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— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Lawyers could argue that since no direct exploration was made there was no valid reason to assume that the Lani did not already inhabit Kardon.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

'Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull every where.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

We see Hindus doing exactly what Jewish rabbis, and after them Christian schoolmen and dogma-makers, did with the old Hebrew poems and prophecies.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Evadne did not answer; her large dark eyes were cast down, at length a tear glimmered on the lashes.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Alles Gescheidte ist schon gedacht worden; man muss nur versuchen, es noch einmal zu denken —Everything wise has already been thought; one can only try and think it once more.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

This Mancia was a celebrated Jacobin (or Dominican) exorcist, who enjoyed the reputation of never having failed to cure a girl possessed of the demon.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

There are no images for God in their temples, so that every one may represent Him to his thoughts according to the way of his religion; nor do they call this one God by any other name but that of Mithras, which is the common name by which they all express the Divine Essence, whatsoever otherwise they think it to be; nor are there any prayers among them but such as every one of them may use without prejudice to his own opinion.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

As I am not a banker or a high official swell, I never felt a pressing need for dressing extra well; And yet there were occasions, in days not long remote, When I assumed the stately garb of topper and frock-coat.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 8, 1917 by Various

His dark hair was tinged with grey, his dark eyes were brilliant with excitement.
— from The Golden Scorpion by Sax Rohmer

At which he dropped everything, wiped his hands on his apron, and beamed from ear to ear until I got by.
— from Working With the Working Woman by Cornelia Stratton Parker

It's this damned east wind.”
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Her short curly brown hair was done up properly; her pink and white complexion was as clear as cream, now that the dust of the road was gone; her dark eyes were glowing with the wonder and interest of nineteen years, and she was, all in all, a most enticing bit of femininity.
— from Beverly of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon

His Highness told her that it would do extremely well.
— from Social England under the Regency, Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Ashton

CHAPTER VII A HORSE-QUARTER IN SCOTLAND The next morning, amid varied feelings, the chief of which was a predominant, anxious, and even solemn impression, that he was now in a great measure abandoned to his own guidance and direction, Edward Waverley departed from the Hall amid the blessings and tears of all the old domestics and the inhabitants of the village, mingled with some sly petitions for sergeantcies and corporalships, and so forth, on the part of those who professed that 'they never thoft to ha' seen Jacob, and Giles, and Jonathan go off for soldiers, save to attend his honour, as in duty bound.'
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott