The saying passed as an axiom which called THE SWORD THE SOUL OF THE SAMURAI, and made it the emblem of power and prowess.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

Deformity is daring; it is its essence to overtake mankind by heart and soul, and make itself the equal, ay, the superior of the rest.
— 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.

[133] to present themselves to society belongs to all mankind in virtue of our common right of possession on the surface of the earth on which, as it is a globe, we cannot be infinitely scattered, and must in the end reconcile ourselves to existence side by side: at the same time, originally no one individual had more right than another to live in any one particular spot.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

My studies are more interesting than ever.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

The noble Pantagruel was, without comparison, more admirable yet in the art of shooting and darting; for with his dreadful piles and darts, nearly resembling the huge beams that support the bridges of Nantes, Saumur, Bergerac, and at Paris the millers’ and the changers’ bridges, in length, size, weight, and iron-work, he at a mile’s distance would open an oyster and never touch the edges; he would snuff a candle without putting it out; would shoot a magpie in the eye; take off a boot’s under-sole, or a riding-hood’s lining, without soiling them a bit; turn over every leaf of Friar John’s breviary, one after another, and not tear one.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

A silent, almost morose, inattention to each other succeeds to the subsidence into their seats, lasting till well into the first entre
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

The north and south winds met where the house stood, and made it the exact center of the cyclone.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Thereby he renders himself independent of the consent of the outer world in obtaining his sensual satisfactions, and moreover increases the excitement by including a second zone of his body.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

They were swiftly lined up into squads and marched into the enclosure and from there into a huge black barracks.
— from They Twinkled Like Jewels by Philip José Farmer

Finally, when we observe stars actually moving in the ecliptic, the circles they follow would be seen edgewise, and thus the stars would have merely the linear movement which they are seen to possess.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

You went and put the letter for the magazine in the letter to your folks and you put the story about me in the envelope addressed to the magazine, and they’re going to publish that story about me all over the country.”
— from Won in the Ninth The first of a series of stories for boys on sports to be known as The Matty Books by Christy Mathewson

A murmur of conversation broke out, but that was interrupted by a messenger from the outposts who brought news—namely, that for an hour there had been stir and movement in the English camp of a sort unusual at such a time and with a resting army, he said.
— from Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2 by Mark Twain

She had donned her hat, and as she stood a moment in the entrance, surveying the line of tables, her distinction was undeniable.
— from The Little Brown Jug at Kildare by Meredith Nicholson

But a little later, there was still another meeting in the evening that will not soon be forgotten by those who were present.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 48, No. 10, October, 1894 by Various

He spent a month in the estuary above Salcombe, steamed across to Havre, went down through the canals to Marseilles in the autumn of 1914, and sought one of the neutral coasts of the Mediterranean.
— from The Four Corners of the World by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason