Never, he swore, had he saw anything more beautiful or sad.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

And his daughter was also shocked, but hoped the king would soon give up such thoughts; so she said to him, ‘Before I marry anyone I must have three dresses: one must be of gold, like the sun; another must be of shining silver, like the moon; and a third must be dazzling as the stars: besides this, I want a mantle of a thousand different kinds of fur put together, to which every beast in the kingdom must give a part of his skin.’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

But though not all—no, not even many—can be learned in the law or eloquent as pleaders, still anybody may be of service to many by canvassing in their support for appointments, by witnessing to their character before juries and magistrates, by looking out for the interests of one and another, and by soliciting for them the aid of jurisconsults or of advocates.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Some parts the look of mansions wear, And others are as gardens fair, While others seem a massive block Of solid undivided rock.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

“ Rahu , a daitya or demon who is supposed to seize the sun and moon, and thus cause eclipses (according to the common myth he was a son of Vipra-ʿcitti and Sinhikā, and had four arms, his lower part ending in a tail), he was the instigator of all mischief among the daityas, and when the gods had produced the amrita or nectar from the churned ocean, he disguised himself like one of them and drank a portion of it, but the sun and moon having detected his fraud and informed Vishnu, the latter severed his head and two of his arms from the rest of his body; the portion of nectar he had swallowed having secured his immortality, the head and tail were transferred to the stellar sphere, the head wreaking its vengeance on the sun and moon by occasionally swallowing them for a time, while the tail, under the name of Ketu , gave birth to a numerous progeny of comets and fiery meteors.”—Monier
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

"To be master in Albania," says M. Gabriel Hanotaux, "one would have to dislodge the inhabitants from their eyries"—(another French statesman has used a less exalted simile: "Albania," M. Briand once said, "is an international lavatory")—and it goes without saying that any corporation which undertakes to civilize the [295] Shqyptart would need to bring in a military force, on similar lines to the Swedish gendarmerie in Persia.
— from The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Henry Baerlein

To Earl Stanhope A man beloved of Science and of Freedom, these Poems are respectfully inscribed by The Author.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A poor Irish colleen with nothing silk about me but one small neckerchief.” Following the masquerade by only a few days came the excitement of the first game between the new team and the sophomores.
— from Marjorie Dean, College Freshman by Josephine Chase

I showed him more kindness than I ever showed a man before or since, and then he called me a ‘hoary reprobate.’
— from Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7 by Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir

The supposition advanced may hit the truth squarely; and may be of such peculiar nature as to lead easily to clear and conclusive proof. (4) As affording a probable explanation of a problem which will not lend itself to an entirely satisfactory solution.
— from A Class Room Logic Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching by George Hastings McNair

Sheikh Abdál Mússa Súltán, and Sheikh Abdál Murád, both of Sultán Orkhán’s time.
— from Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II by Evliya Çelebi

" Here she met Senator and Mrs. Payne of Ohio, Senator and Mrs. Cockrell of Missouri, Senator and Mrs. Butler of South Carolina, Speaker and Mrs. Reed of Maine, Justice and Mrs. Field and other notables.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

I shall never forget the struggle page 94 p. 94 that I had with my ego when, ignoring “the idea of duty in its purest abstraction,” it refused to abandon the bliss of nirvana for the troubles of this mundane life; or the anxiety both of my manas , or human soul, and my buddhi , or spiritual soul, lest, after by our combined efforts we had overcome our ego, we should not be able to do our duty by our rupa , or natural body, and get back into it.
— from Fashionable Philosophy, and Other Sketches by Laurence Oliphant

Gerald hesitated, and wondered whether he would say anything more, but on second thoughts he decided to hold his peace, and abruptly left the room.
— from The Sealed Message by Fergus Hume