Thus, being launched again into the gulf of misery, unless a miracle of grace prevent it, they everlastingly perish in their own deceivings. {382} Now I saw in my dream, that by this time the Pilgrims were got over the Enchanted Ground, and entering into the country of Beulah, whose air was very sweet and pleasant, the way lying directly through it, they solaced themselves there for a season.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

It used to be the custom in those days that in the evening performances in the only theatre the town possessed, spectators were admitted to the part called the "flies," over the stage, and every machinist had one or two places to give away.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

the wind rose and the rain became very hard Soon after we landed here we were very friendly receved by the natives who gave all our party as much fish as they Could eate, they also gave us Wappato and pashaquaw roots to eate prepared in their own way.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Therefore through the allegory a conception has always to be signified, and consequently the mind of the beholder has to be drawn away from the expressed perceptible idea to one which is entirely different, abstract and not perceptible, and which lies quite outside the work of art.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Once more the effect produced is that of the snowball.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

For he says "hatred, variance, emulations, strife, envying" are the works of the flesh; and of all these evils pride is the origin and head, and it rules in the devil though he has no flesh.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

I issued about two ounces to each person, including the offals, and saved the remainder for dinner the next day.
— from A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; And The Subsequent Voyage Of Part Of The Crew, In The Ship's Boat by William Bligh

It is usually in the external parts, in the organs by which the animal adapts itself to its environment, that one meets with the greatest number of analogical resemblances.
— from Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

It should be borne in mind, that the constitution of man demands a variety of food, and that it is just as cheap to keep on hand a good variety of materials in the store-closet, so as to make a frequent change, as it is to buy one or two articles at once, and live on them exclusively, till every person is tired of them, and then buy two or three more of another kind.
— from Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book Designed as a Supplement to Her Treatise on Domestic Economy by Catharine Esther Beecher

New Zealand, considering its territorial extent, participates in this oceanic equality in an extraordinary degree, by reason of its insularity and [5] oblong narrow figure, stretching across the course of the prevalent winds from lat.
— from Prospectus of the Scots New Zealand Land Company by Scots New Zealand Land Company

[Transcriber's Note: The following typographical errors, present in the original text, have been corrected.
— from The Regent's Daughter by Alexandre Dumas

THE END Transcriber's Note: The following typographical errors present in the original edition have been corrected.
— from A Prairie Courtship by Harold Bindloss

Those who have obtained their selfish objects will not take especial pleasure in thinking of them to-day, while to unbiassed minds must come sad thoughts of national honor soiled in the eyes of other nations, of a great inheritance risked, if not forfeited.
— from Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. by Margaret Fuller

With very few exceptions, the Greek churches of the earlier period (including the older church of St. Sophia, whether as originally built by Constantine and restored by his son, or as rebuilt by Theodosius) were of that oblong form which the Greeks called "dromic" and which is known in the west as the type of the basilica.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

He spake not, but took her hand and held it; and presently she looked up again and said: Thou art good, and wilt not be angry if I ask thee something else; this it is: Why wert thou so grim with me that other day when ye found me in that evil plight in tow of the Red Tyrant, so that I deemed that thou of all others hadst cast me off?
— from The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris