Punishments vary according to the quality of the crime.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

His imagination is a perfect volcano, and to make discoveries in the interests of geology he would sacrifice his life.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

PART V. ABOUT THE WIVES OF OTHER PEOPLE.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

The same authority mentions that in 1591 the Tzar Theodore Ivanovich made a present of a pelisse valued at the equivalent of 5000 silver rubels of modern Russian money, or upwards of 750_l.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

But to what good end is pain thus rendered possible? V. All things are either good or bad by comparison.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

The large group, in which were Prince Vasíli and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

We can only be impressed by the fact that the finest intellectual epoch of history was marked by a comparative absence of the manuscripts which were books to the Greeks, and if a further analysis of the lives of men of light and leading in all [Pg 238] ages should show that their devotion to the books of the period was slight, it will only accentuate the suspicion that even today we are still minus the right perspective between the printed volume and the thinking mind.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

As a Language Primer it develops a practical vocabulary and the power of reading and expression.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

In each of these families are two sons, just coming to the military age, who are not quite so prominent in the present volume as they will be in those which follow it.
— from Brother Against Brother; Or, The War on the Border by Oliver Optic

Public virtue appeared to him to have no longer any value in the eyes of the Romans.
— from The republic of Cicero Translated from the Latin; and Accompanied With a Critical and Historical Introduction. by Marcus Tullius Cicero

115 Vedas, doctrine of, 30 , 208 , 301 Vegetables for the kitchen, 228 , 229 Vegetable productions, see Plants Vijayapur, a town, capital of Morang, 133 , 137 , etc, 151 Vines, grape, 73 Vishnu, a deity, 32 , 281 , 302 , 310 Visi, a measure of land, 112 Viswanath, a noble family, 110 , 154 Wages , 233 Walnut tree, 83 War, 300 Water-spouts, 70 Weather, see Register at the end, Climate, Springs, temperature of, and also 64 , 71 , 89 , 196 , 199 , 203 , 205 , 242 , 277 , 284 , 301 , 307 , 313 , 314 , 315 Weavers, 232 Webb, Mr, his survey, 4 Weights, 215 , 290 Wheat, 226 , 282 , 297 , 301 , 305 Wool, 76 , 307 ; see also Shawl Woollen manufacture, 232 Women, condition of, 103 Yamapatri , a kind of melk land, 219 Yasawal, a lordship, 314 Yew tree, or Hingwalka bara Saral, 217 Yogimara, a town and military station, 183 , 184 , 193 Yuddha Vikram Sahi, king of Gorkha, 174 , 251 , 255 , 260 -262 Yumila, a principality, 15 , 129 , 174 , 237 , 239 , 240 , 250 , 276 , 280 , 282 , 293 , 294 , 298 Zedoary , a root, 99 Zemindar, a person holding land for rent, 112 , 115 , 149 Zemindar, a person managing the revenue of one or more landed estates, (Pergunahs,) 152 , 292 , 296 Zila, a considerable territory managed by a Subah, 151 , 161 , 162 , 168 Zinc, Dasta, or Tutenague, a metal, 76 , 195 , 264 , 272 ERRATA Which it is hoped the Reader will correct, and in some part excuse, as, owing to the Author’s residing at a distance from the Printer, the proof-sheets were once only revised, and this has been found totally inadequate to avoid numerous errors in printing so many foreign names.
— from An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Francis Hamilton

The rites of the people and priestes of this countrie, doo resemble much those of the kingdome of Syan: they haue amongst them many monasteries of men that liue honestly, solitarie, and with great penance, and people verie apt to receiue the holy gospell.
— from The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China and the Situation Thereof, Volume 2 (of 2) by Juan González de Mendoza

The book which describes the rusty emotions and toilsome lives of the Thrums weavers will always remain a book that has given me something, and the fact that mine is merely the popular view and that what I feel in it can be equally felt by the majority of fellow-creatures, this fact, such is my hardened and abandoned state, only makes me like the book more.
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

We saw how war spoke with a more powerful voice, and the women who had been snatching at power felt the quickening of a quite new spirit of humbleness.
— from Motherhood and the Relationships of the Sexes by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

His ecstasy the very foliage shook; The wood seemed hushed to hear, and hushed the brook; And even the heavens, wherein one star shone clear, Seemed leaning nearer, his glad song to hear, To which its wild star throbbed, all golden-pale: And after which, deep in the purple vale, Awoke the passion of the nightingale.
— from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 1 (of 5) Lyrics and old world idylls by Madison Julius Cawein

Although I had read scriptural accounts of maya , they had not given me the deep insight that came with the personal visions and their accompanying words of consolation.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Your name is followed by those of Maskelyne, Cavendish, Herschel, Priestly, Pallas, Volta, and three others.
— from The Royal Institution: Its Founder and First Professors by Bence Jones

Now all these people, vary as they might in church creeds, were united in a hearty admiration for plucky little Mrs. O'Callaghan.
— from The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys by Gulielma Zollinger