In human beings there is an undeniable ethical tendency, rooted (however [Pg 261] unconsciously) in Metaphysics, and without an explanation of life on these lines, no religion could gain standing-ground; for it is by virtue of their ethical side that they all alike keep their hold on the mind.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

A more detailed knowledge of the North-Western routes allowed us to see the complications and irregularities obtaining there; that the district of Western Boyowa carried on exclusively the inland Kula, and that merely in the person of a few headmen of a few villages; that Kayleula made Kula on a small scale with the communities in the Amphletts, and that all these, as well as the villages on the Eastern shore of Southern Boyowa, were what we described as semi-independent Kula communities.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

I heard a voice and a moan, A voice of the eastern seas:
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

here they move slowly down the river in order to collect and join other bands either of their own nation or the Flatheads, and having become sufficiently strong as they conceive venture on the Eastern side of the Rockey mountains into the plains, where the buffaloe abound.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I derect him to return for it and join me in the Vally on the East Side of this mountain.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell twenty yards down, and the enchantress climbed up by it.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

On the neck lay a pale reflection like moonlight; the same faint lustre touched the train of thin clouds from which rose and bowed this vision of the Evening Star.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

All bless’d secrets, All you unpublish’d virtues of the earth, Spring with my tears!
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

] One of the principal vices of the elective system is that it always introduces a certain degree of instability into the internal and external policy of the State.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

A careful and practical arrangement of the German accidence precedes the exercises, and grammatical commentaries follow them; while each exercise is accompanied by a Germanized English version of the English sentence that is to be rendered into German.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various

"I can't for the life of me take a serious view of this episode," said Jennie.
— from The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop by Hamlin Garland

Two stages of building are visible on the eastern side.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 1 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

These men were the great pioneers of American Independence, by their ceaseless agitation of popular rights, and violent opposition to English schemes of taxation.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders by John Lord

And moreover, owing to the entangled condition into which the company’s and his own personal affairs had come, strict honor required that he inform his visitor of the entire situation and offer, if in the director’s view such action would best serve the company’s ends, to resign.
— from In the Shadow of the Hills by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd

It is evident, therefore, that when we are speculating on the excavating force which a river may have exerted in any particular valley, the most important question is, not the volume of the existing stream, nor the present levels of its channel, nor even the nature of the rocks, but the probability of a succession of floods at some period since the time when the valley may have been first elevated above the sea.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

"If he's around these diggings he'd be the very one to engineer some dirty trick."
— from The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley; Or, Diamond X and the Poison Mystery by Willard F. Baker

LXXXV "Or else my tender bosom opened wide, And heart though pierced with his cruel blade, The bloody weapon in my wounded side Might cure the wound which love before had made; Then should my soul in rest and quiet slide Down to the valleys of the Elysian shade, And my mishap the knight perchance would move, To shed some tears upon his murdered love.
— from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso