" Ulysses looked fiercely at him and said, "Son of Atreus, what are you talking about?
— from The Iliad by Homer

There is a feminine tenderness and sensuality in it, which modestly and unconsciously longs for a UNIO MYSTICA ET PHYSICA, as in the case of Madame de Guyon.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Others have different rates for users living far away.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

In the Laws Plato represents one of the persons of the dialogue as having been asked by the people of Gortyna to draw up laws for a colony which they were founding.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Finally, Shakespeare no longer restricts the action to purely human agencies, as in the two preceding tragedies; portents once more fill the heavens, ghosts rise from their graves, an unearthly light flickers about the head of the doomed man.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

They are in themselves generally useless, like footprints; and yet almost any sign of man's passage might, under certain conditions, interest a man.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

" Before considering modern theories, let us look first at consciousness from the standpoint of conventional psychology, since this embodies views which naturally occur when we begin to reflect upon the subject.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Fortunately I soon learned to separate theological from moral prejudices, and I gave up looking for a supernatural origin of evil.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Cibot, too, had made immense progress in his esteem in those three weeks; without her he felt that he should have been utterly lost; for as for Schmucke, the poor invalid looked upon him as a second Pons.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Every moment here and there a great liquid bubbling would break through the crust, and make a wallowing heap upon the flat, then sink again, leaving an open red well-pool of fire whence the rays shot up like flame, although flame there was none.
— from Thomas Wingfold, Curate by George MacDonald

It had been baked and sweetened, and then ground up like flour and put in bags.
— from The Adventures of a Forty-niner An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days by Daniel Knower

Una longed for a love-scene on the motion-picture screen.
— from The Job: An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis

There I saw numerous iron undersides, the phantasmagoric ruins of steamers, some lying down, others rearing up like fearsome animals.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

[Footnote: Uyezdnoe , which may be rendered as "something provincial."] are as intense and packed with suggestive ugliness as anything in Remizov, but lack the master's unerring linguistic flair and his profound and inclusive humanness.
— from Tales of the Wilderness by Boris Pilniak

To get a true view of the case let us look for a few moments at some other parts of the world, and ask ourselves a few questions.
— from Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Sidney Lewis Gulick

The disease begins to appear on the leaves some time in July and by the middle of August there is usually little foliage alive.
— from Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants A Book of Valuable Information for Growers as Well as Collectors of Medicinal Roots, Barks, Leaves, Etc. by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding

As he concluded, Cumberland, attended by a gamekeeper leading a shooting pony, came up, looking flushed and angry.
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

For a further illustration of this inevitability of structure, let us look for a moment at the parable of "The Prodigal Son" (Luke xv., beginning with the eleventh verse), which, although it was written down many centuries ago, fulfils the modern critical concept of the short-story, in that it produces a single narrative effect with the greatest economy [pg 197] of means that is consistent with the utmost emphasis.
— from Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews by Clayton Meeker Hamilton