Frau Duncker replied: ‘The Crown Princess has her own views and her own will; her views and resolutions are very quickly formed—but when formed, there is nothing to be done against them.’
— from The Empress Frederick: a memoir by Anonymous

e que prudentes De promessas encheis aos pretendentes, E de esperanças vans aos Réos afflictos: Vós que lêdes processos infinitos; Que soffreis cavilózos requerentes; Cartas, memoriaes impertinentes; E por fim castigaes poucos delictos; Vós ficai-vos em paz; porque occupados Naõ deveis ser com clausulas escriptas De quem sem pleitos vive, e sem cuidados.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

In any case, it would seem certain, judging from their testimony, that it is possible, by applying a certain stimulus, to gain knowledge of another order of consciousness of a rare and vivifying quality.
— from Mysticism in English Literature by Caroline F. E. (Caroline Frances Eleanor) Spurgeon

Instances can be recorded in which shrewd business-men have actually taken up the floors of their workshops and recovered a vast quantity of metal which was supposed to be lost for ever; and instances are well remembered in which two jewellers, upon removing into more extensive premises, availed themselves of the opportunity, not only of removing the boards which formed the flooring of the premises they were about to leave, but also those of the tenants they were about to succeed.
— from The Silversmith's Handbook Containing full instructions for the alloying and working of silver by George E. (George Edward) Gee

Fire insurance, New York, and now baseball, things in none of which had she ever felt more than a flicker of interest, suddenly, seen through his eyes, assumed a reality, a vital quality she had never dreamed they could possess.
— from White Ashes by Alden Charles Noble

She had been reared by a grandmother who was one of the last of the Southern dames of the ancien régime , and would have died before she would have condescended to a rough and vulgar quarrel.
— from Southern Hearts by Florence Hull Winterburn

But the opening of the railroad to Nashua, and soon after to Manchester, entirely changed the centers of trade and business, and left Francestown to become a respectable and very quiet village.
— from Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men by Various

The mass of the earth, on the other hand, is not a relative and variable quantity, but a constant and independent one, which would not be affected either by the sudden annihilation of a
— from Makers of Electricity by Brother Potamian

was one of shrikes, and relates a very quaint story of one of these little birds owned by the king, which would fly up to a heron on the wing and whisper in his ear!
— from The Art and Practice of Hawking by E. B. (Edward Blair) Michell

Men had been long upon the earth, and their distribution which involved means and ways more primitive and considerably slower than the railroad or the steamship, had been accomplished through a process of migration which not only brought them under influences in Nature contrasted and various, and developed self-initiative and constructive faculties, but by every possible avenue of appeal stirred their fear and reverence, and very quickly inaugurated morality and intensity of religious practices.
— from A Woman of the Ice Age by L. P. (Louis Pope) Gratacap