Note 15 ( return ) [ Vavassor’s treatise, entitled “De Ludicra Dictione” was written A.D. 1658, at the request of the celebrated M. Balzac (though published after his death), for the purpose of showing that the burlesque style of writing adopted by Scarron and D’Assouci, and at that time so popular in France, had no sanction from the ancient classic writers.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

If a child (see Plate IV., fig.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

He does not exactly mean to say that they are crows in the vulgar and empiric sense of the term, but that the same principle is found in all of them, which is their most essential characteristic, which they have in common with the animals of the same name and which is thought of under the external form of a crow.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

While Vane was upon this Island, a Ship put in from Jamaica for Water, the Captain of which, one Holford , an old Buccaneer, happened to be Vane ’s Acquaintance; he thought this a good Opportunity to get off, and accordingly applied to his old Friend; but he absolutely refused him, saying to him, Charles, I shan’t trust you aboard my Ship, unless I carry you a Prisoner; for I shall have you caballing with my Men, knock me on the Head, and run away with my Ship a pyrating.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Two weeks later he was overjoyed to see, in the latest number on the news-stand, his story printed in full, illustrated, and in the place of honor.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Besides, mother, remark how vivid his eye, how raven-black his hair, and his brow, though so pale, is free from wrinkles,—he is not only vigorous, but also young.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The sun was beginning to sink behind the stables of Mapleton, and the long, sloping plain in front of us was tinged with gold, deepening into rich, ruddy browns where the faded ferns and brambles caught the evening light.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

She has made the exercise of the latter sense practically inseparable from that of the former, by placing their organs close together, and by providing, in the mouth, a direct pathway between them, so that we taste nothing without smelling it too.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In the evening, when I joined the Stromness party, I found Captain Abernethy exclaiming in indignant terms against the result of the trial.
— from The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands by Robert Leighton

"Excuse me, ma'am." said Pennyways; "I've some private information for your ear alone.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

[ 434 ] The blossoms on her Tree of Life Shone with the dews of recent bliss: Transplanted in that deadly strife, She plucks its fruits in Paradise.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It ought, however, to be remembered, that such permission, if frequently or indiscriminately granted, might be abused: the greatest protection against such an abuse will be found, in bringing the force of public opinion to bear upon scientific men and thus enabling the proper authorities, although themselves but moderately conversant with science, to judge of the propriety of the permission, from the public character of the applicant.
— from On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures by Charles Babbage

He stopped, however, when the mouth of an old war pistol was suddenly placed in front of his left shoulder.
— from The Loves of Ambrose by Margaret Vandercook

He at last took the field; and, in the next summer, by keeping the Bavarian army employed in Suabia, prevented it from relieving Thionville, which was besieged by Conde.
— from The Thirty Years War — Complete by Friedrich Schiller

5. Have you seen pupils inattentive from lack of (1) change, (2) pure air, (3) enthusiasm on the part of the teacher, (4) fatigue, (5) ill health?
— from The Mind and Its Education by George Herbert Betts