And there was reserved for Professor Hardwigg a brilliant and sudden surprise which was to compensate him for all his sufferings.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Thus speaking, he next dons the plumed helmet and beautifully blazoned shield of Androgeus, and fits the Argive sword to his side.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

His aspect was perfectly that of a pilgrim, heightened also by an apostolic dignity.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[26] The miraculous powers here ascribed by Odin to himself bear, in many instances, a remarkable similarity to those attributed to him by Snorri.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

uld, most probably, have arisen between the brother and sister; between whom education and sex made the only difference; for both were equally violent and equally positive: they had both a vast affection for Sophia, and both a sovereign contempt for each other.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The right of the first occupier, though more real than the right of the strongest, becomes a real right only when the right of property has already been established.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mantiniri (mantinihi) lag kawáyan pára halígi ang balay, Just use bamboo for the meantime as a post for the house.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Pouting has also been observed with the Chinese, Abyssinians, Malays of Malacca, Dyaks of Borneo, and often with the New Zealanders.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

For this purpose huts are built by order of the medicine-men, who there consummate the sacred marriage with the credulous female devotees.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Peter had a birthday—his tenth.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The process has already been described.
— from Psychology: A Study Of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth

He was given two rooms on the second floor; I served as his assistant; he was perfectly happy at being at last able to give himself up in peace to his work.
— from Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845-1916 by Olga Metchnikoff

26 A new grand mingling of peoples had already begun or was in its last stages of preparation already advancing from afar in successive waves.
— from The New Stone Age in Northern Europe by John M. (John Mason) Tyler

This possibility had already been spoken of in the press, though the family had not dared hope too much from the suggestion.
— from The Nest Builder: A Novel by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

Those made with Great Britain, Finland, Hungary Lithuania, and Poland have already been approved by the Congress.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Calvin Coolidge

He has been sent here by a good gentleman who gave the prize, but he costs nobody else anything at all, and his name is Bo-peep: and what father and I think is this: that we might presently have a basket chair got and Bo-peep could draw you about the grounds.
— from The Little School-Mothers by L. T. Meade

As a matter of fact, they had been discussed by Taylor in 1853; by Pattison in 1860; and by Farrar in 1862; and they have since been discussed at length by Dr. Hunt, by Dr. Cairns, by Lange, by Gyzicki, by M. Sayous, by Sir Leslie Stephen, by Prof. Höffding, and by many others.
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

According to another school of writers—mainly authors of personal reminiscences at a time when growing antagonism was accentuating the difference in ideals—the "greaser" was a dirty, idle, shiftless, treacherous, tawdry vagabond, dwelling in a disgracefully primitive house, and backward in every aspect of civilization.
— from The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado by Stewart Edward White