The simple and maidenlike heart of a youth long preserves gratitude for the first sweets of love!
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

Pluck one of those precious gems from thy sister shrub and bid thy bridegroom wear it in his bosom.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Strange, therefore, as may seem to us the idea of a god incarnate in human form, it has nothing very startling for early man, who sees in a man-god or a god-man only a higher degree of the same supernatural powers which he arrogates in perfect good faith to himself.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

And though this federative power in the well or ill management of it be of great moment to the commonwealth, yet it is much less capable to be directed by antecedent, standing, positive laws, than the executive; and so must necessarily be left to the prudence and wisdom of those, whose hands it is in, to be managed for the public good: for the laws that concern subjects one amongst another, being to direct their actions, may well enough precede them.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

That evening we all mingled freely with the miners, and witnessed the process of cleaning up and "panning" out, which is the last process for separating the pure gold from the fine dirt and black sand.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

HESIOD: 'The Son of Atreus prayed greatly for them that they all might perish—' HOMER: 'At no time in the sea: and he opened his mouth said:' HESIOD: 'Eat, my guests, and drink, and may no one of you return home to his dear country—' HOMER: 'Distressed; but may you all reach home again unscathed.'
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

These causes seem to be other monopolies of different kinds: the degradation of the value of gold and silver below what it is in most other countries; the exclusion from foreign markets by improper taxes upon exportation, and the narrowing of the home market, by still more improper taxes upon the transportation of goods from one part of the country to another; but above all, that irregular and partial administration of justice which often protects the rich and powerful debtor from the pursuit of his injured creditor, and which makes the industrious part of the nation afraid to prepare goods for the consumption of those haughty and great men, to whom they dare not refuse to sell upon credit, and from whom they are altogether uncertain of repayment.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

It increases the productive powers of productive labour, by leaving it at liberty to confine itself to its proper employment, the cultivation of land; and the plough goes frequently the easier and the better, by means of the labour of the man whose business is most remote from the plough.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Already there was a port of MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, so you could play practically any game that had ever been written, all the way back to Pong -- games for the Apple ]
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

And in this case, the general presumptions go far to sustain the authority of Aristotle.
— from History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12) by George Grote

And all the battle the next day, until King Edward rides hot-trod to Berwick, leaving half his host dead upon this pleasant green field that lies so unremembering to the south of the castle.
— from The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark

But the day that our famous Signor Bragadin was summoned from his palace on the Giudecca to make his promised gold for the Signoria, I stood with the crowd in the Merceria to see him pass, with his
— from A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.

The creation of her Archduchy and her ennoblement were acknowledged, along with the creation of Family Cortin, as probably good for the new Archduchy and definitely good for the Family, an honor the Inquisitor-Colonel had earned, though she sensed the writer was relieved not to be in her fief.
— from The Alembic Plot: A Terran Empire novel by Ann Wilson

Here is Soult, with his dogged look and beetled brow; there stands Balzac the author, his gains here are less derived from the betting than the bettors; he is evidently making his own of some of them, while in the seeming bon hommie of his careless manners and easy abandon, they scruple not to trust him with anecdotes and traits, that from the crucible of his fiery imagination come forth, like the purified gold from the furnace.
— from The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 4 by Charles James Lever

Thus in all its aspects solution presents gradations from the most feeble affinities to examples of intimate chemical combination.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

The crews received a [212] reward of £3000 from the Admiralty; for £1000 was the prize given for the total destruction of one of these enemy submarines.
— from The Harwich Naval Forces: Their Part in the Great War by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight

Before he could recover from his amazement the coroner empaneled a jury, put the action of the insurance company in evidence and promptly got from the jury a verdict that "the said Bing came to his death at the hands of the Indians."
— from Elbow-Room: A Novel Without a Plot by Charles Heber Clark

Wherever the alleys cross in the bazaar, open cages are placed on pillars of carved marble or wood, and in these, charitable hands place grain for the birds; thus every evening, round these shelters there is a perpetual flutter of pigeons, minahs, and sparrows, pushing for places, and finally packed closely together, while the little lanterns flash out on all sides, giving a magical aspect to the shopfronts, turning copper to gold, fruit to flowers, and falling like a caress on the wayfarers in thin pale-hued robes.
— from Enchanted India by Bozidar Karadordevic

Meanwhile General Early was busy at Staunton, but not knowing my objective point, he had ordered the return of Echol's brigade from southwestern Virginia for the protection of Lynchburg, directed Lomax's cavalry to concentrate at Pond Gap for the purpose of harassing me if I moved toward Lynchburg, and at the same time marched Wharton's two brigades of infantry, Nelson's artillery, and Rosser's cavalry to Waynesboro', whither he went also to remain till the object of my movement was ascertained.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan