[4450] author, quod extendi et locupletari hoc subjectum plerique postulabant, et eorum importunitate victus, animum utcunque renitentem eo adegi, ut jam sexta vice calamum in manum sumerem, scriptionique longe et a studiis et professione mea alienae, me accingerem, horas aliquas a seriis meis occupationibus interim suffuratus, easque veluti ludo cuidam ac recreationi destinans ;
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But to Pierre he always remained what he had seemed that first night: an unfathomable, rounded, eternal personification of the spirit of simplicity and truth.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Or you can take the definition in another form, in which it is given by Mr. Tiedeman, when he says: The object of government is to impose that degree of restraint upon human actions which is necessary to a uniform, reasonable enjoyment of private rights.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

ANT: Uncommon, rare, exceptional, uncustomary, extraordinary, abnormal, irregular, unusual.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Old Brahm I, and I Saturnius am; Not Time affects me—I am Time, old, modern as any, Unpersuadable, relentless, executing righteous judgments, As the Earth, the Father, the brown old Kronos, with laws, Aged beyond computation, yet never new, ever with those mighty laws rolling, Relentless I forgive no man—whoever sins dies—I will have that man's life; Therefore let none expect mercy—have the seasons, gravitation, the appointed days, mercy?
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Chaque livre fait l'objet d'une fiche avec un résumé et un extrait.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

“Already up, Raoul?” exclaimed the count.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Now men suppose that acting Unjustly rests entirely with themselves, and conclude that acting Justly is therefore also easy.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Consciousness alone unites remote existences into one Person.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

The leading men as usual received each a portion from the table.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin

The rule is, that just as the productions of adjacent areas usually resemble each other closely, so do the productions of successive periods in the same area; and as the productions of remote areas generally differ widely, so do the productions of the same area at remote epochs.
— from The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace

But there was no kick to block, for the full-back only backed away a pace or two when the pigskin reached him, and then tossed to the corner of the field and to the eager hands of an uncovered right end who had but to make three strides before he was over the line.
— from The Turner Twins by Ralph Henry Barbour

"To dissuade any obstinate man is hard, but sometimes at least successful--to dissuade a weak man is quite easy, but always unsuccessful," replies Erwin.
— from Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin

During my interview with Sir Ian Hamilton, I brought these facts to his knowledge, but I found that he was already well informed of the interest and sympathy which the Zion Mule Corps had aroused among the neutral Jews of the world, as he himself had received letters from prominent Israelites in America, and, among others, one from the editor of the New York Jewish newspaper, The Day , asking if such a unit really existed.
— from With the Zionists in Gallipoli by J. H. (John Henry) Patterson

“An understandable remark; exactly what I should have said fifty years ago; I didn't know the girls of to-day had it in 'em.
— from The Lay Anthony: A Romance by Joseph Hergesheimer

Scalchi was the possessor of a voice of delicious quality and unusual range, every note in its compass of two and a half octaves being of a wonderfully soft yet penetrating tone, and of great power.
— from Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday by Henry Charles Lahee

The weather, the newspaper, the last accident, the little dog, the bric- -brac, the love of horses, etc., are good and unfailing resources, except that very few people have the readiness to remember this wealth of subjects at once.
— from Manners and Social Usages by M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) Sherwood

We have seen with sincere concern the flames of war lighted up again in Europe, and nations with which we have the most friendly and useful relations engaged in mutual destruction.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Thomas Jefferson

And, verily, thou hast asserted this claim to equality and unalienable right, even now, by giving thy husband his bill of divorcement, in thy sense of the Golden Rule.
— from Slavery Ordained of God by F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Ross