Such, for instance, is the lifelike and characteristic picture of the palace of Odysseus, which may be called a sort of comedy of manners.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

Every one knows that the sight of cats or rats, the crushing of a coal, etc. may unhinge the reason.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

This barricade was furious; it hurled to the clouds an inexpressible clamor; at certain moments, when provoking the army, it was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming heads crowned it; a swarm filled it; it had a thorny crest of guns, of sabres, of cudgels, of axes, of pikes and of bayonets; a vast red flag flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving were to be heard there.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

[235] "That connection [he says] or relation which comes gradually to subsist among the different words of a language, in the minds of those who speak it,... is merely consequent on this, that those words are employed as signs of connected or related things.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

But Simon, the son of Cathlas, one of their commanders, with much ado quieted the tumult of his own men, and stood so that the high priests might hear him, and said as follows: "I can no longer wonder that the patrons of liberty are under custody in the temple, since there are those that shut the gates of our common city 8 to their own nation, and at the same time are prepared to admit the Romans into it; nay, perhaps are disposed to crown the gates with garlands at their coming, while they speak to the Idumeans from their own towers, and enjoin them to throw down their arms which they have taken up for the preservation of its liberty.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

I have a sort of chill over me that freezes my back.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Again, in some obscure corner of the church one came in contact with a sort of living chimera, crouching and scowling; it was Quasimodo engaged in thought.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

She rejects the synods of Constantinople of the years 867 and 879, which were, however, equally numerous and noisy; but they were favorable to Photius.]
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

We haunted the old shops where great golden Buddhas sat enthroned amidst a most miscellaneous collection—men in armour, memorial cabinets, huge bronze vases, inlaid swords with quaint tsuba, or sword guards, mingling with lovely china vases, which, if modern, are nevertheless a joy for ever to possess—to feast your eyes on their delicate shiny surfaces of ruby sang-de-bœuf , imperial yellow, lilac, blue, apple-green, or rose pink, strewn with a spray of snowy blossom or a spiky shaft of bamboo, where little birds fly across the pale sea of colour, or solemn storks perch beside some waving reeds.
— from Newfoundland to Cochin China By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

During luncheon the conversation turned on provincial cattle shows and competitions, and afterward, while smoking their cigars on the boulevards, the questions of the varied succession of crops, of drainage, and of liming were brought up, and there was a discussion on elections, the opinions of the various departments, and on the candidatures which had been planned, thought of, or attempted at the agricultural meetings.
— from Renée Mauperin by Jules de Goncourt

88 , 93 , 97 , 136 Tests for suitability, feasibility and acceptability 137-139 , 144 , 147 , 164 , 168 Theater of operations, survey of characteristics of 129-132 Training, [243] measures for 160 peacetime 2 subsidiary problem relating to 175 tactical 72 Transportation and supply, lines of 131 Types of naval directives 195 U Undesirable departures from plan involve penalty 201 Unforeseen opportunity to strike enemy may be presented 200 Unity of effort, adherence to chain of command, essential to 12 between management and labor 126 most important single factor 12 , 13 mutual understanding requisite to 14 V Versatility, as a psychological factor 126 Vessels, including aircraft, as a factor applicable to armed forces 127 W War, a human activity and subject to natural law 11 as understood herein 8 conditions in, peacetime exercises not conclusive guide to 198 effective conduct of, requirements and demands of 17 specialized nature of, as a human activity 35 Warfare, naval, discussion of 91 , 92 Weather 130 Will of the commander, importance of 201 Work Sheet, description of 207-210 entries in 214 facilitates oral estimates 212 facilitates special reports 212 facilitates written estimates 213 summary of 216 Typographical errors corrected in text: Page 8: circumtances replaced with circumstances Page 61: skillfull replaced with skillful Page 172: therof replaced with thereof Page 175: caried replaced with carried
— from Sound Military Decision by Naval War College (U.S.)

Moreover, and this so likewise, that I and all my company must be totally defrayed, both here and all the way up to Madrid, upon his Catholic Majesty's account; with several other circumstances of particular esteem for our Royal Master above all the world besides.
— from Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bt., Ambassador from Charles II to the Courts of Portugal and Madrid. by Ann Fanshawe

Then white of egg, soothing drinks, or sweet oil; castor oil to empty bowels.
— from The Mother and Her Child by William S. (William Samuel) Sadler

Social organizations, capitalization of, 25 .
— from The Writer's Desk Book Being a Reference Volume upon Questions of Punctuation, Capitalization, Spelling, Division of Words, Indention, Spacing, Italics, Abbreviations, Accents, Numerals, Faulty Diction, Letter Writing, Postal Regulations, Etc. by William Dana Orcutt

We infer that Apollodorus’ reference to “pumpkins” was intended to pour scorn on certain of Hadrian’s designs for vaults, involving pumpkin-like concave segments with re-entrant groins between, such as are still to be seen in Hadrian’s Villa, in the vestibule of the Piazza d’Oro, and in the Serapeum at the end of the Canopus ( Fig. 11.1 ).
— from The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italy by Paul Lachlan MacKendrick

"A sort of Chinese opera, I inferred," she said.
— from Judge Elbridge by Opie Percival Read

Here exists the highest state of civilization on the planet.
— from The Fire People by Ray Cummings

He also made the land to trend away on the west side of Cape Otway to a deep bay, which he named Portland Bay.
— from The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson With the journal of her first commander Lieutenant James Grant by Ida Lee