The note was worded as follows: Professor Aronnax Aboard the Nautilus November 16, 1867 Captain Nemo invites Professor Aronnax on a hunting trip that will take place tomorrow morning in his Crespo Island forests.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

The maximum of the invigorating effect of freedom upon the character is only obtained when the person acted on either is, or is looking forward to becoming, a citizen as fully privileged as any other.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Hell is a strait and dark and foulsmelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

for colors as for pictures, and about twice as long as for words and letters.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears Of this his nephew’s purpose, to suppress His further gait herein; in that the levies, The lists, and full proportions are all made Out of his subject: and we here dispatch You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltemand, For bearers of this greeting to old Norway, Giving to you no further personal power To business with the King, more than the scope Of these dilated articles allow.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

What is true of proverbs, is true of all fables, parables, and allegories.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A few paces away, a monstrous, meter–high sea spider was staring at me with beady eyes, poised to spring at me.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

if Pesgi, v. to feed, to fatten; to grow fat Pesgiad, n. a feeding, a fattening Peswch, n. a cough Pesychiad, n. a coughing Pesychlyd, a. troubled with cough Pesychlys, n. the coltsfoot Pesychu, v. to force out; to cough Petrus, a. apt to start; hesitating Petrusad, n. a hesitating Petrusder, n. hesitation, doubt Petrusen, n. a startler; partridge Petrusi, n. startling; hesitation Petruso, v. to startle; to hesitate Petrusol, a startling; hesitating Petryael, Petryal, n. a square: a. square Peth, n. a thing, a something; a quantity, a part Peuad, Peuant, n. a panting; a pausing Peuo, v. to spread out; to pant, to puff; to pause, to hesitate Peuol, a. panting; pausing Peuawr, a. hourly: adv. hourly Peues, n. place of rest; a country Peufer, a. whining; neighing Peuferu, v. to whine; to neigh Peunoeth, a. nocturnal, nightly Peunos, a. nocturnal, nightly Pi, n. state of being in, a pie Pia, n. a pie, a magpie Piant, n. possession, ownership Piau, v. to own, to possess Pib, n. a pipe; a tube; a lax Pibellu, n. a pipe, a duct, a tube Pibelliad, n. a piping; a forming of a pipe Pibellog, a. having a pipe Pibellu, v. to pipe; to form a pipe Pibellwr, n. pipe man, a piper Piben, n. a pipe, a duct, a flue Piblyd, a. apt to squirt, squirting Piblys, n. the flixweed Pibo, v. to pipe; to squirt Pibol, a. piping; squirting Pibonwy, n. icicles, sleet Pibori, n. a piping; a budding: v. to pipe; to tud Piborig, a. piping; budding Pibydd, n. piper, pipe player Pibyddiaeth, n. pipe-playing Picell, n. a dart, a javelin Picellai, n. a dart thrower Picellu, v. to throw a dart Picffon, n. a pike-staff Picfforch, n. a pitchfork Piciad, n. a darting, a going Picio, v. to dart, to fly suddenly Picwd, n. the prickled dog, the hound-fish Picyn, n. a piggin, a noggin Picynaid, n. a piggin-full Pid, n. a tapering point Piff, n. puff, sudden blast Piffio, v. to puff, to whiff Pig, n. a point, a pike, a nip; a bill, a beak; the pip Pigawglys, n. the spinach Pigfain, a. sharp-pointed Pigfan, n. mark of a point Pigfaniad, n. a puncturing Pigfanu, v. to puncture Pigfaniad, n. accumination Pigfeinio, v. to accuminate Pigin, n. picking pain, stitch Pigion, n. pickings; selections Pigl, n. the herb hound’s-tongue Pigo, v. to prick, to pick, to peck Pigoden, n. a pickle: a shrew Pigog, a. pointed, full of points, prickly Pigoga, n. spinach Pigwn, n. a cone; a beacon Pigwrn, n. pinacle, spire Pigyn, n. a stitch, a pleurisy Pigyrnu, v. to spire, to briskle up Pil, n. what hovers; a serjeant; a peal; a creek Pila, n. a finch Pilia, n. a moth, a butterfly Pilaid, a. transient, frail; mean Pilan, n. a sparrow-hawk Pilc, n. what turns about Pilcod, n. minnows Pilcota, v. to catch minnows Pildin, n. a gall by riding Pilden, n. cuticle, rind; fringe Pilenu, v. to form a cuticle Piler, n. a pillar, a column Pileru, v. to build upon pillars, to erect pillars Pilg, n. a vessel of bark; a laver Piliad, n. a paring, a peeling Pilio, v. to peel, to pare, to strip Pilion, n. peelings, strippings Pilionen, n. a thin peel, a film Pilo, n. rod of an apparitor Pilus, a. transient, frail; mean Pilwrn, n. a small dart Pilyn, n. a tegument: a clout; a pillion Pilynu, v. to put on a vesture Pilysyn, n. a robe, a pelisse Pill, n. a pivot; a shaft; a stem, a stock; a tong; a stronghold; a frame; a heater Pillgorn, n. the neck joint Pillgun, n. a plug, a stopple Pillio, v. to shaft, to peg Pillwydd, n. dead standing trees Pillyn, n. a small stem; a peg Pin, n. a pin; a stile, a pen Pinc, n. a sprig; a finch: a smart, brisk; gay; fine Pincen, n. a sprig; a spray Pincio, v. to cover with sprigs Piniwn, n. a gable end Pinwydd, n. pine wood Pioden, n. magpie, pie Piogen, n. a pie.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

His portraits indicated a fine presence and a commanding delivery.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

“She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.”
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

He was always forming projects and abandoning them.
— from From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

Up above it was not Batista, the devoted ex-soldier, who opened the door, but a very young fellow to whom Pierre did not at first pay any attention.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

They come every morning, rings on their fingers and bells on their toes, high heels and flounced parasols and all the lot, and Howell doesn't have it all his own way then, I can tell you.
— from Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions

Then these die off, and a third kind plants itself upon their remains and carries the structure to the top, near the surface of the sea, where many surface-corals, corallines, and various other limy and flinty plants and animals help to erect a dry reef, upon which land vegetation can find a root-hold, and where, after a while, men may dwell.
— from The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll

A flash of light burst from the fort; there was a dull report, and in the air could be heard that peculiar singing and sighing of a flying projectile as a heavy missile passed over the Olympia and the Raleigh .
— from The Boys of '98 by James Otis

By the end of August the pilot mortar had successfully passed its firing tests at Aberdeen, functioning properly at angles of elevation from 22 degrees to 65 degrees and in any direction from the mount.
— from America's Munitions 1917-1918 by Benedict Crowell

But there are fine passages;—and, after all, what is a work—any—or every work—but a desert with fountains, and, perhaps, a grove or two, every day's journey?
— from The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The economy remains sensitive to declining fish stocks as well as to drops in world prices for its main exports: fish and fish products, aluminum, and ferrosilicon.
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency