The hide of a tiger or a leopard stripped of its hair, is like the hide of a dog or a goat stripped of its hair.' CHAP.
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

[28] Ambaji’s 527 lieutenant and Lakwa were once more equal foes, and the Rana, his chiefs and subjects being distracted between these conflicting bands, whose leaders alternately paid their respects to him, were glad to obtain a little repose by espousing the cause of either combatant, whose armies during the monsoon encamped for six weeks within sight of each other.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

She would gladly retire from this whirl of fashion, and we often picture to ourselves a life of undisturbed happiness in distant scenes of rural retirement: and then we speak of you, my dear Charlotte; for she knows you, and renders homage to your merits; but her homage is not exacted, but voluntary, she loves you, and delights to hear you made the subject of conversation.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stretched out in various attitudes over the floor, he may see numberless sleeping forms of every shade of complexion, from the purest ebony to white, and of all years, from childhood to old age, lying now asleep.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The division of labor is here, again, if not the only, at least the principal, source of the social solidarity.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

“One day I was lying on his sofa, arguing that there was no more ungrateful profession than that of a lawyer.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I knew that if these people left me that they would immediately disperse and secrete themselves in the mountains where it would be impossible to find them or at least in vain to pursue them and that they would spread the allarm to all other bands within our reach & of course we should be disappointed in obtaining horses, which would vastly retard and increase the labour of our voyage and I feared might so discourage the men as to defeat the expedition altogether.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

One thing more Sir W. Coventry did say to the Duke of York, when I moved again, that of about L9000 debt to Lanyon, at Plymouth, he might pay L3700 worth of prize-goods, that he bought lately at the candle, out of this debt due to him from the King; and the Duke of York, and Sir G: Carteret, and Lord Barkeley, saying, all of them, that my Lord Ashly would not be got to yield to it, who is Treasurer of the Prizes, Sir W. Coventry did plainly desire that it might be declared whether the proceeds of the prizes were to go to the helping on of the war, or no; and, if it were, how then could this be denied?
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

On one side was a coral reef; on the other a low tongue of land, covered with mangrove thickets that grew out into the water.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The order, at least the fundamental order, which it seeks and finds among the objects it investigates is spatial .
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

This palace is a monumental history of France in the earliest times, just as Blois is that of a later period.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

They lacked the grace of the Latin, the charm of the Slav, the overgrown angel look of the English, the prettiness that the American has achieved.
— from Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

Viewed sideways, it assumes, as described by M'Culloch, the form of a perpendicular but ruinous rampart, much gapped above, that runs for about a mile and a quarter along the top of a lofty sloping talus.
— from The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Hugh Miller

Grant was just then beginning to develop the traits of a leader, which were to mark him later as the greatest captain of his time.
— from Angels of the Battlefield A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War by George Barton

Two cases are serious: Lieutenant P. Dent had part of his skull taken off, and Lieutenant Caffin had a compound fracture of the shoulder-blade.
— from Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege by Henry Woodd Nevinson

Put the dish in the oven and let it stay just long enough to set the egg.
— from The Golden Rule Cook Book: Six hundred recipes for meatless dishes by M. R. L. (Maud Russell Lorraine) Sharpe

Two incidents that supervened, one a little before and the other a little after the battle of St. Aubin-du-Cormier, occurred to both embarrass the position and at the same time call forth all the energy of Anne.
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3 by François Guizot

Beneath its stalls at night, many a 'lodger' often slumbered; and every Sunday morning it was the theatre of a lively and amusing scene, wherein was performed the renowned pastime of 'niggers dancing for eels.'
— from City Crimes; Or, Life in New York and Boston by George Thompson