Then the stork told them all about warm Africa, of the pyramids, and of the ostrich, which, like a wild horse, runs across the desert.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

240.—THE UNION JACK.— solution There are just sixteen points (all on the outside) where three roads may be said to join.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Because he is not rooted in the peculiar attitudes and biased tendencies of the group, he stands apart from all these with the peculiar attitude of the "objective," which does not indicate simply a separation and disinterestedness but is a peculiar composition of nearness and remoteness, concern and indifference.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Cobden and Bright finally became potent advocates of truths of which they were in no sense the discoverers.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It is indeed perhaps nowhere good form, if another is asked a favour, to push him aside and undertake to grant it ourselves; for we shall seem so to upbraid two people at once, the one who was asked as not able to grant the favour, and the other as not knowing how to ask in the right quarter.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

On one side was a table occupied by some chattering girls, cutting up silk and gold paper; and on the other were tressels and trays, bending under the weight of brawn and cold pies, where riotous boys were holding high revel; the whole completed by a roaring Christmas fire, which seemed determined to be heard, in spite of all the noise of the others.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

Each presented advantages over the other, with corresponding objections.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

He then recounted all his acts of despotism, the illegal execution of Philotas, the still more illegal one of his father Parmenio and of the others who were put to death at that time, the murder of Clitus in a fit of drunkenness, his assumption of the Median garb, the introduction of the ceremony of prostration, which had been planned and not yet relinquished, and the drinking-bouts and lethargic sleep arising from them, to which he was addicting himself.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Any strong sensation whatever produces accommodation of the organs which perceive it, and absolute oblivion, for the time being, of the task in hand.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

In opposition to the fanatics Luther is fond of tracing back his own great illumination, which had brought salvation to the world, to the preliminary action, of the outward Word of Holy Scripture on his mind.
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Eh! may I never intone another alleluia in the choir, if I would not have kissed her, in spite of the grey which is making its way through the old wool which covers my pate, and of the old woman beside me, like a thorn in my side!
— from Taras Bulba, and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Charlie's clothes had been unceremoniously tumbled out upon deck, which was not calculated to improve their appearance, and the captain and mate, who had shown themselves particularly active on the occasion, were peering about in search of the lost ring.
— from Charlie Codman's Cruise: A Story for Boys by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

At this stage—the question being much complicated by subsequent restorations—the effort to draw the line accurately between the work of the master on one hand and that of his able and pious assistant on the other, would be unprofitable.
— from The Later Works of Titian by Phillips, Claude, Sir

Up on the windswept plateaus, in the boundless stretch of the grasslands and the waterless tracts of the desert, where he roams with his flocks from pasture to pasture and oasis to oasis, where life knows much hardship but escapes the grind of drudgery, where the watching of grazing herds gives him leisure for contemplation, and the wide-ranging life a big horizon, his ideas take on a certain gigantic simplicity; religion becomes monotheism, God becomes one, unrivalled like the sand of the desert, and the grass of the steppe, stretching on and on without break or change.
— from Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 2 of 2 by John Wilson Townsend

Its front faces on one side towards the Piazza di San Pietro, and on the other with a very nearly similar elevation towards the Piazza del Pallone, one of the courts in the vast palace of the Gonzagas, of which it forms a part.
— from Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of Tours in the North of Italy by George Edmund Street

The fats and oils used should not be rancid, for, on the one hand, the bad odor arising from rancidity is troublesome in perfuming, and, on the other, what is of still greater importance, rancid fat injuriously affects the scalp and the growth of the hair.
— from A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery Comprising directions for making all kinds of perfumes, sachet powders, fumigating materials, dentrifices, cosmetics, etc., etc., with a full account of the volatile oils, balsams, resins, and other natural and artificial perfume-substances, including the manufacture of fruit ethers, and tests of their purity by C. (Carl) Deite

But in its origin the -mancipatio- must be far more ancient; for it primarily applies only to objects which are acquired by grasping with the hand, and must therefore in its earliest form have belonged to the epoch when property consisted essentially in slaves and cattle (-familia pecuniaque-).
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen