Besides the regular sentries, three or four men, habited as hussars, used to do duty at the Palace, but I never saw them on horseback, and au fait, what was the use of cavalry in a time of profound peace?—and whither the deuce should the hussars ride? Everybody—everybody that was noble of course, for as for the bourgeois we could not quite be expected to take notice of THEM—visited his neighbour.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

On entering the deeper defiles, above them towered dark green masses of pine, and occasionally the madrono shook its bright scarlet berries.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

My repinings kindle the divine wrath, when I should endeavour to draw down mercy.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

Fairy: see Apparitions , Angel , Astral Spirits , Banshee , Brownie , Bucca , Changelings , Corrigan , Cult , Dead , Death , Devil , Dwarfs , Elementals , Ellyllon ( Elves ) , Fates , Fées , Fenodyree , Fir Bolgs , Fomors , Ghost , Gnomes , Goblin , Goddesses , Grac’hed coz , Kelpy , Lapps , Lares , Lemures , Leprechaun , Lutins , Manes , Mermaid , Morgan , Nereids , Penates , Phantom , Pict , Pixies , Proserpine , Puck , Salamanders , Satyrs , Shape-shifting , Siabra , Sidhe , Soul , Spirits , Succubi , Swan-Maidens , Sylph , Troll , Tuatha De Danann , Undines ,
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

This exhibition was of use in another way, by convincing me how easily we may be misguided by our imagination; for when I first looked through Dr. Duchenne's photographs, reading at the same time the text, and thus learning what was intended, I was struck with admiration at the truthfulness of all, with only a few exceptions.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

In this Kingdom of Xalisco (according to report) they burnt Eight Hundred Towns to Ashes, and for this Reason the Indians growing desperate, beholding the dayly destruction of the Remainders of their matchless Cruelty, made an Insurrection against the Spaniards , slew several of them justly and deservedly, and afterward fled to the insensible Rocks and Mountains (yet more tender and kind than the stony-hearted Enemy) for Sanctuary; where they were miserably Massacred by those Tyrants who succeeded, and there are now few, or none of the Inhabitants to be found.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

The springtime's pallid landscape Will glow like bright bouquet, Though drifted deep in parian
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

She then wandered long, and sped through divers desert and circuitous paths, and happened to come to the hut of a certain huge woman of the woods, who set her to the task of pasturing her goats.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Clouds overlaid the sky as with a shroud of mist, and everything looked sad, rainy, and threatening under a fine drizzle which was beating against the window-panes, and streaking their dull, dark surfaces with runlets of cold, dirty moisture.
— from Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I had intended to pass him to come into the room where he dressed himself, so as not to keep the Duc d'Humieres waiting; but I was so astonished that I stood stock still.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

Many times I turned away from it, with the key in my hand, but always the Devil drove me back again.
— from Sindbad the Sailor, & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights by Anonymous

In Italy a battle was fought at Casano, between prince Eugene and the duke de Vendôme, with dubious success.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Now, whereas thou sawest, that so soon as the first began to sweep, the dust did so fly about that the room by him could not be cleansed, but that thou wast almost choked therewith; this is to show thee, that the law, instead of cleansing the heart (by its working) from sin, doth revive, put strength into, and increase it in the soul, even as it doth discover and forbid it, for it doth not give power to subdue[37] (Rom. 7:6; 1 Cor.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

"She'll be able to buy us bully ones; she has lots of money these days," declared one listener.
— from The Grammar School Boys of Gridley; or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

[260] Then David despaired of remaining in the city and fled; he retired again into the desert by the Dead Sea near Ziph and Maon.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 2 (of 6) by Max Duncker