For he teaches there how the interior Bow is made in round Drops of Rain by two Refractions of the Sun's Light, and one Reflexion between them, and the exterior by two Refractions, and two sorts of Reflexions between them in each Drop of Water, and proves his Explications by Experiments made with a Phial full of Water, and with Globes of Glass filled with Water, and placed in the Sun to make the Colours of the two Bows appear in them.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

We saw that death does not trouble it, because it exists as something included in life itself and belonging to it.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

One of them, a thoroughly Indian story, full of exaggerations and impossibilities, is the legend, told in Book I., of the descent of the Ganges.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

In the case even of the most reserved women, their eyes redden at the moment when hope is conceived: the passion is so strong, the pleasure so keen, that it betrays itself by striking signs.
— from On Love by Stendhal

This farther I desire may be taken notice of out of Barclay, that he says, The mischief that is designed them, the people may prevent before it be done: whereby he allows resistance when tyranny is but in design.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

The evening came, and nobody appeared to bring the poor bird a drop of water; it opened its beautiful wings, and fluttered about in its anguish; a faint and mournful "Tweet, tweet," was all it could utter, then it bent its little head towards the flower, and its heart broke for want and longing.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

When the Parliament of Paris remonstrated, or refused to enregister an edict, or when it summoned a functionary accused of malversation to its bar, its political influence as a judicial body was clearly visible; but nothing of the kind is to be seen in the United States.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

And as to the multitude of those that were slain in Egypt, and that with torments also, we have been informed they were more than sixty thousand; those indeed being in a foreign country, and so naturally meeting with nothing to oppose against their enemies, were killed in the manner forementioned.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

The queen assents, and from the infernal bowers Invokes the sable subtartarean powers, And those who rule the inviolable floods, Whom mortals name the dread Titanian gods.
— from The Iliad by Homer

We question not but where there is beauty it is still more beautiful in sleep.
— from Jane Sinclair; Or, The Fawn Of Springvale The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

He has a feather fan like a peacock’s tail; he speaks like the cockatoo, only he differs from them in being infallible; and he is infallible, because another bird, also marvellous, which is called the Holy Ghost, tells him by night everything that takes place on earth and in heaven.
— from Cæsar or Nothing by Pío Baroja

The strongest, and with me quite decisive, argument against it was the introduction into our Constitution of a principle so perfectly novel and anomalous; the merit of the Scotch Union having been, and that of the Irish being intended to be, its simplicity, and the precision with which everything new is accommodated to the existing state of our Constitution and Government.
— from Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

Birds and all other flying creatures are now very abundant in all the islands; but I could tell you some curious and interesting facts, too, as to the mode of their arrival and the vicissitudes of their settlement.
— from Science in Arcady by Grant Allen

One was, the continuance of the {220} contraband trade already referred to, in both imports and exports; in which, as already related, the governor himself was charged with participating.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

In combustion (or burning) the same changes take place with much greater rapidity, and the same amount of heat being concentrated, or brought out in a far shorter time, it becomes intense, and therefore apparent.
— from The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools by George E. (George Edwin) Waring

With proper diet and medicine I began to improve, but it was months before I quite recovered.
— from At the Court of the Amîr: A Narrative by John Alfred Gray

When greater loads have to be carried, the I beam is enlarged and built up of metal plates riveted together and thus becomes a plate girder.
— from The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke

The altimeter on the instrument board in front of Flight Lieutenant Wiggins said twenty thousand feet.
— from Dave Dawson with the R.A.F. by Robert Sidney Bowen