A Hindoo sect, which has many representatives in Bombay and Central India, holds that its spiritual chiefs or Maharajas, as they are called, are representatives or even actual incarnations on earth of the god Krishna.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

"Metal is heavier than feathers," but does that saying have reference to a single clasp of metal and a wagon-load of feathers?
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

On Easter Sunday crowds of men and boys carrying wands of gorse went to Pen Twthil, and there proclaimed the laws and regulations of the following day.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

“Peace,” she said, with a sudden change of manner, and speaking in her former soft voice.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

is the silent cry of many a man who would give life itself for the opportunity to go back and retrieve some long-past error.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Some coffees of merit are produced at Santa Ana, Monte Carmelo, and Bocono in Trujillo.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

This human nose, for instance, of which no philosopher has yet spoken with reverence and gratitude, is, for the present, the most finely adjusted instrument at our disposal: it is able to register even such slight changes of movement as the spectroscope would be unable to record.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I only wonder that our claims, contending against the superior claims of Mr and Mrs Boffin, had any weight.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

[ Contents ] CREAMED EGGS Butter a shallow dish, pour into it 1 scant cup of milk, and let heat.
— from The Golden Rule Cook Book: Six hundred recipes for meatless dishes by M. R. L. (Maud Russell Lorraine) Sharpe

The interview was conducted by the [Pg 86] interchange of the most formal social ceremonies of Mexico and of Spain.
— from Hernando Cortez Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

To the covert threat of the wily Spaniard, that if the war were to continue his royal master would doubtless feel compelled to take part with one side or the other, Lord Weymouth replied that the independence of the United States would prove fatal to the continuance of Spanish control over Mexico and South America; and he suggested, accordingly, that the true interest of Spain lay in forming an alliance with Great Britain.
— from The American Revolution by John Fiske

"Compassion is entirely thrown away," he added, with a sudden change of manner, and as if trying to shake off a weakness.
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

While I was conversing with him my thoughts were calm, but as soon as he disappeared I felt chilled with horror and dismay, a cold sweat came over me, and I again endeavored, but vainly, to awaken Sir Tristram; a flood of tears came to my relief, and I fell asleep....’
— from True Ghost Stories by Hereward Carrington

One day early in that month, Senator Chandler, of Michigan, a member of the committee, met George W. Julian.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

In the hall to which the first entrance gives access the vaulting is wrought in various compartments and painted in fresco, and on the walls are portraits from life of all the favourite and most beautiful horses from the stud of the Marquis, together with the dogs of the same coat or marking as the horses, with their names; which were all designed by Giulio, and painted in fresco on the plaster by the painters Benedetto Pagni and Rinaldo Mantovano, his disciples, and
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi by Giorgio Vasari