The whole of [pg 315] nature, the Ideas of all grades, can be represented by means of it, for it proceeds according to the Idea it has to impart, so that its representations are sometimes descriptive, sometimes narrative, and sometimes directly dramatic.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

There we had to wait until sundown, and had ample leisure in which to realise that we were in a smugglers' drinking den, which gradually became filled to suffocation with Polish Jews of most forbidding aspect.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

I may tell you that there is something that is called, in business, quarterly interest, and another thing called payment in installments, and it is always so dreadfully difficult to manage them.
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

How shall we manage to combat that extremely subtle idea, which supposes it possible, through the use of a special artificial form, to effect by a small direct destruction of the enemy's forces a much greater destruction indirectly, or by means of small but extremely well-directed blows to produce such paralysation of the enemy's forces, such a command over the enemy's will, that this mode of proceeding is to be viewed as a great shortening of the road?
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Go and sit down, drink your coffee, and please don’t be afraid of me, my dear, don’t worry yourself.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

These later arrivals, though all of one stock, differed considerably, and spoke different dialects belonging to one language family.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

These are the good Deeds of the Spanish Dons , who often, nay very often to feed their Avarice, and accumulate Gold have sold and still do sell, denied and still do deny Jesus Christ our Redeemer.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

Thus oft before fair temples of the gods, Beside the incense-burning altars slain, Drops down the yearling calf, from out its breast Breathing warm streams of blood; the orphaned mother, Ranging meanwhile green woodland pastures round, Knows well the footprints, pressed by cloven hoofs, With eyes regarding every spot about, For sight somewhere of youngling gone from her; And, stopping short, filleth the leafy lanes With her complaints; and oft she seeks again
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

except Dyeithriad, n. stranger Dyeithro, v. to estrange Dyelw, n. a right Dyen, a. brisk, active Dyenig, a. frank; generous Dyerbyn, v. to receive Dyerchi, v. to demand Dyethol, v. to select Dyfachu, v. to grapple Dyfais, n. device, invention Dyfal, n. simile, riddle: a. incessant; tedious; diligent: industrious Dyfalâd, n. a going on Dyfalâu, v. to be going on Dyfalder, n. diligence Dyfalgerdd, n. descriptive song Dyfaliad, n. making a simile Dyfalu, v. to make a simile, to liken; to guess to describe Dyfarnu, v. to pass sentence Dyfeirio, v. to grow furious Dyfeisiad, n. invention Dyfeisio, v. to devise; to guess Dyfeithrin, v. to be nursing Dyfelu, v. to bicker, to brawl Dyferiad, n. a dropping Dyferiog, a. dropping; leaky Dyferu, v. to drop, to drizzle Dyferwad, n. ebullition Dyferwi, v. to boil Dyferyn, n. a single drop Dyferynu, v. to drizzle Dyfeth, n. failing; nullity Dyfetha, v. to destroy Dyfethiad, n. a destroying Dyfethlu, v. to entangle Dyfethwr, n. a destroyer Dyfian, v. to move slowly Dyfinio, v. to set an edge Dyflaenu, v. to sharpen Dyflanu, v. to illumine Dyflisgo, v. to strip of shells Dyfloen, n. a splinter Dyfnâd, n. a deepening Dyfnad, n. what is inured Dyfnawd, n. profundity Dyfnder, n. deepness Dyfnu, v. to suck; to be used Dyfod, v. to come; to be: to come to pass Dyfodiad, n. a coming Dyfodiant, n. futurity Dyfodol, a. adventitious, coming future Dyfolio, v. to guzzle Dyfrrâd, n. irrigation Dyfrâu, v. to irrigate Dyfrbwysiant, n. hydrostatics Dyfrefu, v. to bleat Dyfrfydrai, n. hydrometer Dyfrgi, n. an otter Dyfrglwyf, n. the dropsy Dyfrhynt, n. water-course Dyfriad, n. watering; irrigation Dyfriar, n. water-hen, coot Dyfrbigo, v. to top, to prune Dyfrïo, v. to dignify Dyfritho, v. to variegate Dyfriwo, v. to crumble Dyfrlan, n. water brink Dyfrle, n. bed of a river Dyfrllyd, a. waterish, watery Dyfrogan, n. hydromancy Dyfrol, a. watery, aqueous Dyfru, v. to water Dyfrwraint, n. a tetter Dyfry, adv.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

And when the Fox began his performance all over again, so dazed did they become, that they lost their hold on the limb, and fell down one by one to the Fox.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

There came a day when all illusion failed, and she died dreadfully, clinging to consciousness.
— from Henry James by Rebecca West

One or two of the inns even refused the children a night's lodging for money, and so disagreeable did those that did take them in make themselves that after the first night Cecile and Joe determined to sleep in the forest close by.
— from The Children's Pilgrimage by L. T. Meade

And so did David and Oliver, adding, that no tongue could express the joy of their hearts, and the greatness of the things which they had both seen and heard.
— from New Witnesses for God (Volume 2 of 3) by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

Beyond the screen Narayan Singh stood like a statue, deaf, dumb, immovable.
— from Affair in Araby by Talbot Mundy

You have also given me the original of a statement dated December 6, 1963, of Mr. Doyle E. Lane.
— from Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

On the other hand, if a man sets any value on his own opinions, if they are in any real sense a part of himself, he must be guilty of something like deliberate and systematic duplicity during the acquaintance preceding marriage, if his dissent has remained unsuspected.
— from On Compromise by John Morley

A Strange Disappearance Disappointed and puzzled, Tom and Ned went to where Koku was standing in rather a dazed attitude.
— from Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune by Victor Appleton