One cannot be so easily convinced; at least if he comes by convictions without effort, they soon prove to be valueless and unable to hold their own.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

And so Empedocles calls Aphrodite Life-giving , 89 and Sophocles calls her Fruitful , both very appropriate epithets.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Four of them, well armed, searched every cranny and lurking-hole, till at last they found me flat on my face behind the stone.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

After about ten minutes a knock came to the door, and the servant entered, carrying a large mahogany chest of chemicals, with a long coil of steel and platinum wire and two rather curiously shaped iron clamps.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

And lastly, its speculative opinions involve the same ethical conclusions, and lead in like manner to a rigid asceticism.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Sir Edward Carson and Lord Londonderry were both in London on the 24th of April.
— from Ulster's Stand For Union by Ronald McNeill

2 6 M. 21 1 6 63 S E Cloudy, and like to rain, the clouds come from north-east.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

Fanny, who had from the first perceived the equivoque, was very little better, while my mother, completely mystified, sat staring at Lawless, whom she evidently considered a little insane, with an expression of bewildered astonishment, not unmixed with fear.
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

come si fece subito e candente a li occhi miei che, vinti, nol soffriro!
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

The pediment of the southern end contains a large altorelievo by Lemaire.
— from Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business by D. W. (David W.) Bartlett

Sentose el Conde a la mesa, No cenava, ni podia,
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

She was not to be so easily checked, and laughed loudly, flourishing her violets in his face again.
— from Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

V (1900), for 1803-1815; J. W. Fortescue, British Statesmen of the Great War, 1793-1814 (1911), derogatory of Pitt and marked by zealous prejudice in favor of other Tory statesmen, especially Castlereagh and Liverpool; Sir Herbert Maxwell, The Life of Wellington , 2 vols.
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes