Auch der Löwe muss sich vor der Mücke wehren —Even the lion has to defend itself against flies.
— 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.

How low in the scale of nature this law of battle descends, I know not; male alligators have been described as fighting, bellowing, and whirling round, like Indians in a war-dance, for the possession of the females; male salmons have been seen fighting all day long; male stag-beetles often bear wounds from the huge mandibles of other males.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

And at last it said to St. Nicholas, 'Oh, dear St. Nick, I want to find a little girl who hasn't any doll—'" "Like me?" said Pussy.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

But on my last day in town, coming out of the Stores, I met her with her son and daughter; like myself, she had been making her final purchases before leaving London, and we were both hot and tired.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

"Ain't he a dear little man?" said Captain Jim gloatingly.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Vive el quetzal en lo alto de los montes; se alimenta principalmente de ciertos insectos, que si le faltan, muere, [1] razón por la que no puede existir cautivo; y no pasa de [2] ser leyenda poética que si pierde el plumaje de la cola, perece de tristeza.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

On se retrouve alors dans la même situation que la radio ou la télé, c'est-à-dire que s'il n'y a pas de clip audio ou d'images, une nouvelle même importante devient du coup moins attrayante sur le plan du médium.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

I found that the spot where the Arbol de las Manitas stands is 8825 feet above the level of the sea.
— from The Romance of Natural History, Second Series by Philip Henry Gosse

At dawn, like monster mastiffs baying, Federal cannon, with a din affraying, Roused the old Stonewall brigade, That, eagerly and undismayed, Charged amain, to be repelled After four hours' bitter fighting, Forth and back, with bayonets biting; Where in after years, the wood— Flayed and bullet-riddled—stood A presence ghostly, grim and stark, With trees all withered, wasted, gray, The place of combat night and day Like marshaled skeletons to mark.
— from Dreams and Days: Poems by George Parsons Lathrop

Among the many literary men and women of my acquaintance there are some (for it is not possible to enumerate all) of whom I should like to make some mention; and, place aux dâmes , let me speak of the ladies first.
— from My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper

She became an actress and travelled from country town to country town, with a troop of mediocre actors, dragging Lady Mowbray's son along with her, the child whose position and name you had usurped.
— from Garrick's Pupil by Augustin Filon

What does a double negative do to my ratio?" Giving him a droll look, Mandi said, "Very funny.
— from An Encounter in Atlanta by Ed Howdershelt

“Speak of dual consciousness, you psycho-physiologists!”—I cried, in one of the moments when agony, mental and as it seemed to me physical also, had arrived at a degree of intensity which would have killed a dozen living men; “speak of your psychological and physiological experiments, you schoolmen, puffed up with pride and book-learning!
— from Nightmare Tales by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

[980] "Encore que je souy contraynte d'avoyr le roy de Navarre auprès de moy, d'aultent que lé louys de set royaume le portet ynsin, quant le roy ayst en bas ayage, que les prinse du sanc souyt auprès de la mère; si ne fault-y qu'il entre en neule doulte, car y m'é si aubéysant et n'a neul comendement que seluy que je luy permès."
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird