He will not devise or undertake anything,” thought Prince Andrew, “but he will hear everything, remember everything, and put everything in its place.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In the next place, the strict rule is not confined to nautae, caupones, and stabularii, nor even to common carriers; but is applied to all bailees for reward, exercising a public calling.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

This chemically controlled research evolved a product which, after passing through the laboratory stage, was placed upon a small unit plan basis, and then patented.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

She was plunged in a state of ecstasy, when suddenly, from the rear of the artificial rockery, egressed a person, who approached her and facing her said, "My respects to you, sister-in-law."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

The poets describe this ethereal atmosphere as bright, glistening, and refreshing, exercising a peculiar, gladdening influence over the minds and hearts of those privileged beings permitted to share its delights.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is actuated by pure love.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

As acquaintances, formed during a journey, are not recognized afterwards, unless mutually agreeable, do not refuse either a pleasant word or any little offer of service from your companions; and, on the other hand, be ready to aid them, if in your power.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

He often studied his records, examining and poring over them with absorbing interest until far into the night; but what he found there—if 30 he found anything—he revealed to no one.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

During the first weeks after my return to Naples my mind was diverted from all my troubles and anxiety by [pg 199] novelties that everything contributed to render efficacious and powerful.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

Nor was the assemblage confined to the people of the country, for the Granddiddle Junction, by its connection with the great network of railways, enabled all patrons of this truly national sport to sweep down upon the spot like flocks of wolves; and train after train disgorged a generous mixture of sharps and flats, commingling with coatless, baggy-breeched vagabonds, the emissaries most likely of the Peeping Toms and Infallible Joes, if not the worthies themselves.
— from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees

Again the region emerged and probably was dry land during the last half of Jurassic time (135 to 150 million years ago).
— from The Geologic Setting of the John Day Country: Grant County, Oregon by Thomas P. Thayer

I lifted up my eyes with a rapturous expression, and played with a paper-knife.
— from Piccadilly: A Fragment of Contemporary Biography by Laurence Oliphant

What folly makes Hóseyn shout, "Dog Duhl, Damned son of the Dust, 95 Touch the right ear and press with your foot my Pearl's left flank!"
— from Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Robert Browning

Life was their master, as it had been the master of the poets who gathered in the Limerick hostelry, though it conquered them not by unreasoned love for a woman, or for native land, but by reasoned enthusiasm, and practical energy.
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 8 (of 8) Discoveries. Edmund Spenser. Poetry and Tradition; and Other Essays. Bibliography by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

He wished to restore Elath, and perhaps to carry out the old commerce with the Red Sea which Solomon began, and which had fired the ambition of Jehoshaphat.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

New agencies have been attached to it as they arose; now it deals with social work, relief, education, agitation, propaganda, espionage, [Pg 62] government-sponsored "social revolution," and many economic matters in addition to its narrowly military affairs.
— from The China of Chiang K'ai-Shek: A Political Study by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger