" "I wish, Alicia, you were not so fond of ridiculing Bob," Sir Michael said, gravely.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

You are putting off the present difficulty, and the odious fear of want in the future; or rather you are sowing the seeds of policy, of the feeling of being two.—You destroy sympathy.
— from On Love by Stendhal

The day after their arrival there was a heavy fall of rain, and in the night the water came through in the corridor and in the nursery, so that the beds had to be carried into the drawing-room.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The father of Regin and Fafner.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

The different lines of proof which I have taken up establish conclusively the proposition that all the motor impulses which leave the cortex pass out , in healthy animals, from the convolutions about the fissure of Rolando .
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The feast of reason and the flow of soul: And he, whose lightning pierced the Iberian lines, Now forms my quincunx, and now ranks my vines Or tames the genius of the stubborn plain, Almost as quickly as he conquered Spain.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

The numerous remains of that people, though they were still excluded from the precincts of Jerusalem, were permitted to form and to maintain considerable establishments both in Italy and in the provinces, to acquire the freedom of Rome, to enjoy municipal honors, and to obtain at the same time an exemption from the burdensome and expensive offices of society.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The whiteness and beauty of these feet struck them with surprise, for they did not seem to have been made to crush clods or to follow the plough and the oxen as their owner's dress suggested; and so, finding they had not been noticed, the curate, who was in front, made a sign to the other two to conceal themselves behind some fragments of rock that lay there; which they did, observing closely what the youth was about.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

May 1999 (next to be held NA May 2004) election results: percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - PRD 34, PA 18, PDC 5, PS 4, MOLIRENA 3, PLN 3, Democratic Change 2, PRC 1, MORENA 1 note: legislators from outlying rural districts are chosen on a plurality basis while districts located in more populous towns and cities elect multiple legislators by means of a proportion-based formula Papua New Guinea unicameral National Parliament - sometimes referred to as the House of Assembly (109 seats, 89 elected from open electorates and 20 from provincial electorates; members elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) elections: last held 15-29 June 2002 and April and May 2003; completed in May 2003 (voting in the Southern Highlands was not completed during the June 2002 election period); next to be held not later than June 2007 election results: percent of vote by party - PPP 15%, Pangu Pati 14%, NA 14%, PDM 8%, PNC 6%, PAP 5%, UP 3%, NP 1%, PUP 1%, independents 33%; seats by party - PPP 16, Pangu Pati 15, NA 15, PDM 9, PNC 7, PAP 5, UP 3, NP 1, PUP 1, independents 37; note - association with political parties is very fluid (2002) Paraguay bicameral Congress or Congreso consists of the Chamber of Senators or Camara de Senadores (45 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) and the Chamber of Deputies or Camara de Diputados (80 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) elections: Chamber of Senators - last held 27 April 2003 (next to be held NA May 2008); Chamber of Deputies - last held 27 April 2003 (next to be held NA May 2008)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Strange longings he had never known till now, Awoke within him, flowers of rooted hope.
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 by George MacDonald

By and by, however, Fashion, decaying like these other forms of rule, almost wholly ceases to be an imitation of the best, and becomes an imitation of quite other than the best.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

It's all Susan and I can do to pay for our room, and get a bit of bread and a cup of tea.
— from Stephen Archer, and Other Tales by George MacDonald

Abgarus, Letter of Christ to, 7 Ague, Charms against, 149 Apes, Leading, 43 Apple-peel as a love-test, 30 Apple-tree blooming twice, a sign of Death, 52 Apron, Superstitions about, 84 Articles of Dress, 81 "Arval" and "Arval Bread," 64 Aryan Myths and Legends, 16 Astrology, Divination by, 144 Auguries gathered from Shoes, 89 Baby and Kitten, 8 Banns, Superstitions about putting up, 43 Baptism, how rendered propitious in Scotland, 19 —— Effect of, on Children, 18 Barring out, 27 —— Addison's conduct at, 27 Beards, Dyeing of, 76 Bed, Folk-lore about, 118 —— Position of, 119 Bellows, Superstition about, 120 , 160 Bent piece of money, 133 Best man's prize, 46 Bible and Key, 135 Birds, Presages of Death by, 51 Birth and Infancy, Folk-lore relating to, 2 "Bishopping," good for rheumatism, 21 Bishop's Left Hand, Superstition respecting, 20 Biting the Glove, 95 "Black Ox" in Scotland, 51 Blade-bone, Divination by, 139 Bleeding of the Nose, 68 , 150 —— as a sign of love, 68 Blue Vein across Nose, 69 Brake or Fern, Divination by, 31 Bread, Superstitions about, 107 Breaking Egg-shells, 108 Bride and Looking-glass, 113 —— Sun shining on, 40 Brides of Elizabethan Dramas, 39 Bride's Stockings, 86 Broom left in Room after Sweeping, 126 Burial of Dead among Greeks, 63 "Burial without the Sanctuary," 62 Burn or Scald, 151 Burning Hair, Omens from, 74 —— tail of Coat, &c., 84 Butter-dock, Scattering Seeds of, 35 Cæna feralis of Romans, 64 Candle in Ghost's Hand, 54 Candles, Omens from, 130 Carbuncle in Ring, 96 Cards, Divination by, 144 Carrying the Dead with the Sun, 61 Casting Lot, Divination by, 146 Cat, Sneezing of, 123 Cats and Toads, Form of, assumed by Witches, 177 —— Sucking Child's Breath, 13 Caul, Superstition about, 3 , 4 —— Hood's Ballad about, 3 —— Price paid for, 4 Chairs, Superstitions about, 111 , 118 Changelings, Superstitions about, 4 —— Luther's remarks on, 4 Character of Book, 180 Charm-remedies, 148 Charmer, her power, 172 Charms against changing Children, 5 —— to detect Changelings, 5 —— against stumbling, 124 Cheeks, Itching of, 77 Cheese given by Bride, 42 Child Dying unchristened, 18 Childhood's Folk-lore, 16 "Chime Hours," Birth at, 2 Chiromancy, or Palmistry, 140 Christmas Eve, Divinations on, 34 Christ's College, Cambridge, Fellowships at, 103 Churchyard Lore, 61 Cinderella, a Nature-myth, 17 "Clock-falling," 117 —— striking thirteen, 54 —— losing stroke, 55 Clothes of the Dead, 83 Cock-crowing at Night, 52 "Connoisseur," Love-tests in, 29 Corn in Marriage Ceremony, 44 "Corpse-candles" in Wales, 54
— from Domestic folk-lore by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

Feast of Remembrance or Meeting of Faithfulness, held every nineteen days.
— from Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Thus, while the forces of retrogression were at work the Indian was daily becoming more of a menace to the well-disposed border settlers who viewed his changing attitude in helpless terror.
— from The Spirit Lake Massacre by Thomas Teakle

She’s just passed around from one family of relations to another during vacations.
— from Ruth Fielding In the Saddle; Or, College Girls in the Land of Gold by Alice B. Emerson