Among the Guaycuru in Paraguay the chief used to give new names to all the members of the tribe, on such sad occasions, which they then remembered as if they had always had them
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

The entire building being accomplished: in the tenth year, the solemnity of it fell into the twenty-eighth year of Herod's reign, and into the hundred and ninety-second olympiad.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

At last she turned away, hiding her disappointment and saying: “The Grapes are sour, and not ripe as I thought.” H2 anchor The Man and His Wife A MAN had a Wife who made herself hated by all the members of his household.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

His signal was returned, and in two hours afterwards the new-comer lay at anchor beside the yacht.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The French doctor held no taper; he was leaning against one of the columns in a respectful attitude implying that he, a foreigner, in spite of all differences of faith, understood the full importance of the rite now being performed and even approved of it.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Hark!—on the rock a footstep rung, And instant to his arms he sprung.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

I will return again into the house and desire some conduct of the lady.
— from Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare

If the more refined art is the higher, and the more refined in every case is that which appeals to the better sort of audience, the art which imitates anything and everything is manifestly most unrefined.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

I could not stay with him, but after dinner to work again, only the Committee and I, till dark night, and by that time they cast up all the lists, and found out what the medium of men was borne all the war, of all sorts, and ended with good peace, and much seeming satisfaction; but I find them wise and reserved, and instructed to hit all our blots, as among others, that we reckon the ships full manned from the beginning.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

How fortunate that he has not, like a sensitive, dull home body, remained always "in the house" and "at home!"
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

She looked away, saying with a sigh, "Thou art a Viracocha, Cristoval!" and left him pondering a riddle as insoluble to him as he was to her.
— from The Crimson Conquest: A Romance of Pizarro and Peru by Charles B. (Charles Bradford) Hudson

I could never calculate very readily and in the hurry and perplexity of the moment, I was always making mistakes.
— from The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott

I took her out of that life and married her because I believed she was as good a woman as any of those who had never had to work for their living, and I was bound that my friends and your friends should recognize her and respect her as my wife had a right to be respected; and I took her abroad that I might give all you sensitive, fine people a chance to get used to the idea of being polite to a woman who had once been a burlesque actress.
— from Episodes in Van Bibber's Life by Richard Harding Davis

She hurried from the place to her own room and into the hall, and from the hall to a small corridor, and from thence to the grand corridor, where opened the door of her mistress' ante-chamber.
— from Mistress Penwick by Dutton Payne

And then I told him jest how she had suffered from the Whisky Ring, and how she had suffered from not havin' her rights; and I told him all about her relations sufferin', and that Dorlesky wanted the Ring broke, and her rights gin to her, within seven days at the longest.
— from Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Marietta Holley

His room was one of the royal apartments in the Hradcany, and was most splendidly furnished with his own luxurious belongings: the floor was covered with a silk carpet; the walls hung with bright tapestry; the chairs were gilt and ash-wood; the many small tables held all manner of rich articles of gold, tortoiseshell, porcelain, and enamel, books richly bound, and caskets of sweets and preserved fruits.
— from The Quest of Glory by Marjorie Bowen

“The fellow run, and I took him at his word, Don Wan.
— from Jack Tier; Or, The Florida Reef by James Fenimore Cooper

Founded by Henry VII., it had had a glorious record of opposition to every reform and innovation that had assaulted its grey walls.
— from Robin Linnet by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

The city is growing very rapidly and in the high average of its home places is not excelled anywhere.
— from The Overland Route to the Road of a Thousand Wonders The Route of the Union Pacific & The Southern Pacific Railroads from Omaha to San Francisco, a Journey of Eighteen Hundred Miles Where Once the Bison & the Indian Reigned by Union Pacific Railroad Company. Passenger Department