These and similar suggestions, which Rockel communicated to me with a really delightful enthusiasm, led me to further reflections, and gave birth to new plans upon which, to my mind, a possible organisation of the human race, which would correspond to my highest ideals in art, could alone be based.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

In the meantime here was Anne, reading Dickens, eating chocolates, and leaning over the rail of the House Gallery to listen to his speeches.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

This was a remarkable document, emanating as it did from so many who were by nationality Jews, and who had lived to maturity in the faith and practice of modern Judaism.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Mrs. Dead Angus wore a rather disapproving expression, not caring over-much for this alliance with the house of Whiskers-on-the-moon.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Our summum bonum is commodity, and the goddess we adore Dea moneta , Queen money, to whom we daily offer sacrifice, which steers our hearts, hands, [358] affections, all: that most powerful goddess, by whom we are reared, depressed, elevated,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It cropped out apparently a little southeast of a point where the arc of the orbit of Venus bisects the milky way, and ran due east eighty chains, three links and a swivel, thence south fifteen paces and a half to a blue spot in the sky, thence proceeding west eighty chains, three links of sausage and a half to a fixed star, thence north across the lead to place of beginning.
— from Bill Nye's Red Book New Edition by Bill Nye

Among his wives were Astarte, Rhea, Dioné, Eimarmené, and Hora, of whom the first three were his sisters.
— from History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson

Then with a reckless, desperate effort he tore himself away from its influence and spoke.
— from A Valiant Ignorance; vol. 2 of 3 A Novel in Three Volumes by Mary Angela Dickens

In every such case, the fuel consists chiefly of the fallen leaves, which are rarely dry enough for an extensive combustion, except on uplands; and on these only when covered with a dry soil.
— from American Scenery, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Land, lake, and river illustrations of transatlantic nature by Nathaniel Parker Willis

She was a clumsy little craft with a rather daring expanse of sail, she cut through the water swiftly but was not easy to keep upon her course.
— from The Island of Appledore by Cornelia Meigs

It was a remarkably different event from the first engagement of this sort, that between the Monitor and the Merrimac in Hampton Roads, for the guns now brought into play would have pierced the armor of those vessels as if it had been made of tin.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 12 (of 15), Japanese and Chinese by Charles Morris

Duty on board was of course different than it would have been in a common [8] vessel; and although we had watches and regular discipline, each was familiar with the other, having, as we had, an equal stake in the adventure.
— from Perseverance Island; Or, The Robinson Crusoe of the Nineteenth Century by Douglas Frazar

It is good on shallow land over water, where alfalfa roots decay, etc.
— from One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson

The Buddhists with their wheat and rice do exactly the same thing.
— from The Influence of Buddhism on Primitive Christianity by Arthur Lillie