proud enough whatever else they were; and could maintain to the end a kind of virtual Presidency and Sovereignty in that wild realm, he who was only "a subject born within the same:" this of itself will prove to us that he was found, close at hand, to be no mean acrid man; but at heart a healthful, strong, sagacious man.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Panchadaçī , ed. with Eng. trans., Bombay, 1895.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Bring with thee murky fogs from hell, which may drink up the day; bring blight and pestiferous exhalations, which, entering the hollow caverns and breathing places of earth, may fill her stony veins with corruption, so that not only herbage may no longer flourish, the trees may rot, and the rivers run with gall—but the everlasting mountains be decomposed, and the mighty deep putrify, and the genial atmosphere which clips the globe, lose all powers of generation and sustenance.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Methinks I see these things with parted eye, When every thing seems double.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He dared not leave her; he dared not ask her to accompany him back to Oxford, which had been one of the plans he had formed on the journey to Milton, her physical exhaustion was evidently too complete for her to undertake any such fatigue—putting the sight that she would have to encounter out of the question.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The thunder-peals were constant and deafening; explosion followed explosion with but inconsequential intervals between, and the reports grew steadily sharper and higher-keyed, and more trying to the ear; the lightning was as diligent as the thunder, and produced effects which enchanted the eye and sent electric ecstasies of mixed delight and apprehension shivering along every nerve in the body in unintermittent procession.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

From the middle of the third century before Christ, when the Parthian empire was established, till towards the middle of the third century of our era, when the Persian monarchy and religion were once more restored [433] , its influence must have been reduced within the narrowest limits.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

I see these things with parted eye, When every thing seems double.
— from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

A very large number of the old screens remain, ornamented with the arms of Elizabeth or James I. Proceeding eastward we enter the chancel, so called because it is inclosed with cancelli , or the lattice-work of the screen.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

The battle-ground of the fight between low and high pressure from 1806 to 1812 had also served for the personal encounter of Trevithick, sen., and Watt a quarter of a century before, when the Dolcoath great pumping engine was erected to compete with the two [Pg 147] earlier atmospherics; all three were still at work, overlooked by Carn Brea hill and castle, once the resort of Druid priests, whose sacrificial rites are still traced, by the hollows and channels for the blood of victims on the granite rocks.
— from Life of Richard Trevithick, with an Account of His Inventions. Volume 2 (of 2) by Francis Trevithick

Their faces are almost uniformly of the finest classic mould, and illuminated by pairs of those dark swimming and propitiatory eyes, which exhaust the language of tenderness and passion at a glance.
— from The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished by Henry Charles Carey

This produced enigmas, which exercised the imagination of the big girls, such as: "Ah! how agreeable the drummer is!"
— from Les Misérables, v. 4/5: The Idyll and the Epic by Victor Hugo

In the rear was the billiard and pool equipment, which entitled the place to the name "pool-room."
— from The Ramblin' Kid by Earl Wayland Bowman

Poor Edna was engaged to marry that boy whom you, with that accursed woman, fleeced with such audacity.
— from The Voice from the Void: The Great Wireless Mystery by William Le Queux

It was suggested in the orders that "in all foraging the parties engaged will endeavor to leave with each family a reasonable portion for their maintenance."
— 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

Meanwhile Prince Eugene was expected to pay a visit to England, bringing fresh proposals for war, and stimulating by his presence the enthusiasm of the Whigs.
— from Swift by Leslie Stephen

Dr. Pusey endeavours, without even the smallest success, to show that many things said of Antiochus in this book do not apply to him.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

There still remained a rugged and clownish soldier,—half-fanatic, half-buffoon,—whose talents [pg 142] discerned as yet only by one penetrating eye, were equal to all the highest duties of the soldier and the prince.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832 by Various