Thou hast not done so at the other Bolge; Consider, if to count them thou believest, That two-and-twenty miles the valley winds, And now the moon is underneath our feet; Henceforth the time allotted us is brief, And more is to be seen than what thou seest." "If thou hadst," I made answer thereupon, "Attended to the cause for which I looked, Perhaps a longer stay thou wouldst have pardoned.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

This is to buy or borrow a book, and not to make one; ‘tis to show men not that he can make a book, but that, whereof they may be in doubt, he cannot make one.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The Wildcat agreed and stretched out as if dead, while the Rabbit gathered some rotten wood and crumbled it over his eyes and nose to make them look flyblown, so that the Turkeys would think he had been dead some time.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

"If you are not to make her happy, why should you pursue her?"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Three sorts of reality of which any new truth must take account.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

He was not in a position to appreciate the chief leveling agency, namely, the machine method of production as now extended and perfected.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The royal policy had long been to weaken, by every means, legal or illegal, the strength of a part of the population which was justly considered as nourishing the most inveterate antipathy to their victor.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Combined with this in the plot is the tale of Abou Hassan from the "Arabian Nights," the main situations in which are turned to farcical purposes in the Induction to the Shakespearean "Taming of the Shrew."
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

“Doctor,” said the zoologist, “be so good as not to move to and fro like a pendulum.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And now the meekness with which he bore his adversity was equally remarkable with the perfectness of that pity he had evermore displayed for the wretched during the term of his prosperity.
— from Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume 1 (of 2) by Thomas Cooper

There are so many beautiful places, and now that May has brought everything out in bloom, all the roads and [Pg 332] by-ways are like pictures.
— from A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda M. Douglas

The miser was in bed upstairs, laid up with lumbago, and Jeremiah was to be very polite and civil, and not to mind if the miser flew out at him.
— from Miser Farebrother: A Novel (vol. 1 of 3) by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

Sir R. I fancy she did follow it, for she died just as he broke, and now this madcap, Frederic, is sent over to me for protection.
— from McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

"Hear me, mates and neighbours; to my own girl, Grace, under God, I owe my poor soul's welfare.
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper

“I know nothing about anybody; nobody tells me anything....” Swithin fixed him with a stare: “What do you do for a pain there?”
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

You are not the man you pretend to be.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

It was hard for even a Narakan to miss at that close range and the Rumi broke and ran just as Sergeant O'Toole and his squad came out of the grass on the other side of the clearing.
— from Narakan Rifles, About Face! by George H. (George Henry) Smith

He knew to a nicety the moment when a chance question will kill confidence—or evoke it.
— from Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver