At times they perform plays representing events mentioned in the Purāns and Rāmayan, and showing wooden puppets moved by strings.”
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

It may appear strange that, although the Greeks considered the earth to be a flat circle, no explanation is given of the fact that Helios sinks down in the far Page 63 [63] west regularly every evening, and yet reappears as regularly every morning in the east.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Plato’s Republic has been said to be a church and not a state; and such an ideal of a city in the heavens has always hovered over the Christian world, and is embodied in St. Augustine’s ‘De Civitate Dei,’ which is suggested by the decay and fall of the Roman Empire, much in the same manner in which we may imagine the Republic of Plato to have been influenced by the decline of Greek politics in the writer’s own age.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Helios, who was the son of the Titans Hyperion and Theia, is described as rising every morning in the east, preceded by his sister Eos (the Dawn), who, with her rosy fingers, paints the tips of the mountains, and draws aside that misty veil through which her brother is about to appear.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

“You must really excuse me,” interrupted the general, “but I positively haven’t another moment now.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A damp coolness rose from the ground as the evening rain evaporated mistily into the still air.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

He drove the earls Svein and Hakon away from their heritages; and was even most tyrannical towards his own connections, as he drove all the kings out of the Uplands: although, indeed, it was but just reward for having been false to their oaths of fealty to King Canute, and having followed this King Olaf in all the folly he could invent; so their friendship ended according to their deserts, by this king mutilating some of them, taking their kingdoms himself, and ruining every man in the country who had an honourable name.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The 'pessimistic' strain in Timon suggests to many readers, even more imperatively than King Lear , the notion that Shakespeare was giving vent to some personal feeling, whether present or past; for the signs of his hand appear most unmistakably when the hero begins to pour the vials of his wrath upon mankind.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

I had sufficient matter of reflection to prevent me from being weary on the road, employing myself in the recollection of that which had just happened; but this was neither my turn of mind nor the inclination of my heart.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As regards metre, there is no doubt that the quatrain of ten-syllable lines which has been tried by Hammer, Bicknell, and others, and has been raised by Mr. Fitzgerald almost to the rank of a recognised English metre, is the best representative of the Ruba'i .
— from The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

Recent Earth Movements in the Great Lakes Region.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899 Volume LIV, No. 5, March 1899 by Various

There was no proletariat in Russia, every man in the country being born to a share in the land of the township he belonged to; and without a proletariat, concluded the learned professor, there was neither motive nor material for social revolt.
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

My father added, that their leaving their work, their assembling at the public house, and even obtaining beer almost by force, might have been overlooked, particularly as no serious mischief had followed; but the forcible and violent rescue and resistance to the execution of the warrant of a magistrate could not be overlooked; for, if we were disposed to do so, it would be an insult to Mr. Webb, the magistrate who had granted it; and if we treated him, who was the only real efficient magistrate in the district, with disrespect, we could not expect that he would be disposed in future to attend so promptly to our representations.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 by Henry Hunt

That was right enough, maybe, in the days when you hurrooshed into battle waving a banner, but it don't do with high explosives and a couple of million men on each side and a battle front of five hundred miles.
— from Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

Concerning this charge, the most remarkable ever made in the annals of American historical writing, the reader must be the judge after weighing all the facts.
— from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. IV March, 1903-December, 1903 by Oregon Historical Society

But I do not mind saying that I rejoice even more in the knowledge that America is going to win the right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are being discussed.
— from Winning a Cause: World War Stories by John G. (John Gilbert) Thompson

He will leave pleasant Sherborne, and the bosom of the beautiful bride, and the first-born son, and all which to most makes life worth having, and which Raleigh enjoys more intensely than most men; for he is a poet, and a man of strong nervous passions withal.
— from Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time by Charles Kingsley

—A bronze file was made by perforating a tube of bronze with holes and leaving the rough edges made in the perforation protruding; (see Fig. 153 ).
— from Archæology and the Bible by George A. (George Aaron) Barton