They were taught to do so, it may very safely be presumed, by the clergy of his own dominions.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Oh, that manner, I could see in my visitor’s face, and not a little else besides!
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Yet do thy worst old Time: despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The King is mad: how stiff is my vile sense, That I stand up, and have ingenious feeling Of my huge sorrows!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

This suggestion is more valuable than it seems at first sight.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Yea, but you will infer, your mistress is complete, of a most absolute form in all men's opinions, no exceptions can be taken at her, nothing may be added to her person, nothing detracted, she is the mirror of women for her beauty, comeliness and pleasant grace, inimitable, merae deliciae, meri lepores , she is Myrothetium Veneris, Gratiarum pixis , a mere magazine of natural perfections, she hath all the Veneres and Graces,— mille faces et mille figuras , in each part absolute and complete, [5726] Laeta genas laeta os roseum, vaga lumina laeta : to be admired for her person, a most incomparable, unmatchable piece, aurea proles, ad simulachrum alicujus numinis composita, a Phoenix, vernantis aetatulae Venerilla , a nymph, a fairy,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Still i’ my view, no obiect hath remou’d her.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

I don't suppose it makes very much difference.
— from He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

Why should I, with life beating strong in my veins, and ambition like a burning simoon in my breast, be left here helpless on the sands, where I can achieve nothing and make no progress towards the City of my Desire?”
— from In the Desert of Waiting: The Legend of Camel-back Mountain by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

Neptune's trident, it seems, had more attraction for her than the lyre of Apollo, whose strings she had so often set into melodious vibration.
— from Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel

[Pg 88] Clearly he knew the something in my voice which told him that obedience would be enforced at once and to the uttermost.
— from Boy of My Heart by Marie Connor Leighton

I have given authorities for these several statements in my 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

If any one wishes to rear them they must be taken early from the nest; fed on ants’ eggs, chopped meat and white bread soaked in milk, varying these things as their health requires, and as their excrements are too frequent or too soft.
— from The Natural History of Cage Birds Their Management, Habits, Food, Diseases, Treatment, Breeding, and the Methods of Catching Them. by Johann Matthäus Bechstein