Sometimes, however, in ordinary discourse, the term is rather employed to denote a particular kind of agreeable consciousness, which is distinguished from and even contrasted with definite specific pleasures—such as the gratifications of sensual appetite or other keen and vehement desires—as being at once calmer and more indefinite: we may characterise it as the feeling which accompanies the normal activity of a “healthy mind in a healthy body,” and of which specific pleasures seem [93] to be rather stimulants than elements.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

He also sent Menes down to the sea, as governor of Syria, Phœnicia, and Cilicia, giving him 3,000 talents of silver 439 to convey to the sea, with orders to despatch as many of them to Antipater as he might need to carry on the war against the Lacedaemonians.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

So let all teaching truth to thee in this life awaken in thee a greater desire to sit at the supper of the great King in His kingdom; for all preaching, books, and services here, are but as the laying of the dishes, and as setting of salt upon the board, when compared with the feast which our Lord will make for us when we come to His house.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

This morning at the office, and, that being done, home to dinner all alone, my wife being ill in pain a-bed, which I was troubled at, and not a little impatient.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Buck had already dragged down a stray part-grown calf; but he wished strongly for larger and more formidable quarry, and he came upon it one day on the divide at the head of the creek.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

My uncle resolved to run up into the Downs at once, but the wind shifting when we were abreast of the Isle of Wight, he was obliged to turn into St. Helen's, and come to Spithead, to the great mortification of the crew, thirty of whom were immediately pressed on board a man-of-war.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

He staggered back, lurched backwards against the door, and went into the drawing-room, crimson, and overcome with confusion.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Raoul first taught me to dress a falcon.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The rebels, however, did not relinquish their designs, and many personal encounters took place between the uncle and nephew:
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Over one shoulder a blanket, negligently but gracefully thrown, disclosed a bare and powerful breast, decorated with a quantity of three-cent postage-stamps which he had despoiled from an Overland Mail stage a few weeks previous.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Excepting only on Sundays, when it was waived, from a motive of religious pride, this humiliating reverence was exacted from all who entered the royal presence, from the princes invested with the diadem and purple, and from the ambassadors who represented their independent sovereigns, the caliphs of Asia, Egypt, or Spain, the kings of France and Italy, and the Latin emperors of ancient Rome.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

I wheeled it to the edge of [176] the descent, and was much delighted to see it go speeding down to the base of the hill, gathering momentum at every turn of the wheels, and ending up by hitting the back door of Uncle Zibb's cottage with such force that it came out of the front parlor window before stopping.
— from The Autobiography of Methuselah by John Kendrick Bangs

But, behind them, the two mothers extended their arms, agitated their dried and wrinkled hands, which on the marriage day had distributed in vain the augural grain.
— from The Triumph of Death by Gabriele D'Annunzio

He draughted laws for Frederic of Trinacria which that enlightened monarch promulgated and enforced, and his advice to Frederic and his brother Jayme II. of Aragon on their duties as monarchs stamps him as a conscientious statesman.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

The witch hag that dwelt on that hillside of Rosnaree called Fan-na-carpat, or the Slope of the Chariots, had cast a druidical spell over Toma, by which she was able to knead a loaf that would last twenty days and twenty nights, and one mouthful of which would satisfy hunger for that length of time.
— from Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

So on nights when strange noises came from without, and the wild birds keckled with a sound that might be mistaken for the neighing of horses, Julian Wemyss betook himself to his strong tower, and, locking the door at the top of the stone staircase, went peacefully to sleep, till the morrow showed up wide wet sands, whipped by the wind, many tracks of horses among the dunes, and, dipping far down the channel towards St. Bees, the top-sails of a schooner, which might be the much-sought-for Good Intent , or, again, might not.
— from Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Once taste clear potato-water, and you will not aspire to drink a strong broth from it.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Here we see the decadent art of classic Rome transformed and vivified by Asiatic influences.
— from Galicia, the Switzerland of Spain by Annette M. B. Meakin

At noon with him to dinner at Boreman's, where Mr. Seymour with us, who is a most conceited fellow and not over much in him.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

The several departments of power are distributed and blended in such a manner as at once to destroy all symmetry and beauty of form, and to expose some of the essential parts of the edifice to the danger of being crushed by the disproportionate weight of other parts.
— from Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Martin Van Buren