To understand that the sky is blue everywhere, we need not go round the world.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

So he had them up to their several places, and also showed them a very fair dining-room, where they might be, and sup together, until time should come to go to rest.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

Everybody declared that there never had been such a perfect day or such a jolly set to enjoy it, and everyone gave themselves up to the simple pleasures of the hour as freely as if there were no such things as care or sorrow in the world.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Giving us to understand that the separate knots of the general network already covering Russia number by now several hundred, and propounding the theory that if every one does his work successfully, all Russia at a given moment, at a signal …” “Ah, damn it all, I have enough to do without you!” cried Pyotr Stepanovitch, twisting in his chair.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And so there is no need then of a friendly outspokenness, nor of weighty or caustic words, but truly in such reverses "it is sweet to look into the eyes of a friendly person," 458 consoling 191 and cheering one up: as Xenophon 459 tells us that the sight of Clearchus in battle and dangers, and his calm benevolent face, inspired courage in his men when in peril.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

He longed to fire, to use the thin sharp bayonet on his chasse-pot.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

a Canoe, thro the waves, which is verry high and role with great fury—They made Signs to us that they Saw the 3 men we Sent down yesterday.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Will you please come to the understanding that there shall be another interview on the subject?' 'With Charley, Mr Headstone?' 'With—well,' he answered, breaking off, 'yes!
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Plato tells us that the story of the rape of Orithyïa is but an allegory, which signifies that, by accident, she was blown by the wind into the sea, where she was drowned.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

They used to teach school together in Cleveland.
— from From Canal Boy to President; Or, the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

"He returned late in the afternoon, before the meeting at the Old South had broken up, and reported to them that the governor refused a permit until a clearance should be shown him; and the collector refused that until the tea should be landed."
— from Elsie Yachting with the Raymonds by Martha Finley

The party consented accordingly to proceed to Manchester, but on the understanding that they should return as soon as possible, and refrain from farther festivity.
— from The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive by Samuel Smiles

And when the wives died, they were taken up to the sky, where they are now known as Gwaibillah, the red star, so called from its bright red colour, owing, the legend says, to the red marks left by the stakes on the bodies of the two women, and which nothing could efface.
— from Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies by K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) Parker

It was here that I came to understand the true spirit of English musical culture, which is bound up with the spirit of English Protestantism.
— from My Life — Volume 2 by Richard Wagner

After chatting with them upon the topics she considered suitable to their age, she asked to see their wardrobe, which she examined, article by article, with interest and curiosity.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II by Various

He bounded in triumph up the three steps which led to the door, and as he did so there was a crash behind him.
— from Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life by Arthur Conan Doyle

When the two men, who both were tall and strong, entered with the first loads, it was with difficulty they could keep their feet, as the water, during the greater part of the way, took them up to the shoulders; the recompense they asked, half a dollar each, was, however, very dearly earned, as they had each to cross the river backwards and forwards about twelve times, which occupied more than two hours.
— from Travels in the Interior of Brazil Principally through the northern provinces, and the gold and diamond districts, during the years 1836-1841 by George Gardner

Both day and year are somewhat shorter than Terra's, but they use the Terran Standard system for record-keeping, which leads to some interesting anomalies, such as the last of the twenty-four hours being only forty-seven minutes long.
— from Concordance: A Terran Empire concordance by Ann Wilson