Even the “universal noise,” which is to be found everywhere, will be differentiated and characteristic according to locality, and that, together with all these other things, is extraordinarily favorable to the association of ideas and the reproduction of the past.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

To whom the winged Warriour thus returnd: Uriel, no wonder if thy perfet sight, Amid the Suns bright circle where thou sitst, See farr and wide: in at this Gate none pass The vigilance here plac't, but such as come 580 Well known from Heav'n; and since Meridian hour No Creature thence: if Spirit of other sort, So minded, have oreleapt these earthie bounds On purpose, hard thou knowst it to exclude Spiritual substance with corporeal barr.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

To whom the winged Warriour thus returnd: Uriel , no wonder if thy perfet sight, Amid the Suns bright circle where thou sitst, See farr and wide: in at this Gate none pass The vigilance here plac’t, but such as come Well known from Heav’n; and since Meridian hour No Creature thence: if Spirit of other sort, So minded, have oreleapt these earthie bounds On purpose, hard thou knowst it to exclude Spiritual substance with corporeal barr.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

But now let us notice what is the strangest thing about the will,—this affair so extremely complex, for which the people have only one name.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

-un(→) n water in the bottom of a boat, bilge water.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I have felt uneasy for the consequences of his being so involved, but I have kept these secrets until now, when I trust them to your honour.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Then let us not weary in the attempt to bring music to the standard of the Muses and of truth.
— from Laws by Plato

Uriel, no wonder if thy perfect sight, Amid the sun's bright circle where thou sitst, See far and wide: In at this gate none pass The vigilance here placed, but
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

If harsh and despotic, the Governments which rose to power at the expense of the Church were usually not wanting in the love of order and uniformity.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

The fascination of indulgence in this illusory life became such that I lingered every summer longer, and finally until November, when, in that high and northerly locality, the snow had fallen and the lake began to freeze, living only under a bark roof, open to the air and to the snow, which fell on my bed during the night.
— from The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by William James Stillman

Without exaggeration, from the beginning of the reign of the late king (may the light of Allah be his testimony!) until now, which is the fourteenth year of the rule of this suppliant, not one of the great Amirs has presented such offerings.
— from The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 2 of 2) by Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir

And one said to another, [Pg 196] “Declare unto us now what is thine opinion, and what knowest thou concerning this thing.
— from Heroines of the Crusades by C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss

Meeker scorned to call for help and Hall dared make no unnecessary noise while in the enemy's line and so they fought silently.
— from Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence Edward Mulford

This doctrine was universal, nor was it the mind of any one hierogrammatist that evolved it; for the Indian Avatâras are a proof to the contrary.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

You excepted Christmas week, by which I understood next week ; I thought Christmas week was that which Christmas Sunday ushered in.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Charles Lamb

This sound announced the arrival [172] of the good spirits, and was shortly followed by a yell of a frightful and unusual nature, which indicated the presence of malignant spirits.
— from The Ghost World by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

The fascination exercised by Margrave was universal; nor was it to be wondered at: for besides the charm of his joyous presence, he seemed so singularly free from even the errors common enough with the young,—so gay and boon a companion, yet a shunner of wine; so dazzling in aspect, so more than beautiful, so courted, so idolized by women, yet no tale of seduction, of profligacy, attached to his name!
— from A Strange Story — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Puzzling on this, I fell asleep, after the proper time to get up; nor was I to be seen at breakfast time; and mother (being quite strange to that) was very uneasy about it.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore