A city rich beyond compare With bards and minstrels gathered there, And men and damsels who entrance
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

I live not in myself, but I become / Portion of that around me; and to me / High mountains are a feeling.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

And just as at the former period they were the great masters of magic, so at the present time they are the masters of the almost magical art of gaining control over the mind both of the individual and of the public.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

However, the Jews 8 were not pleased with what had been done about this water; and many ten thousands of the people got together, and made a clamor against him, and insisted that he should leave off that design.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Tommy: "Shall I ever be half as old as you, papa?" Papa: "Yes, Tommy; and when that happens our three ages will add up to exactly twice as much as to-day."
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

The poor wretches complied with this request, hoping to obtain money and freedom; they would be sold to another master, and run away again, to their employers; sometimes they would be sold in this manner three or four times, until they had realized three or four thousand dollars by them; but as, after this, there was fear of detection, the usual custom was to get rid of the only witness that could be produced against them, which was the negro himself, by murdering him, and throwing his body into the Mississippi.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

Can you tell me why men believe in all ages and places that there are some few who live on always if they be permit; that there are men and women who cannot die?
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

That the experiment should be at length made in the case of one or two, whether there were any plebeian capable of sustaining a high dignity, or whether it were next to a miracle and a prodigy that any one sprung from the commons should be a brave and industrious man.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The assiduous merchant, the laborious husbandman, the active mechanic, and the industrious manufacturer,—all orders of men, look forward with eager expectation and growing alacrity to this pleasing reward of their toils.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Dickens, [1010] in speaking of an atrocious murderer who had just been caught, and was surrounded by a furious mob, describes "the people as jumping up one behind another, snarling with their teeth, and making at him like wild beasts."
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

I have trusted the Albanian somewhat recklessly, I have been told; I have given him plenty of chances of robbing me, and several of making away with me altogether; but he has always treated me with a fine courtesy, and has never taken a mean advantage.
— from Through the Land of the Serb by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham

Nor is this all, Marcion, as we know, rejected all three of the Pastoral Epistles; and Tertullian cannot think why Marcion should do so.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Pastoral Epistles by Alfred Plummer

It was then occupied by a very pretty woman, who had taken such a warm interest in my intended departure for Algiers that she meant to accompany me as far as Marseilles.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. IV, 1830 to 1831 by Alexandre Dumas

And the 'moral virtues,' which attempt to discriminate between right and wrong, are the idlest of delusions; they are merely 'allegories and dissimulations,' they 'do not exist.'
— from Books and Characters, French & English by Lytton Strachey

The next month the newspapers contained a paragraph which may possibly elucidate the above mystery, and to the following effect:— “Singular Wager.—One night, at the end of last season, the young and eccentric Earl of B-gn-gge laid a wager of twenty-five thousand pounds with a broken sporting patrician, the dashing Marquis of M-rt-ng-le, that he would pass a week under the roof of a celebrated and lovely young heiress, who lives not a hundred miles from B-lgr-ve Squ-re.
— from Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray

Jasmine quickly took out Aunt Ellen's letter, lest she should seem to be criticizing her dead father by thinking any more about Prince Adalbert.
— from Rich Relatives by Compton MacKenzie

At first it was not bigger than my finger, afterwards it swelled as thick as my arm, then as my leg, and at last as the trunk of a large tree, which a man might encompass with both his arms.
— from Buffon's Natural History, Volume 02 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Mineral, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

The project of a college was first suggested by the sons of Dr. Dwight, one of the most honored founders of the Armenian mission; and a meeting for consultation, called by them, was held at the house of Mr. Robert in New York, in October, 1857.
— from History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson

We might translate, at most, a girl’s description of her lover who is possibly accused of some crime, from deified into human, but that is all.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

My five brothers were called up at the same time as myself, and all five have been killed, and now the Russians are not wanted!
— from The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon