Democracy raises up a natural prince for its leader, and aristocracy infuses a princely spirit among the people.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

The English believe he comes of their English stock, A Jew to the Jew he seems, a Russ to the Russ, usual and near, removed from none.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Free as he was from all petty vanity, from every feeling of restless, egotistical ambition, still he felt a desire to be really useful, and not to leave inactive the abilities with which God had endowed him.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

This society, composed, as it is, of many varying natures and elements, where each individual must submit to merge his own identity into the universal whole, which makes the word and state, is divided and subdivided into various cliques, and has a pastime for every disposition, grave or gay; and with each division rises up a new set of forms and ceremonies to be observed {4} if you wish to glide down the current of polite life, smoothly and pleasantly.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

The fairest towns that ever the sun rose upon, are now no more; the names only are left, and those (for many of them are wrong spelt) are falling themselves by piece-meals to decay, and in length of time will be forgotten, and involved with every thing in a perpetual night: the world itself, brother Toby, must—must come to an end.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Love willeth to be raised up, and not to be held down by any mean thing.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

The Bull rising up, and not knowing what to do, was sadly perplexed.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

257 My third warning to thee is this: do thou very zealously keep watch over thyself, and reverence us in the first place, and among men only him who resembles us, and no one besides.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

At the end of a fortnight or three weeks matters remained unadvanced, and no banns were announced to the ears of any Aldbrickham congregation.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

There are generally (in the case of the peasantry) three or four thicknesses of these sarongs , but when a rich man ( orang kaya ) dies, as many as seven may be used, each of the seven being made in one long piece, so as to cover the body from the head to the feet, the cloth being of fine [ 398 ] texture, of no recognised colour, but richly interwoven with gold thread, while the body is laid upon a mattress, which in turn rests upon a new mat of pandanus leaf; finally, all but the very poorest display the hangings used on great occasions.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

After turning from the main road up a narrow lane, so thickly shaded with forest-trees as to give it a complete air of seclusion, we came in sight of the cottage.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

He had completely forgotten, as often happened, why he had taken the journey, and was thinking with emotion of the fact that Beethoven and Schubert had taken the same walk as he, many years ago, when he unexpectedly ran up against Nürnberger.
— from The Road to the Open by Arthur Schnitzler

They did not pass any of the signallers’ posts on their way, and consequently Lieutenant Morgan and his men remained up all night, to flash the news across the hills of the hour of the King’s starting from Hanzein.
— from The March to Magdala by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

It is not easy to see how this vital defect can be amended, except by the slow process of raising up a native population that we can trust and put in office, and this is impossible unless we encourage and reward the study of the English tongue.
— from Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7 by Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir

It is the first thing you look for when you rise in the morning, and the last your lingering gaze rests upon at night.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Then such a cheer went up from the conspirators in the hall of Barry Upper Branch, and the troop of horse outside, as it seemed, might have been heard across the sea which divided us from that tyranny which ruled us, and Nick Barry shouted to some of his black slaves, and presently every man of the soldiers was drinking cider made from the apples of Virginia, and with it, treason to the king and success to the rebels.
— from The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Each green baize bag was closely tied at the neck, and suspended at an equal height with the rest upon a nail.
— from Aunt Rachel A Rustic Sentimental Comedy by David Christie Murray

But the fragments of the cosmogonical systems that have reached us are now rejected as absurd fables.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

Having resolved upon a “new and strange navigation” they first of all brought Sebastian Cabot into their councils, and forming a company chose him their head.
— from The Boy's Hakluyt: English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery by Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe) Bacon