She threw herself on it, as if it had been some prey, and kissed it so violently that it began to scream with terror; and then she began to cry herself, because it did not know her, and stretched out its arms to its nurse as soon as it saw her.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

For it stands to reason that as Joseph’s splendid financial ingenuities advantaged nobody but the king, the general public must have regarded him with a good deal of disfavor, whereas I had done my entire public a kindness in sparing the sun, and was popular by reason of it.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Nor would it be hard, in that case, to point out what superstition, what fantastic obsession, or what private fury, had made those persons blind to prudence and kindness in so plain a matter.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

By Sir Lucius Carie. P OETS attend, the Elegie I sing Both of a doubly-named Priest, and King: In stead of Coates, and Pennons, bring your Verse, For you must bee chiefe mourners at his Hearse,
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

The bow of the boat naturally turns toward the wind, thus relieving the sail of all pressure and keeping it shaking.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

485 "Triads of Britain", 93 "Tristan and Isolde", 423 Troubadours, 121 "Trovatore, Il", 485 Tschaikowsky, 499 Verdi, 483 "Vestale, La", 478 Vina, 71 Viol da Gamba, 164 Violin Making, 195 Violin, Stradivarius, 199 Virtuosity, 378 Virtuoso Element, 19th Century, 428 Vitry, Philippe de, 157 Wagner, 416 Wagner and Berlioz, 434 Wagner, "Die Walküre", 420 Weber, 406 Weber as Pianist, 410 , 437 Weber's Influence on Piano Playing, 410 Weimar, Liszt at, 449 Welsh, Music of, 93 Wieck, 467 Wilhelm, Count, Troubadour, 121 Willaert, Adrien, 171 Winchester, Organ at, 98 "Zampa", 490 Zarlino, 171 , 257 Zelter, 457 Zingarelli, 348 Transliteration of the Greek lyrics to the Pythic Ode : PINDAROU PYTHIONIKAI A' Chrysea phorminx, Apollônos kai ioplokamôn syndikon Moisan kteanon, tas akouei men basis aglaïas archa, peithontai d' aoidoi samasin, hagêsichorôn hopotan prooimiôn ambolas teuchêis elelizomena.
— from A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews

For men are cowards all, except when in the heat of battle they follow the pursuit of their own brief glory! … poltroons and knaves in spirit, incapable of resisting their own passions!
— from Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self by Marie Corelli

Lawrence was irritated that she should so immediately react into what he called the old conventional habit toward blind people, and keep it standing like a stupid but solid wall between all their talk.
— from Claire: The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, by a Blind Author by Leslie Burton Blades

"In their place," he says, in his tablets in the halls of his palace at Khorsabad, "I settled the men of countries conquered
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

The inviolability of kings and the responsibility of ministers, those two fundamental maxims of a free monarchy, had already become fixed ideas; but how were they to be taken advantage of and put in practice when the institutions whereby political liberty exerts its powers and keeps itself secure were not in force?
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by François Guizot

It is not, however, those who possess the strongest passions that are endowed with the strongest principles, unless when it happens that these passions are kept in subjection by religion or reason.
— from The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

“Are you a partisan of his?” “I come from Frankfort; have seen the Prince, and know I speak the truth.”
— from The Sword Maker by Robert Barr

In such a ceremony performed at Khurai in Saugor one of the participators was already a Seth, and in recognition of his great liberality a new title was devised and he became Srimant Seth.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

vii Preface (Anne Knish) ix SPECTRA BY EMANUEL MORGAN OPUS PAGE 1 Drums 53 2 Hope 14 6 If I Were Only Dafter 56 7 A Bunch of Grapes 8 9 Frogs' Legs on a Plate 57 13 A Peacock-Feather 11 14 I Had Put Out My Leaves 51 15 Despair Comes 6 16
— from Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments by Witter Bynner