↑ 267 Kĕtong as a dry measure is not to be found in the dictionaries.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

I don't need less than a deserving man: I need more.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

It was such a feeling that led Sir Isaac Newton to say after all his wonderful discoveries, "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary whilst the great ocean of truth lay all the time undiscovered before me." 224 peculiar parts individual parts.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

I will lie with half a dozen men, if need be, let alone one.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

A sister, Petrona, for some years had been a dressgoods merchant in nearby Kalamba, on an estate that had recently come under the same ownership as Biñan.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

It will easily be judged, that such expensive and painful means did not permit me to work without interruption; and that a dying man is not ardently industrious in the business by which he gains his daily bread.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"For a dead mortal is no companion for a living one.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

The restoration of life to a dead man is no greater violation of the laws of nature than the first bestowal of life on dead matter.
— from Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson

The Court considered it was error to attempt in the then present state of medical science to recognize as a matter of law any one system of practice, or to declare that the |51| practitioner who follows a particular system is a doctor, and that one who pursues a different method is not ( 103 ).
— from The Law and Medical Men by R. Vashon (Robert Vashon) Rogers

I could have told you were a doll man: I noticed you turning over the pennies in your pants' pocket, same as poppa used when he saw any nice clean little girl like me, and he was the dolliest man in all Chicago.
— from Bud: A Novel by Neil Munro

If the bond between chlorine and different metals is not equally strong, so also the bond uniting n H 2 O
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

The life of a diplomatic man is not unlike the life of a naval officer.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various

"But half a dozen miles is nothing to me.
— from The Bushranger's Secret by Clarke, Henry, Mrs.

"An' there's a dale more in nature than your squidgy little legs have iver taken you to, Orth'ris, me son.
— from Indian Tales by Rudyard Kipling

The food might be a little salt and greasy; but camp-hunger, after a tramp of a dozen miles, is not dulled by such trifles.
— from Camp and Trail: A Story of the Maine Woods by Isabel Hornibrook

“M. Albert de Morcerf is no coward!” said Monte Cristo.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas