Of a lion worthy, Or perhaps of a virtuous howl-monkey— —But it’s naught to you, Ye friendly damsels dearly loved, At whose own feet to me, The first occasion, To a European under palm-trees, A seat is now granted.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I cast away each pensive thought That brings the noblest plans to naught, And each uninjured power will strain Until the purposed end we gain.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

142 142 ley y yo que soy el destinado a acatarla, está una pobre criatura atormentada, un ángel de Dios sujeto a inicuos martirios.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Forma est vitalis fulgor ex ipso bono manans per ideas, semina, rationes, umbras effusus, animos excitans ut per bonum in unum redigantur.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Altozano es una palabra bogotana para designar simplemente el alto de la catedral, que ocupa todo un lado de la plaza Bolívar, colocado sobre cinco o seis gradas, y de un ancho de diez a quince metros.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The reaction against authority in all spheres of life, and the intensity of the struggle, against great odds, for freedom of action and inquiry, led to such an emphasis upon personal observations and ideas as in effect to isolate mind, and set it apart from the world to be known.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Il y fit représenter Absolon mourant accroché aux branches d'un arbre, autour desquelles ses cheveux s'étaient entortillés , et il écrivit au-dessous ces mots : «S'il avait eu une perruque!» L'histoire ne dit pas quelle fut l'issue de cette lutte originale.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

One's delight in an elderberry bush overhanging the confused leafage of a hedgerow bank, as a more gladdening sight than the finest cistus or fuchsia spreading itself on the softest undulating turf, is an entirely unjustifiable preference to a nursery-gardener, or to any of those regulated minds who are free from the weakness of any attachment that does not rest on a demonstrable superiority of qualities.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

20 —La abogacía es una profesión que aborrezco—replicó Pepe Rey.—Conozco abogados muy respetables, entre ellos a mi padre, que es el mejor de los hombres.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

An estate under cultivation, although not demanding the presence of the master constantly, required his frequent appearance on the spot, while the circumstances did not well admit of his extending the estate or of his multiplying his possessions except within narrow limits; whereas an estate under pasture admitted of unlimited extension, and claimed little of the owner's attention.
— from The History of Rome, Book III From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States by Theodor Mommsen

It was an empty, ugly place, with bare floors and whitewashed walls, the latter decorated, like those of the office, with framed scriptural texts.
— from The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson

She went to call on her a little later, but Evangeline was not in; and feeling that her duty was done, Miss Kitts gave no further thought to what she considered an essentially uninteresting person, but devoted herself to a study of the campus house into which she had moved only that year.
— from Smith College Stories Ten Stories by Josephine Dodge Daskam by Josephine Daskam Bacon

It seems to me that no one can examine our pension establishment and its operations without being convinced that through its instrumentality justice can be very nearly done to all who are entitled under present laws to the pension bounty of the Government.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland

He has already eaten up part of poor Silvia's dowry, which he managed to get into his hands.
— from The Englishwoman in Italy Impressions of life in the Roman states and Sardinia, during a ten years' residence by Gretton, G., Mrs.

Engaged entirely in the pursuits of agriculture, they neglected their military exercises, and every useful precaution.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

The startling beginning made by Werder, on the occasion of his midnight visit after the second performance of the Fliegender Hollander in Berlin, was shortly afterwards followed by a similarly unsolicited approach in the form of an effusive letter from an equally unknown personage, Alwino Frommann, who afterwards became my faithful friend.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

He leap-frogged over the stump on which he had been sitting as an easy unembarrassing pause for the next question.
— from Cressy by Bret Harte

In cutting the pieces after such a pattern, care should be taken to leave them about three-quarters of an inch all round wider than the pattern, which will be taken up by the seams; and the same rule must be borne in mind whether you are experimenting upon paper patterns, or upon the [505] materials required for a large balloon.
— from The Boy's Own Book of Indoor Games and Recreations A Popular Encyclopædia for Boys by Gordon Stables

[And again on April 27:—] Owen occupied an entirely untenable position—but I am nevertheless surprised he did not try "abusing plaintiff's attorney."
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Thomas Henry Huxley