A scholar, an adventurer, perhaps a Cabalist, a busy stirrer in politics, a gamester, one ‘born for the fairer sex,’ as he tells us, and born also to be a vagabond; this man, who is remembered now for his written account of his own life, was that rarest kind of autobiographer, one who did not live to write, but wrote because he had lived, and when he could live no longer.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Harper's Camping and Scouting Grinnell & Swan How to Swim Dalton Knotting and Splicing Ropes and Cordage Hasluck Plates Accompanying Canoe and Boat Building for Amateurs Forest & Stream Pub.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

It need hardly be said that a man far less credulous and simple-hearted than Mr. Prohartchin would have been puzzled and carried away by a rumour so unanimously believed.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When the envoys appeared before the people, and upon the question being put to them, did not say as they had said in the senate, that they had come with full powers, the Athenians lost all patience, and carried away by Alcibiades, who thundered more loudly than ever against the Lacedaemonians, were ready instantly to introduce the Argives and their companions and to take them into alliance.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Although compromises were now necessary, he remained a man of principle and the Fourteen Points a contract absolutely binding upon him.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

[pg 386] CHAPTER XXXIII CAPTURE OF WAKAMATSU AND ENTRY OF THE MIKADO INTO YEDO November 6th was celebrated with much pomp and ceremony as being the Mikado's birthday.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

American society feared total wreck in the maelstrom of political and corporate administration, but it could not look for help to college dons.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

His razor, plate, and can, and basin, hang upon the wall, or shine upon the little shelf.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

In answer to one question, he sketched his brother's character as that of a man, violent-tempered perhaps and carried away by his passions, but at the same time honorable, proud and generous, capable of self-sacrifice, if necessary.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Great wits are allied to madness only inasmuch as they are possessed and carried away by their demon, while talent keeps him, as Paracelsus did, securely prisoned in the pommel of his sword.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

This practice regularly adhered to, will also promote a collateral advantage, by acting as a security against the too keen sharpening of appetite that tends to repletion in eating, and which sometimes produces results similar to those exhibited by a boa-constrictor after dining upon a whole buffalo, swallowed without the previous ceremony of carving!
— from The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Margaret C. (Margaret Cockburn) Conkling

(The king's) counsels and plans are crooked and bad; When will he stop (in his course)?
— from The Shih King, or, Book of Poetry From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 by James Legge

You see, the Spiritualists do not believe in eternal pain, and consequently a belief in immortality does not fill their hearts with fear.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

“Oh, but I meant parrots and cockatoos and birds of paradise,” said the lad hurriedly.
— from Jack at Sea: All Work and No Play Made Him a Dull Boy by George Manville Fenn

With regard to this, I observe, that society, merely as society, without any particular heightenings, gives us no positive pleasure in the enjoyment; but absolute and entire solitude , that is, the total and perpetual exclu Page 140 sion from all society, is as great a positive pain as can almost be conceived.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

It was not until after Halleck sent Buell to seize upon the strategic position at Chattanooga, and Bragg, seventeen days later, withdrew his main body from Grant's front and set out by the roundabout way of Mobile to anticipate Buell, that the war in that part of the country again assumed strategic and historical importance.
— from The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume 2 (of 2) A Narrative and Critical History by George Cary Eggleston

As they ran they cried at the pitch of their voices: “ Bear apples, bear pears, and cherries all black To Scouvion! ”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Baring-Gould says of Launceston, "Scarcely [Pg 131] another English town has such a picturesque and continental appearance," but that is a matter of opinion.
— from Cornwall by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

6 b ), from the surface of attachment, quite close to the end, but not at the actual apex, the larval prehensile antennæ can always be found: these have been sufficiently described for our present purpose under the head of the Metamorphoses; but I may add, that the diagnostic differences between them in the several genera are briefly given, for a special purpose, in a discussion on the sexes of Scalpellum at the end of that genus.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

His eyes were of that common no-colour type, and might or might not have been pigmented, and classifiable as brown or blue—Dr. Broca himself would not have been able to decide.
— from Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson