I meantime at his feet obsequious slept; Not all-asleep in sleep, but heart and ear Prick'd up at his least motion; to receive At his kind hand ray customary crums, And common portion in his feast of scraps; Or when night warn'd us homeward, tired and spent With our long day and tedious beggary.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

I saw that I was just another Robinson Crusoe cast away on an uninhabited island, with no society but some more or less tame animals, and if I wanted to make life bearable I must do as he did—invent, contrive, create, reorganize things; set brain and hand to work, and keep them busy.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

In midwinter we heard of the approach of a battalion of the Second Dragoons, under Major Lawrence Pike Graham, with Captains Rucker, Coutts, Campbell, and others, along.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

ATHENIAN: Very true; and may we not say that in everything imitated, whether in drawing, music, or any other art, he who is to be a competent judge must possess three things;—he must know, in the first place, of what the imitation is; secondly, he must know that it is true; and thirdly, that it has been well executed in words and melodies and rhythms? CLEINIAS: Certainly. ATHENIAN: Then let us not faint in discussing the peculiar difficulty of music.
— from Laws by Plato

"He really isn't a man," rejoined Chia Chen, "accustomed to give much of his time to the practice of medicine, in order to earn rice for his support: and it's Feng Tzu-ying, who is so friendly with us, who is mainly to be thanked for succeeding, after ever so much trouble, in inducing him to come.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Before Roger Chillingworth could answer, they heard the clear, wild laughter of a young child's voice, proceeding from the adjacent burial-ground.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

N. Right common carotid artery cut at its origin.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

A red cloak, called also a roquelaire.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

When this status is accepted by the subject people, as is the case where the caste or slavery systems become fully established, [Pg 621] racial competition ceases and racial animosity tends to disappear.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

A man of energy and even of violence, born to make war, to ravage conquered countries and to massacre the vanquished, full of the savage instincts of the hunter and the fighter, he scarcely took count of human life.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Cutting down the tall trees, from two hundred fifty to four hundred fifty feet, required considerable care and skill.
— from Blazing the Way; Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Emily Inez Denny

A few comfit-makers made "Lemon Pil Candy, Angelica Candy, Candy'd Eryngo Root & Carroway Comfits;" and a few sweetmeats came to port in foreign vessels, "Sugar'd Corrinder Seeds," "Glaz'd Almonds," and strings of rock-candy.
— from Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle

One has only to compare the opinions of even average thinkers of our own day on such subjects as marriage, the status of woman, and the education of children, with the opinions, practically current without material change since the dawn of history, in 1800, to perceive the truth of this statement; and the change of attitude on the part of civilised people, outside the Roman Catholic Church (and, to some extent, even within it), towards religion is not less remarkable.
— from A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist by T. Baron Russell

But they waited for nearly half an hour, and the woods were dusky when at last their strained ears caught the regular creak, crunch, and shuffle of snowshoes in the distance.
— from Northern Diamonds by Frank Lillie Pollock

I have been walking, in the course of this day, hunting offices, records, &c., &c., above eight hours, and am not fatigued.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

Lastly, there was another element in the protest against foreign travel, which grew more and more strong towards the end of the reign of Elizabeth and the beginning of James the First's, the hatred of Italy as the stronghold of the Roman Catholic Church, and fear of the Inquisition.
— from English Travellers of the Renaissance by Clare Howard

Telephone system: domestic: large system of fiber-optic cable, microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, and domestic satellites international : 24 ocean cable systems in use; satellite earth stations - 61 Intelsat (45 Atlantic Ocean and 16 Pacific Ocean) (1990 est.), 5 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region), and 4 Inmarsat (Pacific and Atlantic Ocean regions) Radio broadcast stations: AM 4,987, FM 4,932, shortwave 0 Radios: 540.5 million (1992 est.)
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

From the road came creakings and grumblings as some surly guns were dragged away.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

So high a revelation can come at first only to souls which in their greatness are isolated, as the highest mountain peaks stand alone in the earliest sunbeams.
— from The Chief End of Man by George Spring Merriam

The priest is considered, in Roman Catholic countries, as the representative of Jesus Christ, the only depositary of true doctrine, the only dispenser of celestial favours, the agent of the supreme authority of the Pope,—in a word, the infallible oracle, to whose teachings the faith cannot be opposed, and whose mandates must not be resisted under penalty of incurring a mortal sin.
— from Roman Catholicism in Spain by Anonymous