She's a good girl and she's only seventeen.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

In Asgard, before the doors of Valhal, stands a grove which is called Glaser, and all its leaves are of red gold, as is here sung: Glaser stands With golden leaves Before Sigtyr’s halls.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

Il faut avaler bien de la fumée aux lampes avant que de devenir bon orateur —A man must swallow a great deal of lamp-smoke before he can be a good orator.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

When fulfilled with the sight of them she returns home, and the charioteer puts up the horses in their stable, and gives them ambrosia to eat and nectar to drink.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

I was swearing, raving, screaming, when suddenly a grave-looking individual made his appearance in my room, and said to me: “Sir, you are wrong in calling for meat, when in Ancona fish is much better; you are wrong in expecting the landlord to believe you on your bare word; and if you have obtained the permission from the Pope, you have been wrong in soliciting it at your age; you have been wrong in not asking for such permission in writing; you are wrong in calling the host a fool, because it is a compliment that no man is likely to accept in his own house; and, finally, you are wrong in making such an uproar.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters; his straight and single lofty jet rising like a tall misanthropic spear upon a barren plain; gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in swimming, as to defy all present pursuit from man; this leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race, bearing for his mark that style upon his back.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The conversation, in the meantime, was spirited and general.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Secondly, we have seen that according to Spencer and Gillen, if the chief does not eat the totemic animal or plant, he will lose his powers.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

He looketh for the affection more than the value, and setteth all gifts lower than the Beloved.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

these legings are made of the skins of the antelope and the Chemise usually of those of the large deer Bighorn and the smallest elk.—They seldom wear the beads they possess about their necks at least I have never seen a grown person of either sex wear them on this part; some their children are seen with them in this way.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Yet the charm of the thing was so great, and the separate passages were so consummate, that even critics were loth to quarrel with such a gift.
— from A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury

Dan MacDonald, pioneer saloonman and gambler on the upper Yukon, owner and proprietor of the Tivoli and all its games, wandered forlornly across the great vacant space of floor and joined the two at the stove.
— from Burning Daylight by Jack London

See Abraham ben Chiya Schadow, sculptor, 313 Schallmeier, teacher of Heine, 342 Schlegel, von, Friedrich, husband of Dorothea Mendelssohn, 306 Schleiden, M. J., quoted, 28 , 74-75 Schleiermacher and the Jews, 313 , 314 , 323 Schopenhauer, Arthur, anticipated by Gabirol, 27 on Heine, 357-358 Schutzjude , a privileged Jew, 302-403 Scotists and Gabirol,
— from Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles

Before the eyes of both it suspends a golden prize, which not all can attain, but for which each may strive, the enchanting vision of infinite expansion.
— from The Acquisitive Society by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

Her kinsfolk and noble neighbours still more or less Pagan, were filled with fury and indignation and that sharp disgust at the loss of so much good money to the world, which had so much to do in embittering opposition: but the Christians were deeply impressed, the homage of such a great lady to the faith, and her recantation of her errors affecting many as a true martyrdom.
— from The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Gold medals in two sizes were therefore struck and granted to senior officers, the larger medals being given to generals and the smaller to other officers, as a rule not below the rank of major.
— from The Life of a Regimental Officer During the Great War, 1793-1815 by A. F. (Augustus Ferryman) Mockler-Ferryman

When she arrived at her place of destination, the door of her carriage was opened, and the steps let down in a very obsequious manner, by the new servant; and great was her surprise and confusion, to recognize in him her own husband!
— from Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life by Lydia Maria Child

As, for some time, I chiefly made use of copper for the generation of nitrous air, I first ascribed this circumstance to that property of this metal, by which it burns with a green flame; but I was presently satisfied that it must arise from the spirit of nitre, for the effect is the very same from which ever of the metals the nitrous air is extracted, all of which I tried for this purpose, even silver and gold.
— from Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air by Joseph Priestley