[508] When pleased, as when some coveted food is brought to them in the stable, they raise and draw in their heads, prick their ears, and looking intently towards their friend, often whinny.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

It rises up at first with divers [14] white and green scaly heads, very brittle or easy to break while they are young, which afterwards rise up in very long and slender green stalks of the bigness of an ordinary riding wand, at the bottom of most, or bigger, or lesser, as the roots are of growth; on which are set divers branches of green leaves shorter and smaller than fennel to the top; at the joints whereof come forth small yellowish flowers, which turn into round berries, green at first and of an excellent red colour when they are ripe, shewing like bead or coral, wherein are contained exceeding hard black seeds; the roots are dispersed from a spongeous head into many long, thick, and round strings, wherein is sucked much nourishment out of the ground, and increaseth plentifully thereby.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

She seemed, however, by certain signs, to recognize a door, and appro
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The offering of both seems to represent a desire to conciliate both sides.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

They will not endure to see them return all dust and sweat from their exercise, to drink cold drink when they are hot, nor see them mount an unruly horse, nor take a foil in hand against a rude fencer, or so much as to discharge a carbine.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The plans are then drawn up in the light of the estimate; they are limited by the harsh, immediate facts of the situation; they resemble a doctor's prognosis, which may have room for several choices, but which does not open the way to speculative, creative action.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

"Father Jove," he cried, "and all you other blessed gods who live for ever, come here and see the ridiculous and disgraceful sight that I will show you.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

First, That reason alone can never give rise to any original idea, and secondly, that reason, as distinguished from experience, can never make us conclude, that a cause or productive quality is absolutely requisite to every beginning of existence.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

—Among savages men think with a moral shudder of the possibility of becoming an object of pity, for such a state they regard as deprived of all virtue.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

With the exceptions of the actions between the 36 Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis , the Ranger and Drake , and the Yarmouth and Randolph , the war of ’76 was a repelled invasion.
— from Naval Actions of the War of 1812 by James Barnes

Now she would find out that [Pg 232] he could be as devoted to other women; could guide another's footsteps over the ice just as carefully as he had directed and picked her way for her over the snow; but whatever Amy thought she looked calm and unconcerned as she turned round and desired Fanny not to go so near the horse's feet.
— from It May Be True, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

To the widow of General Grant was given the right to select the spot for the last resting-place of his remains, she to repose after death beside her husband.
— from A New History of the United States The greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year by Charles Morris

No, the man approached but a few steps, then returned and disappeared.
— from Kobo: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang

The right, in fine, of the patrician senate to reject a decree of the community as unconstitutional—a right, however, which in all probability it rarely ventured to exercise—was withdrawn from it by the Publilian law of 415 and by the Maenian law which was not passed before the middle of the fifth century, in so far that it had to bring forward its constitutional objections, if it had any such, when the list of candidates was exhibited or the project of law was brought in; which practically amounted to a regular announcement of its consent beforehand.
— from The History of Rome, Book II From the Abolition of the Monarchy in Rome to the Union of Italy by Theodor Mommsen

Kate trembled very much, and her whole thoughts seemed to refuse all direction or control; but at that moment the host of the Maypole himself appeared, bearing a small silver chalice of warm wine, and a plate filled with many-coloured comfits.
— from Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

"I shall, though," replied Alaric, decidedly, "just as quick as we make a port; for if you think I'm going to remain in the smuggling business one minute longer than I can help, you're awfully mistaken.
— from Rick Dale, A Story of the Northwest Coast by Kirk Munroe

The landlord, whose tenant is poor and sick, is very grateful, of course, to the "charitable society" which helps his tenant to pay the rent; and it is a question with the writer, sometimes, if it were not better that the kind and tender-hearted benefactors of the poor were less numerous; for if the poor were goaded on by suffering a little further, they might, dispelling the mists of ever-fallacious "hope" from before their eyes, come to see their rights, and demand them.
— from Knots Untied; Or, Ways and By-ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives by George S. McWatters