When I was a young man at Prague, I had made the acquaintance of a Jewish musician and composer called Dessauer—a man who was not devoid of talent, who in fact achieved a certain reputation, but was chiefly known among his intimates on account of his hypochondria.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

A cockchafer came droning over the hedge and past us.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

And in this way, the men who in a civil capacity direct the affairs of the nation render no less important service than they who conduct its wars: by their statesmanship oftentimes wars are either averted or terminated; sometimes also they are declared.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Still, I cannot deny that this hypothetical object of a resultant desire supplies an intelligible and admissible interpretation of the terms ‘good’ (substantive) and ‘desirable,’ as giving philosophical precision to the vaguer meaning with which they are used in ordinary discourse: and it would seem that a calm comprehensive desire for ‘good’ conceived somewhat in this way, though more vaguely, is normally produced by intellectual comparison and experience in a reflective mind.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Tempus in agrorum cultu consumere dulce 15 est —It is delightful to spend one's time in the tillage of the fields.
— 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.

Each carriage was announced, and ladies rose, And curtsying off, as curtsies country dame, Retired: with most unfashionable bows Their docile esquires also did the same, Delighted with their dinner and their host,
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

He had an unbounded admiration for his own poems, but, through a certain cunning duplicity, he was pleased, too, that Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch always made merry over his poems, and sometimes laughed at them immoderately.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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— from Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China Including a visit to the tea, silk, and cotton countries; with an account of the agriculture and horticulture of the Chinese, new plants, etc. by Robert Fortune

“In any case,” continued David, with a certain air of modest assurance, which became him very much, “it seems a pity that I should waste time here.”
— from Polly: A New-Fashioned Girl by L. T. Meade

As I pursued my way.” Then came some lines impossible to hear, and then each verse ended with: “Com— men cing with ‘my dearest,’ And con— clu ding with her name—” Joshua’s song and the steady tramp, tramp of the horses were sometimes the only sounds disturbing the still night, and Tim, a small erect figure with widely opened eyes, would sit perched on a convenient packing-case at the back of the cart, and listen admiringly.
— from Our Frank and other stories by Amy Walton

"I wouldn't give even the plainest of them a chance!" cried Dinah jealously; "you could marry anyone with the way you have, Jerry dear."
— from The Black Patch by Fergus Hume

There was just enough breeze blowing to make the waves turn over in great green breakers, and come crashing down on the shingle with that strange sound which is like nothing else in the world.
— from Squib and His Friends by Evelyn Everett-Green

It is noted by Mr. Hemingway that some Vellālas “observe a curious custom (derived from Brāhmans) with regard to marriage, which is not unknown among other communities.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

In fact, according to this philosopher, the tendency of history was to repeat itself, much like a compound circulating decimal.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various