2.0000 (fixed rate pegged to the US dollar) Benin: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar - 699.21 (January 2001), 711.98 (2000), 615.70 (1999), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997), 511.55 (1996); note - from 1 January 1999, the XOF is pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 XOF per euro Bermuda: Bermudian dollar per US dollar - 1.0000 (fixed rate pegged to the US dollar) Bhutan: ngultrum per US dollar - 46.540 (January 2001), 44.942 (2000), 43.055 (1999), 41.259 (1998), 36.313 (1997), 35.433 (1996); note - the Bhutanese ngultrum is at par with the Indian rupee which is also legal tender Bolivia: bolivianos per US dollar - 6.4071 (January 2001), 6.1835 (2000), 5.8124 (1999), 5.5101 (1998), 5.2543 (1997), 5.0746 (1996)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The other fixed him with a stare of round blue eyes.
— from The Storm Centre: A Novel by Mary Noailles Murfree

In studying them more closely, I became convinced that they lived on relics, bored each other, and the frequent invitations which I received after my first call proved that my conclusions were correct.
— from The Confession of a Fool by August Strindberg

The verses may almost be checked by the Cosmogony, as given by Berosus, which has been disfigured out of recognition by Eusebius, but some of the features of which may yet be found in fragments left by ancient Greek authors—Apollodorus, Alexander Polyhistor, etc.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky