Thou canst make cowardice brave, avarice generous, pride humble, and cruelty tender-hearted.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

The young people had also changed their clothes, except Telimena and a few who wore French attire.—This scene the Count had not understood, being unfamiliar with village customs; hence, amazed beyond measure, he ran full speed to the wood.
— 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

Chief Pocasse (or Hay) nearly opposit this creek a fiew miles from the river on the S. S. 2 Stones resembling humane persons & one resembling a Dog is Situated in the open Prarie, to those Stone the Rickores pay Great reverance make offerings whenever they pass (Infomtn. of the Chief & Intepeter) those people have a Curious Tredition of those Stones, one was a man in Love, one a Girl whose parents would not let marry, the Dog went to mourn with them all turned to Stone gradually, Commenceing at the feet.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

So for long hours sat Enid by her lord, There in the naked hall, propping his head, And chafing his pale hands, and calling to him.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Out of these they choose their ambassadors, their priests, their Tranibors, and the Prince himself, anciently called their Barzenes, but is called of late their Ademus.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

The pope had also claimed to have the right of disposing of all heathen and newly discovered lands and peoples.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Pyrites heat and cleanse, take away dimness of sight.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Such pillage he attributed chiefly to the people settled in forest-farms far from other men; by which he referred particularly to those who dwelt in Osterdal, for that district was very thinly inhabited, and full of lakes and forest-cleanings, and but in few places was any great neighbourhood together.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

His hair was quite white, his face more calm, more noble than when we parted; but his expression told of such perfect happiness and contentment that even to look at him brought a feeling of peace.
— from The Chariot of the Flesh by Hedley Peek

Not all the experiences he had had during many northern winters had prepared his Ashantee constitution to enjoy a norther.
— from The Noank's Log: A Privateer of the Revolution by William O. Stoddard

Why would I, in a strange counthry, and not a farthin' in my pocket!” “Have a civil tongue, then, and don't provoke me to turn you adrift on the world.”
— from One Of Them by Charles James Lever

Papa has a cottage there.”
— from Summer Days by George M. (George Melville) Baker

In solid geometry it is used only in a proposition relating to the volumes of two triangular pyramids having a common trihedral angle, and this is usually omitted.
— from The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith

During the lay-over, Straw had lost his place in the overland march, two herds having passed him and crossed the Beaver.
— from Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams

When Lucien heard how Bonaparte had expressed his displeasure at the pamphlet, he also came to the Tuileries to reproach his brother with having thrust him forward and then abandoned him.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

The very word pupil has almost come to mean one who is engaged not in having fruitful experiences but in absorbing knowledge directly.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

“They are not any the less mine because I am letting other people have a chance to enjoy them.”
— from K by Mary Roberts Rinehart