The old people never could explain the nature of the Tylwyth Teg , but they always regarded them as a very mysterious race, and, according to this story of the cattle, as a supernatural race.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

I went out then and ran to play.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

His indignation cooling as mine warmed, he refused my invitation, saying he would choose his own time, and returned towards the table muttering threats, which I neither dreaded nor distinctly heard; but, descending with great deliberation, received my sword from the door-keeper, whom I gratified with a guinea, according to the custom of the place, and went home in a rapture of joy.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

XIII T HO ’ my father persisted in not going on with the discourse—yet he could not get my uncle Toby ’s smoke-jack out of his head—piqued as he was at first with it;—there was something in the comparison at the bottom, which hit his fancy; for which purpose, resting his elbow upon the table, and reclining the right side of his head upon the palm of his hand——but looking first stedfastly in the fire——he began to commune with himself, and philosophize about it: but his spirits being wore out with the fatigues of investigating new tracts, and 45 the constant exertion of his faculties upon that variety of subjects which had taken their turn in the discourse——the idea of the smoke jack soon turned all his ideas upside down—so that he fell asleep almost before he knew what he was about.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

[367] More about the feast of Easter next following, John, Duke of Lancaster, having caused all the whole navy of England to be gathered together at London: it chanced a certain esquire to kill one of the shipmen, which act the other shipmen taking in ill part, they brought their suit into the king’s court of the Marshalsey, which then as chanced (saith mine author) was kept in Southwark: but when they perceived that court to be so favourable to the murderer, and further that the king’s warrant was also gotten for his pardon, they in great fury ran to the house wherein the murderer was imprisoned, brake into it, and brought forth the prisoner with his gyves on his legs, they thrust a knife to his heart, and sticked him as if he had been a dog; after this they tied a rope to his gyves, and drew him to the gallows, where when they had hanged him, as though they had done a great act, they caused the trumpets to be sounded before them to their ships, and there in great triumph they spent the rest of the day.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Such morsels of enthusiasm are common among the Glorious Apollos, and were indeed the links that bound them together, and raised them above the cold dull earth.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

He also went thence, and resolved to destroy those robbers that dwelt in the caves, and did much mischief in the country; so he sent a troop of horsemen, and three companies of armed footmen, against them.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

We may add to this a remark; that in matters of religion men take a pleasure in being terrifyed, and that no preachers are so popular, as those who excite the most dismal and gloomy passions.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

They are as follows:— ( a ) The Allies "reserve the right to retain and liquidate all property, rights and interests belonging at the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty to German nationals, or companies controlled by them, within their territories, colonies, possessions and protectorates, including territories ceded to them by the present Treaty."
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

And Cicero made the admirable remark to the Epicurean Atticus, that he could not discuss laws with him unless he first granted the existence of the divine providence.
— from The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Benedetto Croce

But if the motion of the earth from west to east be allowed, the same question may be put, for it must also revolve round certain poles, and why should they be placed where they are, rather than elsewhere?
— from Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon

When we examine impartially the manuals of psychology that have been published by the most distinguished speculative philosophers and are still widely distributed, we are astonished at the naivete with which the authors raise their airy metaphysical speculations, regardless of the momentous embryological facts that completely refute them.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Haeckel

Although both Basset and Faro were forbidden in France, on severe penalties, yet these games still continued in great vogue in England during the 18th century, especially Faro; for the alleged reasons that it was easy to learn, that it appeared to be very fair, and, lastly, that it was a very quiet game.
— from The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2) by Andrew Steinmetz

The Allier runs through rough basalt and crystalline rocks; the Ardèche flows between bluffs of limestone.
— from A Book of the Cevennes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

The gentlemen belonging to these ladies never came out till after tea, and returned to town early in the morning.
— from Pencil Sketches; or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie

I will try and recall the lines in which I once applied to Gathy for such a loan.
— from My Autobiography: A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

There are rich traders, men who have made discoveries in the economy of distribution, or who have called attention by intelligent, truthful advertisement to the possibilities of neglected commodities, for example.”
— from A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Adding Professor Davidson and his assistants to their party, the Active returned to Kootznahoo, and visited the coal mine near Chief Andres village, and spent another day on a fishing frolic in Clam Bay.
— from Alaska, Its Southern Coast and the Sitkan Archipelago by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore