I know I am not saying it properly, but I'll say it all the same,” Alyosha went on in the same shaking and broken voice.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All such exaggeration of a single and narrow standpoint is [Pg 401] in itself a sign of sickness.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But excepting on such occasions as a Christmas or a birthday dinner, they are never seen in private houses to-day.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

[ snǣd ] snās (ǣ) f. spit, skewer , WW 237 17 and n . snāð I. pret.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

[148] every tile half a yard square, and about two inches thick; they found coal lying there also (for that lying whole will never consume); then digging one fathom into the main, they found water sufficient, made their prall, and set up the pump; which pump, with oft repairing and great charges to the parish, continued not four-and-twenty years, but being rotted, was taken up and a new set in place in the year 1600.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

There is then a nameless satisfaction in passing on; which is the virtual ideal of pain and mere willing.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Uspag kaáyu ug pánit ang nagpuyù sa isla, People living on islands have very dry skin.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I saw two sitting leaned against each other, As leans in heating platter against platter, From head to foot bespotted o'er with scabs; And never saw I plied a currycomb By stable-boy for whom his master waits, Or him who keeps awake unwillingly, As every one was plying fast the bite Of nails upon himself, for the great rage Of itching which no other succour had.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

As carmen, boys and apprentices, when a new song is published with us, go singing that new tune still in the streets, they continually acted that tragical part of Perseus, and in every man's mouth was O Cupid, in every street, O Cupid, in every house almost, O Cupid, Prince of Gods and men, pronouncing still like stage-players,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

All the afternoon at my office alone doing business, and then in the evening after a walk with my wife in the garden, she and I to my uncle Wight’s to supper, where Mr. Norbury, but my uncle out of tune, and after supper he seemed displeased mightily at my aunt’s desiring [to] put off a copper kettle, which it seems with great study he had provided to boil meat in, and now she is put in the head that it is not wholesome, which vexed him, but we were very merry about it, and by and by home, and after prayers to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

A narrow slit is put in place of the eye-piece of one, the arrangement admitting of the slit being made smaller or larger by means of screws.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

You can't have a friend and not share his problems and you can't live in a community and not share its problems, if you're going to be worth anything to the world."
— from Lydia of the Pines by Honoré Morrow

hedn't rigged up a new still in place of ther one the Govern ment confiscated, an' made white licker all ther time I was down thar sarvin' time.
— from When 'Bear Cat' Went Dry by Charles Neville Buck

But the most important fact of all is, that in the present and following species the quadrifid and bifid processes of bladders containing decayed animals generally include little masses of spontaneously moving protoplasm; whilst such masses are never seen in perfectly clean bladders.
— from Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin

The streets are a little better paved than those of the more southern capitals of the North, but are not of greater width than Coventry Street, or St. Martin's Lane; and, being unlighted by gas, it is difficult at night, should it prove rainy and dark, to keep out of the gutters.
— from A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition by William A. Ross

Excepting during the brief period of mating, they are never seen in pairs.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

At the same time, and in virtue of the same process of internal logic, these personified beings come to be regarded more and more as possessed of a nature superior in power indeed, but in all other respects closely conforming, to that of man.
— from Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by Albert Réville

Show me a young and beautiful wife, almost bride, immuring herself as you do, and never seen in public but clinging to her husband's arm, shrinking from admiration and blushing at a glance, and I will show you another Solomon."
— from Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz

Anyhow, insects would probably carry pollen from flower to flower, for Kurr states the tube formed by pistil, stamen and "nectarblatt" secretes (I presume internally) much nectar.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin