What stands most closely related to them, though with a large admixture of Greek vitality and nerve-force, is epicureanism, the theory of salvation of paganism.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The enemy waited their approach, confident in the excellence of his position; but as they drew closer the Hellene light troops, with a loud alala!
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

When a leader of the Pack has missed his kill, he is called the Dead Wolf as long as he lives, which is not long.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

And if any traveller hath a curiosity to see the whole work at large, as it came from the hands of the author, I will be ready to gratify him.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

There was the everlasting Mr. Begbie, too eager for the controversy to wait any longer at the gate.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Asnius Pollio, who, as being a worthy man, was the less to be excused, committed a like, error, when, having written a libel against Plancus, he forbore to publish it till he was dead; which is to bite one’s thumb at a blind man, to rail at one who is deaf, to wound a man who has no feeling, rather than to run the hazard of his resentment.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The rickety little waggon was already laden, and the girl led out the horse, Prince, only a degree less rickety than the vehicle.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

It is a whole language within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft which has produced a vegetation, a parasite which has its roots in the old Gallic trunk, and whose sinister foliage crawls all over one side of the language.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

It is celebrated by racing with long narrow boats shaped to represent dragons and propelled by scores of rowers, pasting of charms on the doors of dwellings, and eating a special kind of rice-cake, with a liquor as a beverage.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

These woods and lanes a month later would offer but a dusty and doubtful seclusion: now, however, in their May greenness and morning repose, they looked very pleasant.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

An old woman also living at Maghera, related how her great-grandmother had received a visit from a small old woman, who forbade the building of a certain turf-stack, saying that evil would befall anyone who injured the chimneys of her house.
— from Ulster Folklore by Andrews, Elizabeth, F.R.A.I.

These Çramanas he had recommended to withdraw themselves from the world, and live after his own example in solitary meditation on the four truths: pain, the origin of pain, the annihilation of pain, and the way which leads to this.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Max Duncker

Twenty years of desert wandering leave them like mummies, he reflected; and the child, whom the mother enjoined to come forward and to speak winningly to the rich man, though in her early teens was as lean and brown and ugly as her mother.
— from The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story by George Moore

Like any other girl, Nelly Lebrun hated a puzzle above all things in the world, at least a puzzle which affected her new friends.
— from Gunman's Reckoning by Max Brand

She kissed my lips; and with the kissing I woke, and looked about me.
— from Tinman by Tom Gallon

On the edge of evening with all the west ablaze they came out once more on Isla Water and looked across the glimmering flood at the old house in the hollow, every distant window-pane a-glitter.
— from In Secret by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

After many weary days of travelling this part of the journey was at last accomplished, and they were about to separate at the foot of a considerable hill which lay on the border line between China and the country of the barbarians beyond, when a loud and striking voice was heard exclaiming, "The priest has come!
— from Chinese Folk-Lore Tales by J. (John) Macgowan

The first one appeared to be the general living- and sleeping-room, absolutely bare save for strips of felt ranged down the far end and a pile of native quilts in a corner; the second room, which could only be reached through the first, was dedicated to the animals; and the third, which was almost pitch dark, was a larder and store-house.
— from By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb Wilkins

That the pleasurable state may be augmented one wills a listening attitude.
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair