"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

armikat n crew cut.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

faciō ut , or with a negative, commonly committō ut , is used in circumlocutions for emphasis: as, faciundum mihī̆ putāvī, ut tuīs litterīs brevī respondērem , Fam.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Each year the secretions of the mollusc would add new concentric circles.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

A dance where the dancers of the different sexes stand opposite each other, instead of side by side, as in the minuet, rigadoon, louvre, &c. and now corruptly called a country dance.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

During my stay here I had often an opportunity of being near Captain Balfour, who was pleased to notice me, and liked me so much that he often asked my master to let him have me, but he would not part with me; and no consideration could have induced me to leave him.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

At night comes Captain Cocke to see me, and he and I an hour in the garden together.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

One man has got a purse, but another has got the money, and he who has neither has nothing; and nothing is even less than little; while, on the other hand, much is a great deal more than nothing, and nothing can come of nothing.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions. 33.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

"Oh blast the barn!" muttered Bill Sykes, a narrow chested Cockney with a good-humoured face that belied his nickname.
— from The Red Horizon by Patrick MacGill

She laughed a little, drawing away, not coming closer.
— from The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

And yet, day after day, a new crowd come on, who begin forthwith to seek they know not what, and they seek and seek till at last they find Hein.
— from Little Johannes by Frederik van Eeden

It was far too costly, as usual in works of a novel character conducted without practical knowledge.
— from Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles by Henry F. (Henry Flagg) French

[357] For a long time but few settlers had established themselves in that part of North America now called Carolina; [358] of these, some were men who had fled from the persecutions of New England, and formed a little colony round Cape Fear
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1 by George Warburton

"Old Room, to me your homely walls Fold round me like the arms of love, And over all my being falls A blessing pure as from above— Even as a nestling child caressed And lulled upon a loving breast, With folded eyes, too glad to weep And yet too sad for dreams or sleep.
— from Riley Songs of Home by James Whitcomb Riley

“Stuff and nonsense!” cried Couture.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Though having a very close resemblance to the eggs of M. crinita , there are noticeable certain constant variations.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

The meeting then appointed a Nominating Committee consisting of C. M. Beach, W. G. Green, H. L. Randall, S. S. Green, G. M. Breinig, and Rev. Marmaduke Hare, to present to the meeting the names of those who should constitute the General Committee of Arrangements.
— from Two Centuries of New Milford Connecticut An Account of the Bi-Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Town Held June 15, 16, 17, and 18, 1907, With a Number of Historical Articles and Reminiscences by Various