The psychological pre-requisites:—Ignorance and lack of culture, —the sort of ignorance which has unlearned every kind of shame: let any one imagine those impudent saints in the heart of Athens; [Pg 162] The Jewish instinct of a chosen people : they appropriate all the virtues, without further ado, as their own, and regard the rest of the world as their opposite; this is a profound sign of spiritual depravity ; The total lack of real aims and real duties, for which other virtues are required than those of the bigot— the State undertook this work for them : and the impudent people still behaved as though they had no need of the State.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Better the pretty influence of the tea cups and saucers gracefully wielded in a woman's hand than all the inappropriate power snatched at the point of the pen from the unwilling sterner sex.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

[Note that the Subject of the given Proposition settles which Half we are to use; and that its Predicate settles in which portion of that Half we are to place the Red Counter.] pg034 TABLE II.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

“Ah, that indeed, Pip!” said Joe.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

MEPHISTOPHELES All that is promised shall delight thee purely; No skinflint bargain shalt thou see.
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Genthius then thinking that he had got what he asked, did a wicked and impious deed in seizing and throwing into prison some Roman ambassadors who were sent to him.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

she declared aloud, though in private she expressed herself with greater tenderness.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As we neared the high tower a patrol shot down from above, throwing its piercing searchlight full upon my craft, and a voice roared out a command to halt, following with a shot as I paid no attention to his hail.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The first thing I made of these was a great cap for my head, with the hair on the outside, to shoot off the rain; and this I performed so well, that after I made me a suit of clothes wholly of these skins—that is to say, a waistcoat, and breeches open at the knees, and both loose, for they were rather wanting to keep me cool than to keep me warm.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

[556] a thing in part seriously attempted amongst us, but not effected.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The Prince of Dawsbergen despatched an embassy of noblemen to assure his neighbour that the match would be highly acceptable to him and that in proper season the betrothal might be announced.
— from The Prince of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon

Put away the little picnic Till the coming of the spring; Useless now the swaying hammock And the idle picnic swing.
— from Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old and New by Bill Nye

And then I proceeded still more ineptly by begging him not to be disturbed.
— from Dariel: A Romance of Surrey by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

The rain lay among them in pools, squalid buildings overlooked them, and the church, with its manifest inadequacy to a fine site and a great city, did but little towards overcoming the mean and harsh impression made—on such a day especially—by its surroundings.
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The foliage of Central Park, already heavy, still preserved the freshness of its new birth, and invited the stroller on the Avenue to its protecting shade.
— from That Fortune by Charles Dudley Warner

Carlyle writes her letters full of lamentations, the wail of a Titan in pain, superbly exaggerated for literary effect.
— from A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies by Oscar Wilde

He left Fangalii unexpiated; suffered that house of cards, the Tamasese government, to fall by its own frailty and without remark or lamentation; left the Samoan question openly and fairly to the conference: and in the meanwhile, to allay the local heats engendered by Becker and Knappe, he sent to Apia that invaluable public servant, Dr. Stuebel.
— from A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Robert Louis Stevenson

The satire which Archilochus had directed against private enemies was extended, as we have seen, by Simonides to a whole sex; and thus its purely selfish character had been considerably modified.
— from Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2) by John Addington Symonds