Although the Cherokee are probably the largest and most important tribe in the United States, having their own national government and numbering at any time in their history from 20,000 to 25,000 persons, almost nothing has yet been written of their history or general ethnology, as compared with the literature of such northern tribes as the Delawares, the Iroquois, or the Ojibwa.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Meanwhile Captain Nemo strolled from one end of the platform to the other, not glancing at me, perhaps not even seeing me.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

As to his justice, he took himself the pains to hear the parties, and although he would out of curiosity inquire what religion they were of, nevertheless, the antipathy he had to ours never gave any counterpoise to the balance.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

These, however, I would fain persuade myself were rather the effect of her education than her disposition: she had never been perfectly taught the distinction between right and wrong; she had, like her brothers and sisters, been suffered, from infancy, to tyrannize over nurses, governesses, and servants; she had not been taught to moderate her desires, to control her temper or bridle her will, or to sacrifice her own pleasure for the good of others.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

A death by violence, and painful wounds, Are to our neighbour given; and in his substance Ruin, and arson, and injurious levies; Whence homicides, and he who smites unjustly, Marauders, and freebooters, the first round Tormenteth all in companies diverse.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

There would have been no science if it had only been concerned about that one naked goddess and nothing else.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

We may let nature take its own course, only trimming and embellishing a little here and there; and finally, without any knowledge or consideration, we may even allow the plants to spring up in accordance with their own natural growth and limitations, and fight out their battle among themselves,—nay, we can even take delight in such chaos, though we may possibly have a hard time with it!
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is highly significant that all these tribes of New Guinea apply the same word to the bull-roarer and to the monster, who is supposed to swallow the novices at circumcision, and whose fearful roar is represented by the hum of the harmless wooden instruments.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The charred remains of the house still project above the surrounding heaps of fallen masonry, which have long been overgrown by such vegetation as thrives on neglected ground; and what was once a stately house, with its garden and park in fine order, has given place to a scene of desolation and ruin.
— from The Stoneground Ghost Tales Compiled from the recollections of the reverend Roland Batchel, the vicar of the parish. by E. G. (Edmund Gill) Swain

You won't act without something pretty definite to go upon, while the scandalmongers will talk on no grounds at all.
— from The Loudwater Mystery by Edgar Jepson

As soon as the Royal party were perceived, they were surrounded by a troop of National Guards as an escort, and a large number of officers of the Line in various uniforms.
— from Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg

Günther’s classification being the one now generally adopted, I copy the names assigned by him, and the diagrams given in his work.
— from Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley

Whenever the name of Sir Philip Sidney is mentioned one involuntarily thinks of noble generosity and knightly gentleness and self-sacrifice.
— from Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb

It relates, in a mystical strain, the adventures of the soul after death, and explains how, by reciting the names and titles of numberless gods, and by means of other theological knowledge, the soul can make its way to the hall of Osiris.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

Neither could she write to order, nor give an official report of her work.
— from Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary by W. P. (William Pringle) Livingstone

Spend it 'not wisely but too well'—not that one need give any girl advice on that subject!
— from Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

But now, during those past months, he had met Andreas twice or thrice, on neutral ground, as it were, and the relations between them, though distant and distinctly strained, had been nominally friendly.
— from Linnet: A Romance by Grant Allen