His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure—all the more intense for being held tightly in—his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

He would eagerly look out for the evening papers in the hope of seeing it among the articles found.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

Qui mala non fert, ipse sibi testis est per impatientiam quod bonus non est , he that cannot bear injuries, witnesseth against himself that he is no good man, as Gregory holds.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Esthonian reapers of the island of Mon think that the man who cuts the first ears of corn at harvest will get pains in his back, probably because the corn-spirit is believed to resent especially the first wound; and, in order to escape pains in the back, Saxon reapers in Transylvania gird their loins with the first handful of ears which they cut.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

This will not happen to every prophetic idea; we may live in fear and trembling as easily as with an arrogant consciousness of power.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The editio princeps , including the Harivaṃça , but without any commentary, was published in four volumes at Calcutta in 1834–39.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

But if the area of the economic process is almost invariably coterminous with the widest areas of cultural influence, it does not extend to the smaller social groups.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Wherever a creature has to deal with complex features of the environment, prudence is a virtue.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

If the reader will sum up what we have hitherto briefly, very briefly, indicated, neglecting a thousand proofs and also a thousand objections of detail, he will be led to this: that architecture was, down to the fifteenth century, the chief register of humanity; that in that interval not a thought which is in any degree complicated made its appearance in the world, which has not been worked into an edifice; that every popular idea, and every religious law, has had its monumental records; that the human race has, in short, had no important thought which it has not written in stone.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

She has served them well, but the profit to either party is questionable.
— from Women and Economics A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

THE END Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, BRUNSWICK ST., STAMFORD ST., S.E. 1, AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.
— from Round about Bar-le-Duc by Susanne R. (Susanne Rouviere) Day

When we leave the regions which lie near the Euphrates, the imitation of Assyria, though equally perceptible, is, perhaps, less servile and more free; a larger number of original elements enter into the composition of the scenes.
— from Manual of Oriental Antiquities by Ernest Babelon

—This vestment was quite unknown in the earlier period: it was a mediaeval invention.
— from Ecclesiastical Vestments: Their development and history by Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister

But another said that this Argument was false, therefore he contradicted him with a Syllogism of the second Figure of the fourth Mode, thus: Every Philosopher is wise: some Beasts are not wise, Therefore some Beasts are not Philosophers.
— from The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World by Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of

Northern Mariana Islands active volcanoes on Pagan and Agrihan; typhoons (especially August to November) Norway rockslides, avalanches Oman summer winds often raise large sandstorms and dust storms in interior; periodic droughts Pacific Ocean surrounded by a zone of violent volcanic and earthquake activity sometimes referred to as the "Pacific Ring of Fire"; subject to tropical cyclones (typhoons) in southeast and east Asia from May to December (most frequent from July to October); tropical cyclones (hurricanes) may form south of Mexico and strike Central America and Mexico from June to October (most common in August and September); cyclical El Nino/La Nina phenomenon occurs in the equatorial Pacific, influencing weather in the Western Hemisphere and the western Pacific; ships subject to superstructure icing in extreme north from October to May; persistent fog in the northern Pacific can be a maritime hazard from June to December Pakistan frequent earthquakes, occasionally severe especially in north and west; flooding along the Indus after heavy rains (July and August)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The executive power invested in the Supreme Commander of the Army (OKH) and in agencies determined by him shall not be affected by this.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 3 by Various

The coils of wire upon the field magnets surround not only the iron poles or shells, but are situated also so as to surround likewise the revolving armature, and increase the effect produced in it by direct induction and magnetism.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 by Various

"We will dress up, and go round to all the evening parties," I decided.
— from The Little Angel, and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev