A young gibbon ( Hylobates syndactylus ) in a passion has been described [516] as behaving in almost exactly the same manner.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Then the Demon appeared in his true form, and said: “I am Page 351 the beggar child, and mean to cook you for my dinner.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Do they fit me?—I am no judge, said I, and please your honour; but I think they look very fine.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

“Only tell me that it is not my maid,” said Strasoldo, in a pitiable voice.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Many men are at work to put Sheerness in a posture of defence, and a boom is being fitted over the river by Upnor Castle, which with the good fortifications will leave nothing to fear.”—Calendar of State Papers, 1667, p. 285.] and several other of our ships by us sunk, and several of the enemy’s, whereof three men-of-war that they could not get off, and so burned.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Since, then, the science of symbolism forms so important a part of the system of Freemasonry, it will be well to commence any discussion of that subject by an investigation of the nature of symbols in general.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

You, then, who are shut in and prisoned in this merest fraction of a point's space, do ye take thought for the blazoning of your fame, for the spreading abroad of your renown?
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

They sunk so rapidly, that at the moment their feet touched the rock, it shone only like a star, and at last disappeared like the last spark in a piece of burnt paper.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

You see, I am playing a most pitiful and ugly role in your eyes, and I even admit it—that is the utmost I can do for your sake.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

“You had better stay till the curtain is hung,” interposed Mrs. Norris; “the curtain will be hung in a day or two—there is very little sense in a play without a curtain—and I am much mistaken if you do not find it draw up into very handsome festoons.”
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

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— from Albania: A Narrative of Recent Travel by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight

It is going to establish clubs and meeting places for workingmen, places where they may meet, and play games, and read, and have social intercourse, and practical instruction.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

To-day there is probably not a man, or woman, or child attending school in any part of the civilized world, who does not know the main facts about the recent war: how the small country and the men of small stature, sarcastically described by their foes as "Wojen," pygmy, attacked the army and navy of a country ten times their size.
— from Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick

"The limit to the progress man must have attained to, before entering upon another circle of tests in another sphere, is at present unknown to us; science and philosophy will doubtless succeed in determining this limit later on.
— from Reincarnation: A Study in Human Evolution by Théophile Pascal

He was first brought there, very small, in a post-chaise, by a woman who was always taking snuff and shaking him—and that was the most he remembered about it.
— from Some Christmas Stories by Charles Dickens

—The Attorney General is the legal adviser of the State officers and acts as attorney for the State in all cases in which the State is a party.
— from Our Government: Local, State, and National: Idaho Edition by James Alton James

According to the separate items in the excerpts preserved, Manetho's thirty dynasties include a series of 5,366 Egyptian years (from the year 5702 to the year 340 B.C. ); nevertheless, Syncellus, in a passage of his Chronology, has observed that the whole period of history treated by Manetho in his three books covered 3,555 years.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Max Duncker

Commentary on Stanza IV, ante , pp.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

They on their own authority received Strickland in a public audience, and even ventured so far as to send a commissary, Gerard Schaep by name, to London, January 22.
— from Anglo-Dutch Rivalry During the First Half of the Seventeenth Century being the Ford lectures delivered at Oxford in 1910 by George Edmundson