Her lovely Queen lived here in Memel and she walked out like other people.
— from Two Royal Foes by Eva Annie Madden

You can whisper sweet nothings to her across the sounding sea, and bid her "sleep well" over leagues of primeval forest, and through the stoniest-hearted city her soft voice will find its way.
— from Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Richard Le Gallienne

Cayuga Lake, Black Creek, Professor Peck ; in all side waters of Lake Ontario, Paine .
— from The Fern Bulletin, October 1903 A Quarterly Devoted to Ferns by Various

The legend which placed the pillar of salt into which Lot's wife was changed at the southern extremity of the Dead Sea was of late origin, probably not earlier than the days when Herod built his fortress of Machaerus on the impregnable cliffs of Moab, and the name of Gebel Usdum, given by the modern Arabs to one of the mountain-summits to the south of the sea proves nothing as to the site of the city of Sodom.
— from Patriarchal Palestine by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

In the second were oranges, lemons, olives, pomegranates, and other fruits.
— from Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley

The world was never weary of making reprints of his writings, adding in a supplement what antiquity had not known of our globe, or as the saying went, of lands outside Ptolemaeus, ( regiones extra Ptolemaeum. )
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

The moral beauty of prayer is intimately bound up with certain profound human sentiments: one prays for [220] somebody whom one loves; one prays out of pity or of affection; one prays in despair, in hope, in gratitude; so that the most elevated of human sentiments sometimes ally themselves with prayer and colour it.
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau

Hamilton, Sir W., on Law of Parsimony.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

The fat little officer in his smart uniform sat outside most of the day, smoking with Oriental listlessness or playing with his little fat boy, a miniature counterpart of himself, dressed in uniform with a toy sword.
— from By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb Wilkins

I must have called upon some of my classmates, but I cannot lay hold upon a single word or look or phrase from any of them.
— from A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland