“Good-bye, children” bird) is a small bird whose note is to be heard at the season when the young rice is sprouting ( musim padi pĕchah anak ).
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The apprehension of a revolt had inspired the most rigorous precautions: oppression had been aggravated by insult, and the consciousness of the public hatred had been productive of every measure that could render it still more implacable.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“Even under The Leads?” “My imprisonment was certainly despotic; but as I had knowingly abused my liberty I am satisfied that the Government was within its rights in shutting me up without the usual formalities.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In this respect, indeed, she might have been regarded as little less than the equal of the celebrated Ninon De L’Enclos.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

figurar i figure; r imagine; se me figura
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

[Four are usually reckoned: Islām Shāh, Muhammad Shāh Ādil, Ibrāhīm Shāh, and Sikandar Shāh.] 17 .
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

If he has escaped them in form, and in the appearance, it is because he has resisted his life, and fled from himself, and the retribution is so much death.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

That every Ray consider'd apart, is constant to it self in some degree of Refrangibility, is sufficiently manifest out of what has been said.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

“By making you happy,” she replied, “I shall make myself happy, too.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

These losses reanimated in some measure her affection for the nearest relative she had remaining, which was myself.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" Jasper Penny replied, "It seems my hair is grey."
— from The Three Black Pennys: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

"Why," answered Florence, "you see, Mr. Middleton has conceived a fatherly affection for me, and as he is rather rusty in such matters, he could think of no better way of proposing than to put himself up as a prize, and tell me if I beat him in playing chess, he would be mine, or in other words, make me Mrs. Billy Middleton."
— from Tempest and Sunshine by Mary Jane Holmes

But what is it in human nature that is apt to carry a man who may take a step in personal reform into so many extremes?
— from Backlog Studies by Charles Dudley Warner

Each attempt brought its reward in strengthened muscles, freer joints, greater confidence.
— from The Silent Places by Stewart Edward White

Six months afterwards Emerson remarked with his most amiable smile, "I expect Mr. Ruskin is still miserable because I could not understand him."
— from Sketches from Concord and Appledore Concord thirty years ago; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Louisa M. Alcott; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Matthew Arnold; David A. Wasson; Wendell Phillips; Appledore and its visitors; John Greenleaf Whittier by Frank Preston Stearns

Her plan was a simple one, and easy of execution; though there was no limit to the evil results its success might have upon the kingdom.
— from Marzio's Crucifix, and Zoroaster by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Thus it seems evident that Inkpaduta could not [Pg 77] have been on a mission of blood revenge: it seems more probable that his own character and that of the members of his group, coupled with an overemphasized conviction of wrongs suffered in years past, allied with the intense suffering of the moment, had produced an outburst of savage frenzy culminating in murder.
— from The Spirit Lake Massacre by Thomas Teakle