The virtuous soul is pure and unmixed light, springing from the body as a flash of lightning darts from the cloud; the soul that is carnal and immersed in sense, like a heavy and dank vapour, can with difficulty be kindled, and caused to raise its eyes heavenward.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

la sed, observaron por casualidad una piedra que se parecía a una lápida sepulcral.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

For, as there are three kinds of life, the practical, the contemplative, and the life of enjoyment, and of these three the one devoted to enjoyment is a paltry and animal life, and the practical without philosophy an unlovely and harsh life, and the contemplative without the practical a useless life, so we must endeavour with all our power to combine public life with philosophy as far as circumstances will permit.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Eclipses of the sun also take place which are portentous and unusually long, such as occurred when Cæsar the Dictator was slain, and in the war against Antony, the sun remained dim for almost a whole year 306 .
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

exterus, -a, -um , outward ( exterior, -ius , outer ) extrēmus, -a, -um ( extimus, -a, -um ) outermost, last īnferus, -a, -um , low īnferior, -ius , lower īnfimus, -a, -um īmus, -a, -um lowest posterus, -a, -um , next ( posterior, -ius , later ) postrēmus, -a, -um ( postumus, -a, -um ) last superus, -a, -um , above superior, -ius , higher suprēmus, -a, -um summus, -a, -um highest 313.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

exterus, -a, -um , outward ( exterior, -ius , outer ) extrêmus, -a, -um ( extimus, -a, -um ) outermost, last înferus, -a, -um , low înferior, -ius , lower înfimus, -a, -um îmus, -a, -um lowest posterus, -a, -um , next ( posterior, -ius , later ) postrêmus, -a, -um ( postumus, -a, -um ) last superus, -a, -um , above superior, -ius , higher suprêmus, -a, -um summus, -a, -um highest 313.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Delicious in her phantom and unfinished life, she smiled at me from her frameless canvas.
— from The Blue Duchess by Paul Bourget

phenols are usually less satisfactory in odour, the high proportion of phenols being obtained at the expense of the decomposition of some of the sesquiterpene.
— from The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W. H. (William Herbert) Simmons

If the price of wheat falls so low that his means of expenditure are greatly reduced, he tells you that if this lasts he cannot possibly go on as a country-gentleman; and every well-bred person amongst us looks sympathising and shocked.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, April 1885 by Various

The old Mason , the Gardener , the Stone-Cutter , and other figures appearing in the play are undoubtedly lifted straight out of real life—and so are probably also the exploded family reputation and the cheap table painted to represent ebony—although one may take for granted that the process has not taken place without a proper disguising of externals.
— from Plays by August Strindberg, Third Series by August Strindberg

At the present day, as a rule, when a girl puts up her hair her petticoats are usually lengthened simultaneously.
— from The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes by Wilfred Mark Webb

His pupils and followers either plodded along unimaginatively, like Sérusier, or drifted off into academicism, like Bernard, or watered down their technique into the tasteless picture-book and stage-costume decoration of Maurice Denis.
— from Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art by John Gould Fletcher

Ophiologists in deciding species, etc., enumerate those which are more than a pair as ‘upper labials’ so many, ‘lower labials’ so many.
— from Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley

In July 1516 Zayla was taken, and the town burned by a Portuguese armament, under Lopez Suarez Alberguiera.
— from First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir