I had a plan of the estate in my study, both at Hackton and in Berkeley Square, and the plans of the elevation of Ballybarry Castle, the ancestral residence of Barry Lyndon, Esq., with the projected improvements, in which the castle was represented as about the size of Windsor, with more ornaments to the architecture; and eight hundred acres of bog falling in handy, I purchased them at three pounds an acre, so that my estate upon the map looked to be no insignificant one.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Always bearing in mind the risk of being lost in the labyrinthine eccentricities of popular fancy, compared to which the Arsinoë of Herodotus was unperplexing, I venture to classify the inhabitants of the Welsh spirit-world thus: 1. Departed Mortals; 2. Goblin Animals; 3.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

Believe nothing, he tells us, keep your mind in suspense forever, rather than by closing it on insufficient evidence incur the awful risk of believing lies.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

While the first notion of immortality is only in the way of natural procreation or of posthumous fame and glory, the higher revelation of beauty, like the good in the Republic, is the vision of the eternal idea.
— from Phaedo by Plato

I have seen her in the morning, when the first flush of day had half-roused her; she lay gray and still on the crimson soil of Georgia; then the blue smoke began to curl from her chimneys, the tinkle of bell and scream of whistle broke the silence, the rattle and roar of busy life slowly gathered and swelled, until the seething whirl of the city seemed a strange thing in a sleepy land.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

They had to raise the head a little, and a rush of black liquid issued, as if she were vomiting, from her mouth.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

BLOOM: How? VIRAG: (A diabolic rictus of black luminosity contracting his visage, cranes his scraggy neck forward.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Cependent, mes regards curieux [Pg 361] Dessinaient à loisir l'être mystérieux: Voyant cet œil rapide où brille la pensée, Ce teint blanc de Louise et sa taille élancée.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas

“Students of literature will value this work, because it offers some insight into the character, the extent, and the quality of Bohemian literature extant, and the general public will find most interest in the discussion of the life and death of Hus and the principal events of his career, the life and work of Komensky, the sketch of Dobrovsky, and the long account of the enthusiastic work of the four patriots to whom the revival of Bohemian literature in the present century is due—Jungmann, Kollar, Safarik, and Palacky.”— Boston Herald.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

His constitution had been a robust one, but long undermined by his own errors it could not make any resistance.
— from The Memoirs of Maria Stella (Lady Newborough) by Ungern-Sternberg, Maria Stella Petronilla, Baroness

With regard to collecting members of the three remaining Orders but little need be said.
— from An Elementary Manual of New Zealand Entomology Being an Introduction to the Study of Our Native Insects by G. V. (George Vernon) Hudson

Coliates Proserpina , however, described here for the first time, was taken from strata beneath these, and therefore, at least until we have more precise knowledge concerning the remains of butterfly larvæ in amber, may be considered the oldest known butterfly.
— from Fossil Butterflies Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, I. by Samuel Hubbard Scudder

Outside the gates of Florence stands Dante in spirit, clothed in the simple red robe of a Florentine citizen, and [278] wearing the laurel wreath which was denied to him in life; in his left hand he holds the open volume of the Divina Commedia , from which rays of burning light proceed and illumine all the city.
— from The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner

Cold roast or boiled legs may be similarly treated but only need to be sauteed in a pan with a little Antonini Olive Oil.
— from Tempting Curry Dishes by Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson) Murrey

R. O Benjamin Lake Rankin Wilberforce Renfrew, N. R. O William P. Edwards Rapides des Joachims Aberdeen Pontiac Q William Spence Rathburn Mara Ontario, N.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1873 by Canada. Post Office Department

Two rows of boxes lined the sides.
— from With Edge Tools by H. C. (Hobart Chatfield) Chatfield-Taylor