the lover of wines all wines; And what do you say of lovers of wine?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

There is in this early period a sort of loose organization, which we shall call pre-genital .
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The mutilated remains of criminals who had been boiled, quartered, or beheaded, were also hung there, enclosed in sacks of leather or wickerwork.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

After the American Revolution, considerable numbers of loyalists in the United States voluntarily relinquished their homesteads and property, and came to Canada, which then, even on the shores of Lake Ontario, was a perfect wilderness.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

His negro servant, Francis Barber, having left him, and been some time at sea, not pressed as has been supposed, but with his own consent, it appears from a letter to John Wilkes, Esq., from Dr. Smollet, that his master kindly interested himself in procuring his release from a state of life of which Johnson always expressed the utmost abhorrence.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

King Magnus had a helmet on his head; a red shield, in which was inlaid a gilded lion; and was girt with the sword of Legbit, of which the hilt was of tooth (ivory), and handgrip wound about with gold thread; and the sword was extremely sharp.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Nevertheless, every man desires to reach old age; in other words, a state of life of which it may be said: "It is bad to-day, and it will be worse to-morrow; and so on till the worst of all.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

For whereas formerly those who seemed to excel others by the laudable manner in which they regulated their lives were called sages, Pythagoras, on being asked what he professed, replied that he was a philosopher, that is, a student or lover of wisdom; for it seemed to him to be the height of arrogance to profess oneself a sage.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Chalco and Texcoco are divided by a narrow strip of land over which the direct road to the city runs.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 1. by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

If you are a worker and not a shirker—if you are a lifter and not a leaner—if you have done your best to succeed in your present vocation, and are still dissatisfied, and feel that you could do better in some other line of work, we hope that Page 287 this book has been of some assistance to you in determining your new line.
— from Analyzing Character The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in Business, the Home and Social Life by Arthur Newcomb

The western sky, glowing with tints of the clearest, palest amber melting into a delicate rose, which merged in its turn imperceptibly into a clear, deep, transparent blue as the eye glanced from the horizon toward the zenith, was without a trace of cloud, and against this pure and exquisitely tinted background the outlines of Hurst Castle stood sharply out, the castle itself and the low spit of land on which it is built appearing of a deep, rich, powerful, purple hue, as though carved out of a giant amethyst, while the country further inland exhibited tints varying from the deepest olive—almost approaching black—through the richest greens, away to the most delicate of pearly greys in the remote distance.
— from Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Harry Collingwood

Daily may the cattle be seen swimming across these street-streams in search of a dry spot of land on which to graze.
— from A Sketch of Assam: With some account of the Hill Tribes by Butler, John, Major

But it is his father's design that he should prosecute the study of letters, of which [145] he has acquired the rudiments.
— from Letters of John Calvin, Volume II Compiled from the Original Manuscripts and Edited with Historical Notes by Jean Calvin

McWarrish was his name, and he was Marguerite's mother's brother, who managed a silver or lead (or was it a gold?)
— from Running Free by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

Sunlight fell in bars through the quiet woods; nothing stirred on land or water save the great, yellow-striped butterflies that fluttered and soared and floated above the flowering thickets bordering the jungle.
— from In Search of the Unknown by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Sedgwick, Adam , geologist, born at Dent, Yorkshire; graduated at Cambridge in 1808, became a Fellow in the same year, and in 1818 was elected to the Woodward chair of Geology; co-operated with Murchison in the study of the geological formation of the Alps and the Devonian system of England; strongly conservative in his scientific theories, he stoutly opposed the Darwinian theory of the origin of species; his best work was contributed in papers to the Geological Society of London, of which he was President 1829-1831; published "British Palæozoic Rocks and Fossils" (1785-1873).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

M. Robertson, at Paris, introduced along with his pictures the direct shadows of living objects, which imitated coarsely the appearance of those objects in a dark night or in moonlight.
— from Letters on Natural Magic; Addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by David Brewster