“‘Put the papers on the sundial,’ I read, peeping over his shoulder.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

—The connotation of the word, Stephen said, is rather vague.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Hence it is Shepherds their whole flock steep in running streams, While, plunged beneath the flood, with drenched fell, The ram, launched free, goes drifting down the tide.
— from The Georgics by Virgil

Alle′giance (from mid-Eng. ligeaunce , formed from liege ), according to Blackstone, is "the tie or ligamen which binds the subject to the sovereign in return for that protection which the sovereign affords the subject", or, generally, the obedience which every subject or citizen owes to the Government of his country.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Thither may the wrecks of rehabilitated Loyalty gather; if it will become Constitutional; for Constitutionalism thinks no evil; Sansculottism itself rejoices in the King's countenance.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I believe the above solution contains the maximum number of pieces, but possibly some ingenious reader may succeed in getting in another knight.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

When one comes to think of it, surely people 'in society' (and, though one may find fault with them now and then, still, after all they are a very different matter from that gang of blackmailers) shew a profound sagacity in refusing to know them, or even to dirty the tips of their fingers with them.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

‘If I were suspicious,’ I replied, ‘I should have discovered your infamy long before.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Lahírig túbig ang pánit sa inasal, Rub water over the roast pig’s skin.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Then, standing on the edge of the pit, he began most unmercifully to apply them, with all the strength and endurance of an arm that had scarcely its rival in the community.
— from Arthur Brown, The Young Captain The Pleasant Cove Series by Elijah Kellogg

And Kenneth, waiting for no second invitation, rode on and left him.
— from The Tavern Knight by Rafael Sabatini

Though two years after me in college standing, I remember the boyish reputation which he brought with him, especially that of a wonderful linguist, and the impression which his striking personal beauty produced upon us as he took his seat in the college chapel.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

She is reading a volume of my Plutarch's 'Lives'—actually reading it.
— from The Valley of Silent Men: A Story of the Three River Country by James Oliver Curwood

I have fifteen years' experience to prove its efficacy, and have no fears on this score in recommending it.
— from Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by M. (Moses) Quinby

Australia Timor-Leste and Australia agreed in 2005 to defer the disputed portion of the boundary for fifty years and to split hydrocarbon revenues evenly outside the Joint Petroleum Development Area covered by the 2002 Timor Sea Treaty; dispute with Timor-Leste hampers creation of a revised maritime boundary with Indonesia in the Timor Sea; regional states continue to express concern over Australia's 2004 declaration of a 1,000-nautical mile-wide maritime identification zone; Australia asserts land and maritime claims to Antarctica; in 2004 Australia submitted its claims to Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) to extend its continental margins covering over 3.37 million square kilometers, expanding its seabed roughly thirty percent more than its claimed exclusive economic zone; since 2003, Australia has led the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI) to maintain civil and political order and reinforce regional security Austria while threats of international legal action never materialized in 2007, 915,220 Austrians, with the support of the newly elected Freedom Party, signed a petition in January 2008, demanding that Austria block the Czech Republic's accession to the EU unless Prague closes its nuclear power plant in Temelin, bordering Austria Azerbaijan Armenia supports ethnic Armenian secessionists in Nagorno-Karabakh and since the early 1990s has militarily occupied 16% of Azerbaijan; over 800,000 mostly ethnic Azerbaijanis were driven from the occupied lands and Armenia; about 230,000 ethnic Armenians were driven from their homes in Azerbaijan into Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh; Azerbaijan seeks transit route through Armenia to connect to Naxcivan exclave; Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) continues to mediate dispute; Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Russia have ratified Caspian seabed delimitation treaties based on equidistance, while Iran continues to insist on an even one-fifth allocation and challenges Azerbaijan's hydrocarbon exploration in disputed waters; bilateral talks continue with Turkmenistan on dividing the seabed and contested oilfields in the middle of the Caspian; Azerbaijan and Georgia continue to discuss the alignment of their boundary at certain crossing areas Bahamas, The disagrees with the US on the alignment the northern axis of a potential maritime boundary; continues to monitor and interdict drug dealers and Haitian and Cuban refugees in Bahamian waters Bahrain none Bangladesh discussions with India remain stalled to delimit a small section of river boundary, exchange territory for 51 small Bangladeshi exclaves in India and 111 small Indian exclaves in Bangladesh, allocate divided villages, and stop illegal cross-border trade, migration, violence, and transit of terrorists through the porous border; Bangladesh protests India's fencing and walling off high-traffic sections of the porous boundary; a joint Bangladesh-India boundary commission resurveyed and reconstructed 92 missing pillars in 2007; dispute with India over New Moore/South Talpatty/Purbasha Island in the Bay of Bengal deters maritime boundary delimitation; after 21 years, Bangladesh resumes talks with Burma on delimiting a maritime boundary Barbados Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago abide by the April 2006 Permanent Court of Arbitration decision delimiting a maritime boundary and limiting catches of flying fish in Trinidad and Tobago's exclusive economic zone; joins other Caribbean states to counter
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

( Sits in rocking-chair and rocks violently. )
— from The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems by Various

Anger in a letter carries with it the effect of solidified fury; the words spoken in reproof melt with the breath of the speaker once the cause is forgiven.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

In the last named poem, Sappho is represented as writing to Gorgo, and expresses herself in these moving words: If the high gods in that triumphant time Have calendared no day for thee to come Light-hearted to this doorway as of old, Unmoved I shall behold their pomps go by— The painted seasons in their pageantry, The silvery progressions of the moon, And all their infinite ardors unsubdued, Pass with the wind replenishing the earth Incredulous forever I must live And, once thy lover, without joy behold, The gradual uncounted years go by, Sharing the bitterness of all things made.
— from Later Poems by Bliss Carman

—I should be much obliged if you, or any of your correspondents, could give me some information respecting Sir David Wilkie's picture of "The Blind Fiddler."
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 128, April 10, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various