By God your worship should read what I have read of Felixmarte of Hircania, how with one single backstroke he cleft five giants asunder through the middle as if they had been made of bean-pods like the little friars the children make; and another time he attacked a very great and powerful army, in which there were more than a million six hundred thousand soldiers, all armed from head to foot, and he routed them all as if they had been flocks of sheep.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

But while these scenes of brutal riot were occurring there was one select but resolute band who shared in none of these excesses.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Another example of the dangerous want of sympathy between tower and towed was witnessed by George and myself once up near Walton.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

The categories of the second class (those of causality and of the necessity of a thing) did not require this homogeneity (of the conditioned and the condition in synthesis), since here what we have to explain is not how the intuition is compounded from a manifold in it, but only how the existence of the conditioned object corresponding to it is added to the existence of the condition (added, namely, in the understanding as connected therewith); and in that case it was allowable to suppose in the supersensible world the unconditioned antecedent to the altogether conditioned in the world of sense (both as regards the causal connection and the contingent existence of things themselves), although this unconditioned remained indeterminate, and to make the synthesis transcendent.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

With social animals, the power of intercommunication between the members of the same community,—and with other species, between the opposite sexes, as well as between the young and the old,—is of the highest importance to them.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

My master seated you on his lap, placing his hand on your forehead by way of spiritually baptizing you.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

I frequently had to look up at the opening between the trees above the path in order to learn my route, and, where there was no cart-path, to feel with my feet the faint track which I had worn, or steer by the known relation of particular trees which I felt with my hands, passing between two pines for instance, not more than eighteen inches apart, in the midst of the woods, invariably, in the darkest night.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

With heads hanging there were oxen standing by the bulwark—one, two, three ... eight beasts.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

At page 1890 of the same volume, Captain J. R. M. Taylor, 14th U. S. Infantry, a gallant soldier and an accomplished scholar, who was in charge in 1901 of the captured insurgent records at Manila, states that he was “informed” that the document was originally “signed by Sandico, then Secretary of the Interior” of the revolutionary government.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The city was originally surrounded by a wall, though the population has long since extended its dwellings and business structures far into what was once the suburbs.
— from Foot-prints of Travel; Or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Maturin Murray Ballou

Therefore, the gift intended in the text must be restrained to some, to a gift that is given by way of speciality by the Father to the Son.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

If one of the Crusaders, eight days before the Purification of the Virgin, or later, consign, in favour of his creditor, some money, some work, or some bill, the creditor cannot be forced on that account to consider him liberated.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 3 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

Quite as if they were sung in his ear, and in her very tones, he heard the words of Saint Bernard, which we have already introduced to our reader:— "Jesu dulcis memoria, Dans vera cordi gaudia: Sed super mel et
— from Agnes of Sorrento by Harriet Beecher Stowe

[18] Would one succeed better by using a thin piece of rubber?
— from Book Repair and Restoration: A Manual of Practical Suggestions for Bibliophiles by Mitchell S. (Mitchell Starrett) Buck

The decorations worn by the men certainly improve their appearance and add to the brilliancy of the scene, but stars own sharp, angular points, which have a way of scratching bare arms, as the writer knows to her cost.
— from Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie

The Mountain Meadow massacre, and the Brassfield murder, were old stories; but just previous to our arrival, a party of Gentiles had been threatened with drowning in the Jordan, and indeed, while we were there, the atrocious murder of Dr. Robinson occurred.
— from Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast by James Fowler Rusling

There is a practical limit to this with ordinary simple burners; as when they are too large they are very sensitive to draught, and liable to unsteadiness and smoking.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 by Various

The Quakers scarcely ever utter the words "original sin," because they never find them in use in the sacred writings.
— from A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends by Thomas Clarkson