There is nothing that more betrays a base, ungenerous Spirit, than the giving of secret Stabs to a Man's Reputation.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

In short, she led a very curious life, and the world in general accounted her a coquette, in that she devoted herself to every sort of pleasure, and danced at balls until she could dance no more, and laughed and jested with young men whom she received before dinner in the half-light of a darkened drawing-room.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

As I afterwards learned, it had cost the nervous, delicate woman a great effort to undertake this journey, and when I urged her to leave her house to come and settle in Switzerland with her family, so that we might all be united, she at last pointed out to me that in proposing what seemed to her such an eccentric undertaking, I was counting upon a strength and energy she no longer possessed.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

As based upon statical sociology and the less complex sciences.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

And I further affirm, that if these things are possible, nothing can be more absurd than the practice which prevails in our own country, of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strength and with one mind, for thus the state, instead of being a whole, is reduced to a half, but has the same imposts to pay and the same toils to undergo; and what can be a greater mistake for any legislator to make than this? CLEINIAS: Very true; yet much of what has been asserted by us, Stranger, is contrary to the custom of states; still, in saying that the discourse should be allowed to proceed, and that when the discussion is completed, we should choose what seems best, you spoke very properly, and I now feel compunction for what I have said.
— from Laws by Plato

"Oh, there was a little account between us," said Dunsey, carelessly, "and Wildfire made it even.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

"And then we must go to the left again, and then straight for'ard for a bit, up Shoe Lane: and then we shall be at the entry next to the o'erhanging window, where there's the nick in the road for the water to run.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

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— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

2.2 Other sources The scientific names for plants and shells are based upon specimens which were gathered and identified with their Cebuano names by reliable informants.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

When the tallow candle with its dim, dilatory flame had left off flickering and burned up sufficiently to make us both visible, I could make out what he was like.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

With favouring winds and blue unshadowed skies, Led by the faithful beacon of Love’s eyes, Past reef and shoal, my life-boat bounded free And fearless of all changes that might be Under calm waves, where many a sunk rock lies.
— from Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Don't begin on too small a bird until somewhat adept; unpracticed fingers bungle sadly over tiny feathered bodies.
— from Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration by Albert Burton Farnham

The crops fail; the earth becomes parched and burnt up; smiling districts are change into wildernesses; fountains and brooks cease to flow; then the wells have no water; finally even the great rivers are reduced to threads, and contain only the scantiest supply of the life-giving fluid in their channels.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 7: The Sassanian or New Persian Empire The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

The Fridtjof took us through the Antarctic ice pack and brought us safely home
— from Iceland: Horseback tours in saga land by W. S. C. (Waterman Spaulding Chapman) Russell

I find that we have passed the last hours of the night on a plateau stretching far away behind us, sterile, and half swallowed by the forest.
— from 'Neath Verdun, August-October, 1914 by Maurice Genevoix

So when they moved on, he followed them, slipping along behind rocks and bushes, until suddenly they disappeared as if the earth had swallowed them.
— from The Swiss Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

Should be assisted by United States in building railroads, III.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 20 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Designating every faith except his own by such phrases as "theosophic fancies," and "pietistic notions," he assures us that they will all be put "right out of existence" by "our modern physical sciences"; and he borrows from the "Positive Philosophy" (apparently by unconscious sympathy) the following maxim to justify his prediction:— "In any case, when that which on any ground of proof takes full hold of the understanding, (such, for example, are the most certain of the conclusions of Geology,) stands contiguous to that which, in a logical sense, is of inferior quality, and is indeterminate, and fluctuating, and liable to retrogression,—in any such case there is always going on a silent encroachment of the more solid mass upon the ground of that which is less solid.
— from Studies of Christianity; Or, Timely Thoughts for Religious Thinkers by James Martineau

"His eyes are bandaged up still, and will have to be for some little time yet; and the burns, though they are not deep or dangerous, are rather painful.
— from Esther's Charge: A Story for Girls by Evelyn Everett-Green