If so, then a red nose can only be one which has received a coating of vermilion.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

There could be no doubt that it had a very turn-up nose, much more like a snout than a real nose; also its eyes were getting extremely small for a baby: altogether Alice did not like the look of the thing at all.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

And this was his pretext; but in reality he prohibited the eating of animals, because he wished to train and accustom men to simplicity of life, so that all their food should be easily procurable, as it would be, if they ate only such things as required no fire to dress them, and if they drank plain water; for from this diet they would derive health of body and acuteness of intellect.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

A waiter at the Hummums, in which house Ford died, had been absent for some time, and returned, not knowing that Ford was dead.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, the most helpless and diseased, which in others are luxuries merely, and in others still are entirely unknown.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Tim well remembered afterwards, and often said, that as Ralph Nickleby went into the house for this purpose, he saw him, by the light of the candle which he had set down upon a chair, reel and stagger like a drunken man.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I said then and repeat now, that in all the ten terrible years of shooting, hanging and burning of men, women and children in America, the Women's Christian Temperance Union never suggested one plan or made one move to prevent those awful crimes.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Pompeius built the first stone theatre at Rome, near the Campus Martius, capable of holding 40,000 people.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

several times, and, receiving no answer, got up and went out into the hall.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

A Man has frequent Opportunities of mitigating the Fierceness of a Party; of doing Justice to the Character of a deserving Man; of softning the Envious, quieting the Angry, and rectifying the Prejudiced; which are all of them Employments suited to a reasonable Nature, and bring great Satisfaction to the Person who can busy himself in them with Discretion.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The old Shamanism then apparently revived; nor was it till 1577 that the great reconversion of Mongolia to Lamaism began.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

To think is to judge, and to judge is to distinguish while unifying, in which the distinguishing is not less real than the unifying, and the unifying than the distinguishing—that is to say, they are real, not as two diverse realities, but as one reality, which is dialectical unity (whether it be called unity or distinction).
— from Theory & History of Historiography by Benedetto Croce

The group of children skipped around their mother shouting the ancient Russian name of Stambul: 15 “Zavegorod! Zavegorod!”
— from Constantinople, v. 1 (of 2) by Edmondo De Amicis

Feeling the urgent need of more troops, and the imperative necessity of holding Cawnpore safely while he himself advanced into Oude, Havelock had already sent to Allahabad, requesting Neill to come if possible in person to Cawnpore, and to bring reinforcements with him.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

But there are those exceptional deeds of valor that are committed beyond the right of expectation; they are deeds that combine the highest intelligence with the utmost bravery; they are those instances of self-sacrificial service that are rendered not with thought of hardship nor of pain nor of reward, but only with the hope that the foundations of our Country and our Homes remain unshaken.
— from Company B, 307th Infantry Its history, honor roll, company roster, Sept., 1917, May, 1919 by Julius Klausner

In effect, Christianity had become polytheistic; and were it not that the personalities of Father , Mother and Son satisfied the average religious need, as it had so long done in pre-Christian Egypt, the dispute actually begun by Bishop Macedonius of Constantinople in the fourth century over the [ 152 ] modality of the Holy Ghost would have gone as far as those over the Son and “the Mother of God.”
— from A Short History of Christianity Second Edition, Revised, With Additions by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

Another Boston school girl, twelve years of age, in 1772, describes her own evening dress thus: "I was dress'd in my yellow coat, black bib & apron, black feathers on my head, my past comb, & all my past garnet marquesett & jet pins, together with my silver plume—my loket, black mitts & 2 or 3 yards of blue ribbin, (black & blue is high tast) striped tucker and ruffels (not my best) & my silk shoes compleated my dress."
— from The Historical Child Paidology; The Science of the Child by Oscar Chrisman

This suggestion the Arborychi received not at all unwillingly; for both, as it happened, were Christians.
— from Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI. by Procopius

It is not necessary to consider particularly the attempt made to disprove the genuineness of certain parts of Jeremiah's prophecies, since they all rest, not on critical grounds, but on the false principle that has been already considered—the denial of the reality of prophetic inspiration.
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows

Edward, order what is needed for Her Highness and see that a room next to Her Highness is prepared for me.
— from Roses: Four One-Act Plays Streaks of Light—The Last Visit—Margot—The Far-away Princess by Hermann Sudermann