H2 anchor Praemeditation, Aggravateth A Crime arising from a sudden Passion, is not so great, as when the same ariseth from long meditation: For in the former case there is a place for Extenuation, in the common infirmity of humane nature: but he that doth it with praemeditation, has used circumspection, and cast his eye, on the Law, on the punishment, and on the consequence thereof to humane society; all which in committing the Crime, hee hath contemned, and postposed to his own appetite.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

and a single person is never seen to reap the joy and solace that is found with married folks.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Naturalization, as a social process, is naturally something more fundamental than the legal ceremony of naturalization.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

You know it is written Vae Soli; and a single person is never seen to reap the joy and solace that is found among those that are wedlockt."
— from Lady Lilith by Stephen McKenna

“The timber of those trees which grow in moist and shady places is not so good as that which comes from a more expos’d situation, nor is it so close, substantial and durable”: Upon which he much prefers the timber growing in Tuscany , before that towards the Venetian side, and upper part of the Gulph : And that timber so grown, was in greatest esteem long before Pliny, we have the Spear of Agamemnon ........... ἔχων ἀνεμοτρεφὲς ἔγχος.
— from Sylva; Or, A Discourse of Forest Trees. Vol. 1 (of 2) by John Evelyn

But, by Jove, sir, what a splendid painter! I never saw anything I liked better than that picture of his in the last Exhibition.
— from At His Gates: A Novel. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The famous dirge which Cornelia sings can hardly be spoken of now, except in Lamb's artfully simple phrase "I never saw anything like it," and the final speeches of Flamineo and his sister deserve the same endorsement.
— from A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

"It must be in the air," laughed Grace, as she pulled in Nabob sharply.
— from The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle; Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run by Laura Lee Hope

After a default, however, a subsequent payment is not strictly a performance of the condition upon which the mortgaged deed provided that title should revest.
— from Commercial Law by Richard William Hill

{41} By th’ sowl av St. Patrick, I niver seen sich a set o’ mugs nayther before nor since.
— from The Voyage of the Arrow to the China Seas. Its Adventures and Perils, Including Its Capture by Sea Vultures from the Countess of Warwick, as Set Down by William Gore, Chief Mate by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

4. Other Stories : Selections from the Wonder Book—Hawthorne; Jungle Book—Kipling; Gulliver's Travels—Swift; Alice in Wonderland—Carroll; Robinson Crusoe—Defoe; The Hall of Heroes—Royal Treasury of Story and Song, Part III, Nelson & Sons.
— from Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature by Ontario. Department of Education