People laugh at them, and hustle them about, try to keep them out of sight, and expect them to turn all at once from pretty children into fine young men.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

V. As respects the private life and the manners of the citizens, they are intimately connected with the laws that constitute just marriages and legitimate offspring, under the protection of the guardian deities around the domestic hearths.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Do not imagine for a moment that I care a hang; but he is very much regretted at tennis-parties, and for my own sake I’ve told a plausible lie at the club. . . .”
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Antediluvians, the long life and great stature of, ii. 63 , etc.; the different computation of the ages of, given by the Hebrew and other mss. of the Old Testament, 65 , etc.; the opinion of those who believe they did not live so long as is stated, considered, 68 ; [Pg 555] was the age of puberty later among, than it is now?
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

When anything particularly difficult or nasty had to be done—to push a cart out of the mud with one’s shoulders, pull a horse out of a swamp by its tail, skin it, slink in among the French, or walk more than thirty miles in a day—everybody pointed laughingly at Tíkhon.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

When the aorta sinks below its proper level at the same time that the vessels
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

We returned, with our prizes lashed alongside, to the anchorage under the island of Sakura Jima, whither the squadron had removed on the afternoon of the 12th in order to be out of range of the guns in the forts before the town, the "Euryalus" and "Pearl" lying about mid channel, between us and the forts.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

It is considered a perfect likeness, and the best work of the master."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

She had taken a few piano lessons at the Perkins Institution.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

The memorial cups alluded to were of earthenware, specially manufactured by Messrs. Doulton and Sons, at their potteries, Lambeth, and they had on one side a portrait of the Queen as she was at her Accession in 1837, and on the other a portrait of her at her Jubilee in 1887.
— from Hyde Park from Domesday-book to Date by John Ashton

But no animal has the three higher “principles” awakened in him; they are simply potential, latent, and thus non-existing .
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

It was a trial from which her whole nature shrank, to go among the people, to face the eyes, to exchange talk with the lips that were at home in those purlieus; look at them she did not.
— from Queechy, Volume II by Susan Warner

I dreaded that your enemies, the greater number of whom are also mine, might have misrepresented that interview; but, fortunately, he paid little attention to it.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 08 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

On the 12th of November, 1890, Mr. Kent was united in marriage to Miss Delia A. Lyons, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. Lyons, and to them were born four children: Ruth, the wife of Harry Paxton, Jr.; John Paul, Mildred Agnes and Omer James, all of whom are living in Walla Walla.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

The President of the Ministry had practically retired from political life and the Government had no longer a leader.
— from Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by James Wycliffe Headlam

Lavrétzky and Liza caught fewer than the others; this, probably, resulted from the fact that they paid less attention than the rest to their fishing, and allowed their floats to drift close inshore.
— from A Nobleman's Nest by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

For this reason Euphrates was right in saying, "I long endeavoured to conceal my following the philosophic life; and this profited me much.
— from The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, with the Hymn of Cleanthes by Epictetus

Think through whom Thy life-blood tracks its parent lake, And then strike home!
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson