Then he went into the third room, and there the dog was really hideous; his eyes were, truly, as big as towers, and they turned round and round in his head like wheels.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

"Probable indeed, Cebes; and not that these are the souls of the good, but of the wicked, which are compelled to wander about such places, paying the penalty of their former conduct, which was evil; and they wander about so long until, through the desire of the corporeal nature that accompanies them, they are again united to a body; and they are united, as is probable, to animals having the same habits as those they have given themselves up to during life."
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

Such a spirit, become free , appears in the middle of the universe with a feeling of cheerful and confident fatalism; he believes that only individual things are bad, and that as a whole the universe justifies and, affirms itself— He no longer denies ....
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Dined at home and thence to White Hall again (where I lose most of my time now-a-days to my great trouble, charge, and loss of time and benefit), and there, after the Council rose, Sir G. Carteret, my Lord Brunkard, Sir Thomas Harvy, and myself, down to my Lord Treasurer’s chamber to him and the Chancellor, and the Duke of Albemarle; and there I did give them a large account of the charge of the Navy, and want of money.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The only life in this great morass was that of the aquatic birds, and the animals that fed on them, of both of which there were vast numbers.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

From time to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

I do, therefore, by these presents, strictly order and command, That it be known and distinguished by the name and title of the Argumentum Fistulatorium, and no other;—and that it rank hereafter with the Argumentum Baculinum and the Argumentum ad Crumenam, and for ever hereafter be treated of in the same chapter.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Some authorities have, however, derived the mantling from the robe of estate, and there certainly has been a period in British armory when most lambrequins found in heraldic art are represented by an unmutilated cloth, suspended from and displayed behind the armorial bearings and tied at the upper corners.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

As for the cabin itself, the contents had been torn and beaten away through a huge gap on one side of the rudder, which reached upward to the deck, and nothing remained of locker or berth that could give any trace of the crew.
— from Steve Young by George Manville Fenn

This is the record of a trip which the author took with Buffalo Jones, known as the preserver of the American bison, across the Arizona desert and of a hunt in "that wonderful country of yellow crags, deep canons and giant pines."
— from From the Valley of the Missing by Grace Miller White

three men come seeking thee and asking shelter, and they are beautiful as the angels of God.”
— from Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets And Other Old Testament Characters from Various Sources by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Sir T. D. Lauder tells us that the roof of the Parliament House in Edinburgh is constructed of chestnut, and we have often seen it stated that the magnificent roof of Westminster Hall has been [293] framed of this timber; [28] but to quote from Selby’s admirable “History of British Forest Trees”: — The fact is, as Buffon first observed, the wood of the oak, more particularly that of the sessile-fruited variety, assumes, in course of time, a near resemblance in colour to that of the chestnut in its best condition, or when young and untainted at heart; and as few chestnuts could have acquired the scantling frequently observed in the timbers of these ancient buildings at the age dialling or decay almost invariably commences, this in itself furnishes a strong argument against the use of chestnut timbers and beams by our ancestors, inasmuch as the trees must become unfit for the pu
— from Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation by James Buckman

He had been there the afternoon before, and then again late in the evening, bringing another doctor with him.
— from The Glory of the Conquered: The Story of a Great Love by Susan Glaspell

The atmosphere which this attitude brought about, the atmosphere of terror which had enveloped Europe for so many years, was swept away, once and for all, by the Belgian army at Liège.
— from The Campaign Round Liège by J. M. (John McFarland) Kennedy

This question I shall endeavor to answer in the affirmative, by appealing to a multitude of facts.
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

As soon as I began to look around a little after I was left alone in the ambulance, I discovered that not so very far ahead was an opening in the trees and bushes, and that a bit of beautiful dry land could be seen.
— from Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Frances Marie Antoinette Mack Roe