[119] The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

He was spared by the usurper, and reduced to attend his triumph both in peace and war; but as the army was encamped on the sea-shore, an Italian vessel facilitated the escape of the royal youth; and, in the disguise of a common sailor, he eluded the search of his enemies, passed the Hellespont, and found a secure refuge in the Isle of Sicily.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

We undoubtedly have a different conception of this unity and relationship than the primitive, but beneath these different symbols, the truth affirmed by the two is the same.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

I spent nearly the whole of the first month of my vacation in an effort to find something to do by which I could earn money to pay my way back to Hampton and save a little money to use after reaching there.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Hearing his name called several times, he had taken up a revolver to protect himself from possible danger, and had shot his own wife, who had had the eccentric idea of teasing him by pretending to be a ghost.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

—In order to measure the natural subtlety or weakness of even the cleverest heads, we must consider the manner in which they take up and reproduce the opinions of their adversaries, for the natural measure of any intellect is thereby revealed.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In the present circumstances of our alliance with these States, every trait of national character, and even every traditional incident, which, by leading us to understand and respect their peculiarities, may enable us to secure their friendship and esteem, become of infinite importance.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

‘Write that down,’ the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Afterwards he made ready for his journey, and went to the Uplands, and remained the winter there; going about in guest-quarters, and putting things to rights where he saw it needful, advancing also the cause of Christianity wheresoever it was requisite.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

In the tribunal of the upper air Related the affair.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Therefore, through his advice the paper was held until after the victory at Antietam, when the country was further educated and better able to understand and receive the real issue of the war.
— from Hidden Treasures; Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail by Harry A. Lewis

Tolle, lege; tolle, lege ; Take up and read, take up and read the Scriptures, (for unto them was the direction,) it was said unto St. Augustine by a supernatural voice.
— from Lectures on Bible Revision by Samuel Newth

Slowly unfolding, it laid itself down on the carpet, as flat as if it had been ironed; the split joined with a little sharp crick-crack, and the rim turned up all round till it was breast-high; for the meantime the cloak had grown and grown, and become quite large enough for one person to sit in it, as comfortable as if in a boat.
— from The Little Lame Prince Rewritten for Young Readers by Margaret Waters by Margaret Waters

The fish bit eagerly, and all three were kept actively employed in drawing them up, and rebaiting the hooks.
— from At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

But unfortunately the expulsion of James II, which he called his "abdication," compelled him to use all reserve, to shuffle and to tergiversate, in order to avoid making William out a usurper.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

From the basement stores she procured the frame and fixtures, and returning with them by the same winding route upward, found it not such a difficult thing to unhinge and replace the shattered transparency, the tempest having lulled slightly, and the force of the wind being broken.
— from Harper's Young People, May 2, 1882 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

“That night we crossed the Umzimvubu, and reached the big forest below the Tabankulu.
— from The White Hecatomb, and Other Stories by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the state of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
— from The Short Constitution by William F. (William Fletcher) Russell

"Why, this morning I was thinking I would come here so early, when the first thing I knew, Aunt Fortune brought out all those heaps and heaps of apples into the kitchen, and made me sit down on the floor, and then she gave me a great big needle, and set me to stringing them all together; and as fast as I strung them, she hung them up all round the ceiling.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

The being which has attained harmony, and every being may attain it, has found its place in the order of the universe, and represents the divine thought at least as clearly as a flower or a solar system.
— from Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel by Henri Frédéric Amiel