Cobham’s a coward, Polwarth is a slave, And Littelton a dark, designing knave, St. John has ever been a wealthy fool— But let me add, Sir Robert’s mighty dull, Has never made a friend in private life, And was, besides, a tyrant to his wife.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

A motion of the hand, or a glance of the eye, will throw a weak and credulous patient into a fit; and a pill made of bread, if taken with sufficient faith, will operate a cure better than all the drugs in the pharmacopœia.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

It is a pious consolation to me that, through my interference, a sufficient space was allowed them for repentance of the evil and corrupt practices into which, as a matter of course, every Custom-House officer must be supposed to fall.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

[Pg 303] pipes are flattened by contracting the tops inwards with a metal cone like a candle-extinguisher placed over the top and tapped; and sharpened by having the top splayed by a cone pushed in point downwards.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

Up, still in a constant pain in my back, which much afflicts me with fear of the consequence of it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Est quædam flere voluptas, / Expletur lachrymis egeriturque dolor —There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief is soothed and alleviated by tears.
— 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.

Up and to St. James’s by coach, after a good deal of talk before I went forth with J. Noble, who tells me that he will secure us against Cave, that though he knows, and can prove it, yet nobody else can prove it, to be Tom’s child; that the bond was made by one Hudson, a scrivener, next to the Fountaine taverne, in the Old Bayly; that the children were born, and christened, and entered in the parish-book of St. Sepulchre’s, by the name of Anne and Elizabeth Taylor and he will give us security against Cave if we pay him the money.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

[92] The passage from the Gipsies especially finds a close parallel in the fragment of a song in Marston’s Dutch Courtezan , 1605, Wks.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

The greatest liberty is allowed to slaves, and corporal punishment is never inflicted on any one.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

"If you particularly wish to do so and circumstances permit it, you may perhaps keep a few terms when you are out of your articles," he replied, with hesitation.
— from The Story of Charles Strange: A Novel. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

His replies were brief at first; he felt a curious pressure in his throat and chest, but by degrees this sensation gave way to another, just as disturbing, but not devoid of a certain sweetness....
— from Virgin Soil by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

As Jessica Litman points out, we are increasingly making our decisions about technology and communications policy inside copyright law.
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle

G. W. E. recommends that in immersing a collodion plate it should first be inserted horizontally, and then transversely in the nitrate of silver bath, as a sure means of avoiding spots .
— from Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

"'Think aw can put it in?'
— from Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect by John Hartley

Therefore, though the archdeacon is not paid for his services as archdeacon, he is generally a gentleman who is well to do in the world, and who can take a comfortable place in the county society among which it is his happy lot to live.
— from Clergymen of the Church of England by Anthony Trollope

Jest at this pint of the conversation another swarm of orfice-seekers arrove & cum pilin into the parler.
— from The Complete Works of Artemus Ward (HTML edition) by Artemus Ward

On good terms with all authority, shrewd, pliant, daring in speculation, he was the sole rival of a certain Perez in the awards of divers contracts which the Philippine Government always places in privileged hands.
— from An Eagle Flight: A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Venezuela current situation: Venezuela is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor; Venezuelan women and girls are trafficked within the country for sexual exploitation, lured from the nation's interior to urban and tourist areas; child prostitution in urban areas and child sex tourism in resort destinations appear to be growing; Venezuelan women and girls are trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation to Western Europe, Mexico, and Caribbean destinations tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Venezuela is placed on the Tier 2 Watch List, up from Tier 3, as it showed greater resolve to address trafficking through law enforcement measures and prevention efforts in 2007, although stringent punishment of offenders and victim assistance remain lacking (2008)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency