Frequently its posture is characteristic, as it lies quietly on its back with one thigh everted and flexed on the abdomen.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Sam thought he might as well talk to this groom as to any one else, especially as he was very tired with walking, and there was a good large stone just opposite the wheel-barrow; so he strolled down the lane, and, seating himself on the stone, opened a conversation with the ease and freedom for which he was remarkable.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Into the details of the former display and carriage of these now obscene symbols in the popular celebrations; of the behavior of even respectable citizens during the excitement and frenzy of the festivals; of their presence in the wayside shrines; of the philosophy, hideousness or pathos of the subject, we cannot here enter.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Adam fell from life to death, into the deep [16] of this wretched world, and after that into hell: God's Son fell with Adam, into the deep [17] of the Maiden's womb, who was the fairest daughter of Adam; and for this end: to excuse Adam from blame in heaven and in earth; and mightily He fetched him out of hell.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

Nearchus says, that the old question respecting the rise of the Nile is answered by the case of the Indian rivers, namely, that it is the effect of summer rains; when Alexander saw crocodiles in the Hydaspes, and Egyptian beans in the Acesines, he thought that he had discovered the sources of the Nile, and was about to equip a fleet with the intention of sailing by this river to Egypt; but he found out shortly afterwards that his design could not be accomplished, “for in midway were vast rivers, fearful waters, and first the ocean,” 355 into which all the Indian rivers discharge themselves; then Ariana, the Persian and Arabian Gulfs, all Arabia and Troglodytica.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

The Third Part Of His Office Was To Be King (Under His Father) Of The Elect As for the third part of his Office, which was to be King, I have already shewn that his Kingdome was not to begin till the Resurrection.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

A little Neglect may breed great Mischief: adding, for want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the Enemy; all for the want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail .
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

Nevertheless, with such means as they had, it was determined to resist to the last, and to provide timber and money, and to equip a fleet as they best could, to take steps to secure their confederates and above all Euboea, to reform things in the city upon a more economical footing, and to elect a board of elders to advise upon the state of affairs as occasion should arise.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

In Canada, on the other hand, the Americans had failed, and it remained to the end a firm base to the English power.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

They were tied to prevent their flying away, doubled up with their knees close to their ears; and for the trussing of them the black pirate had cut a rope into nine equal pieces.
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

They had their dinner at this estancia and Francisco ate bread made from powdered peanuts mixed with wheat flour and he found it very delicious.
— from Francisco, Our Little Argentine Cousin by Eva Cannon Brooks

To be fat without food, to be warm without fire, to be wakeful without sleep, to be clad without clothes, to be known as a vagabond, and to pass current for unblemished honesty, to be praised as a liar, and then thrashed for lying,—is too much to expect at fifteen years of age.
— from Confessions Of Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

Omicron two Eridani, a flying-star, 95 .
— from Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments by Garrett Putman Serviss

In His Farewell Audience to Professor Peabody, of Harvard, He Said: "We Must Stand Together." Back from Berlin, where he occupied for a time a chair at the University, under the existing arrangement for exchanges, Professor Peabody, of Harvard, is aiming to straighten the American conceptions of Germany.
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various

[516] On the Sunday, towards evening, a few hours after the flag of St. George had been planted on the fort, the Earl of Salisbury, with William Glasdale and several captains, went up one of the towers to observe the lie of the city.
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France

O my child, My truant little boy, despite the beard, The body two feet broad and six feet long, And what the calendar counts middle age— You wanted, did you, to enjoy a flight?
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

From the pole to the equator, and from the equator to the further pole, there is no monarch like Love.
— from Dawn by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

They live in the interior of the trunks of trees, the wood of which they eat, and form their habitations of the galleries which they thus excavate.
— from Insect Architecture by James Rennie

In haste .” Thuillier opened the envelope, and found within a copy of a ministerial journal which had hitherto shown itself discourteous to the new paper by refusing the exchange which all periodicals usually make very willingly with one another.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

But before offering to the student the history of the psychic and spiritual evolution of the direct antediluvian fathers of our Fifth (Âryan) Humanity, and before demonstrating its bearing upon all the other side branches grown from the same trunk, we have to elucidate a few more facts.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky