This, with the Mandarin Testament mentioned above, forms the ordinary Chinese Bible in general use by Christians in China, and is read at every service from the lecterns in the China Mission of the American Episcopal Church, as mentioned in the organ of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the American Church.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Say that urgent business calls us home immediately.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

For since all actions and sensations of the mind are known to us by consciousness, they must necessarily appear in every particular what they are, and be what they appear.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Men of the breaking hearts had a quality about them not known to or understood by common men.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

With this increased force, attempts were made upon both Cartagena and Santiago de Cuba, in the years 1741 and 1742, but in both wretched failures resulted; the admiral and the general quarrelled, as was not uncommon in days when neither had an intelligent comprehension of the other's business.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

He is older now (you and I may whisper it) and a trifle stooped in the shoulders yet in the whirligig of years a grave dignity has come to the conscientious second accountant of the Ulster bank, College Green branch.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

If an individual work is unprotected by copyright law in the United States and you are located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg are removed.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Since each purana contains a cosmogony, both mythological and heroic history, the works which bear that title may not unaptly be compared to the Grecian theogonies” (‘Essay on the Sanskrit and Pracrit Languages,’ by H. T. Colebrooke, Esq.; As.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

As many as 200 were picked up by Colonel Masters.”
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Yet so similar is the entire structure and working of their minds that the psychological textbooks of the Anglo-Saxon are adopted and perfectly understood by competent psychological students among the Japanese.
— from Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick

Our friends are good to us but can't they understand that we ache?"
— from The High School Boys' Canoe Club by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Sidon was probably the most ancient, and until B. C. 1050, the most flourishing, of all the Phœnician communities.
— from A Manual of Ancient History by M. E. (Mary Elsie) Thalheimer

It is this same inevitable Charles Darwin who says that a man may be made more unhappy by committing a breach of etiquette than by falling into sin.
— from The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York by Edward Eggleston

We were in a higgledy-piggledy looking corner, surrounded by rough shelters or stables for animals, horses and camels, and the unfinished but covered approaches to the Mahdi's tomb.
— from Khartoum Campaign, 1898; or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh

How could he blame her if she had ultimately been convinced by the only reasonable assumption possible?
— from The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini

The exterior stratum of red clay, with its ores and minerals, will be best understood by comparing it to a garment thrown over the rock-formations of the country.
— from Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft