The safety and honor of the empire was principally intrusted to the legions, but the policy of Rome condescended to adopt every useful instrument of war.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The latter animal is made, in AEsop's fable of the 'Ox and the Frog,' to blow itself up from vanity and envy until it burst.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

It was necessary for Joe to hold on heavily to the table with his left elbow, and to get his right leg well out behind him, before he could begin; and when he did begin he made every downstroke so slowly that it might have been six feet long, while at every upstroke I could hear his pen spluttering extensively.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

I had a burst appendix the day afterward and ended up in the infirmary.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

And it is interesting to read the interviews with Count Ishii which all end up in the same way, that the fear of bomb-throwers in the United States is becoming a very serious alarm among all.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

Arbeit erworben unearned income nicht durchführbar not feasible nicht eingelöster Wechsel dishonoured note nicht eingeschränktes Dokument unqualified document nicht eingetragen unrecorded nicht einlösbar irredeemable nicht eintrifft shall have failed to arrive nicht einwandfreie Ware; fehlerhafte Ware faulty goods nicht entnommener Gewinn undrawn profit nicht erhältlich unavailable nicht erledigt unsettled nicht erscheinen; fernbleiben to fail to appear nicht erwünschter Helfer unwanted helper nicht erzwingbar unenforceable nicht etabliert non-established nicht fachmännisch unprofessional nicht feststellbar unascertainable nicht flüssig illiquid nicht formgerecht bad in form nicht gedecktes Kapital impaired capital nicht geltend gemacht unclaimed nicht gewinnbringend unprofitable nicht giriert unendorsed nicht greifbare
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

And the Rhinoceros upset the oil-stove with his nose, and the cake rolled on the sand, and he spiked that cake on the horn of his nose, and he ate it, and he went away, waving his tail, to the desolate and Exclusively Uninhabited Interior which abuts on the islands of Mazanderan, Socotra, and Promontories of the Larger Equinox.
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Originally an expression used in riding or driving, now general.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

After a party has grown up and become well organized in its purpose of representing these or those political principles and of defending and propagating them, it may at length cease to be only the means to an end, and become an end unto itself.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

Very often, indeed, when we are employing a word in our mental operations, we are so far from waiting until the complex idea which corresponds to the meaning of the word is consciously brought before us in all its parts, that we run on to new trains of ideas by the other associations which the mere word excites, without having realized in our imagination any part whatever of the meaning; thus using the word, and even using it well and accurately, and carrying on important processes of reasoning by means of it, in an almost mechanical manner; so much so, that some metaphysicians, generalizing from an extreme case, have fancied that all reasoning is but the mechanical use of a set of terms according to a certain form.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

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— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

"It's like the time I was ranchin' with an Englishman up in Montana.
— from The Spoilers by Rex Beach

Then, in that desperate moment, when hope might have been supposed to be over, an expedient unparalleled in the records of war was resorted to.
— from The Battles of the British Army Being a Popular Account of All the Principal Engagements During the Last Hundred Years by Robert Melvin Blackwood

You next suspend a plate of metal from the same part of the arch to which the bells are connected; then, at the distance of a few inches from the arch, and exactly under it, place a metal stand of the same size .
— from Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including Acoustics, Electricity, Magnetism, Arithmetic, Hydraulics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Hydrostatics, Optics; Wonders of the Air-Pump; All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c., &c. to Which is Added, a Complete System of Pyrotechny; Or, the Art of Making Fire-works. by Unknown

To enter will be next to impossible, and when once entered, what will be before you but the madness of civil discord, and finally, death by the hands of an enemy utterly infuriated against our nation?”
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly

On the road he saw four different species which are entirely unknown in the United States, and six others which are found only in Louisiana and Florida, of most of which he procured specimens.
— from Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens

She sees this same fact merging into the operations of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, physics, and engineering, until it finally functions in some enterprise that redounds to the well-being of humanity.
— from The Vitalized School by Francis B. (Francis Bail) Pearson