The first is from Layard's Nineveh , and in it we see carried in one hand a triply branched lotus; the second, showing the regard for the spotted antelope, and for "the branch," is from Bonomi's Nineveh and its Palaces .
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

The work, from its powerful and brilliant style, though displaying in the early editions little accurate knowledge and a great want of scientific caution, immediately had a very wide circulation.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

There is, however, perhaps no sadder chapter in the history of human thought than the story of the later degeneration of the Yoga system {158} into one of bloody and cruel rites in India, and of superstition in China.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

He actually sat crying in an arm-chair, and I could hardly get him to speak coherently.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

My arks she called it.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Roe had lived for a time in La Salle County, Illinois, going to Racine County, Wisconsin, in 1842, as we have seen above.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

she cried, in a strange foreign voice.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

[167] Even after the United States came into the war the bulk of Russian expenditure in the United States, as well as the whole of that Government's other foreign expenditure, had to be paid for by the British Treasury.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

I am sensible I ought to entreat your pardon for addressing to you a work so wholly devoid of literary merit; but, as the production of an unlettered African, who is actuated by the hope of becoming an instrument towards the relief of his suffering countrymen, I trust that such a man , pleading in such a cause , will be acquitted of boldness and presumption.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

[Pg 116] If this situation continued it looked as if the siege might last a month, so we decided to move closer.
— from Recollections of a Pioneer by J. W. (J. Watt) Gibson

On the withdrawal of the magnet a second current is induced flowing in the opposite direction, B A .
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

And so crying I sped to the neck of meadow, and loosened the soft arms from my throat, and put the little one down within the corn.
— from At a Winter's Fire by Bernard Edward Joseph Capes

She came into the yard of the prison and asked permission to see her husband.
— from Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot by William Gannaway Brownlow

she cried, "I would not touch one cent of that money to save your soul from the torments of hell!
— from The Bride of the Tomb, and Queenie's Terrible Secret by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties.
— from The Campaign Round Liège by J. M. (John McFarland) Kennedy

Or I must endure such persecutions as she can inflict upon me.
— from The Parasite: A Story by Arthur Conan Doyle

— The Head of the Nation While Lee was passing the closing years of his life in tranquility, Grant was entering upon a stormy career in politics.
— from On the Trail of Grant and Lee by Frederick Trevor Hill

The salmon fisheries of the Columbia, Oregon, itself one of the grandest rivers in the world, give employment to 4,000 men during the season, and nearly all the canned salmon consumed in Europe comes from it.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 4 by Frederick Whymper