Then he starts like an eagle dashing upon its prey; he pursues her, clutches her, grasps her at last quite out of breath, and gently placing his left arm about her, he lifts her like a feather, and pressing his sweet burden to his heart, he finishes the race, makes her touch the goal first, and then exclaiming, “Sophy wins!”
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The same guards which protect us from disaster, defect, and enmity, defend us, if we will, from selfishness and fraud.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I intend to become as fierce as a hyena, and to make your life and everything depending upon it a burthen to you.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

The army of the Samnites, as if there was to be no delay in coming to an engagement, draw up in order of battle; then, when no one came to meet them, they advance to the enemy's camp in readiness for action.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Hence, in regard to that most difficult question, what are the natural differences between the two sexes—a subject on which it is impossible in the present state of society to obtain complete and correct knowledge—while almost everybody dogmatizes upon it, almost all neglect and make light of the only means by which any partial insight can be obtained into it.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

The country has no known mineral resources and few exports and is almost entirely dependent upon imported food and fuel.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

In earlier, and it may be happier, times, the duty of the good man was to strive against all evil, disorder, uselessness, incompetence in their more simple forms.
— from Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 by Charles Kingsley

Apollo made small holes with his spade, and each dead 'un in his small coffin was returned to mother earth.
— from A Little Mother to the Others by L. T. Meade

This is one of the most ingenious and effective devices used in the art of trapping; and the principle is so simple and universal in its application to traps in general as to become a matter of great value to all who are at all interested in the subject.
— from Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making by W. Hamilton (William Hamilton) Gibson

He even remembered the day she accepted him, and even dwelt upon it with a sentimental thrill that he probably never felt at the time, and it was a distinct feature of his extraordinary state of mind and its concentration upon this particular subject that he presently began to look upon HIMSELF as the abandoned and deserted conjugal partner, and to nurse a feeling of deep injury at her hands!
— from Openings in the Old Trail by Bret Harte

So essential, indeed, is the attainment of correct methods of manipulation to the progress of chemical science, that many entire trains of research are exclusively dependent upon it for success.
— from The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and the Arts, July-December, 1827 by Various

“You have drawn such an elaborate design upon it that you will have to work night and day to get it finished.”
— from Throckmorton: A Novel by Molly Elliot Seawell