L'application classique de l'e-book m'a permis d'acheter le dernier Brett Easton Ellis, le dernier Beigbedder, le dernier Houellebecq (quoiqu'il soit meilleur à réciter ses poèmes sur fond trip hop en MP3 en ce moment, chez Tricatel.com), de trouver enfin le bouquin de William Gibson (Neuromancien, 1986, ndlr) avec la fameuse formule impérissable sur le cyberspace, j'y ai ajouté le 3001 de Clarke et quelques bons vieux Norman Spinrad et Philip K. Dick pour faire bonne mesure…
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

It may very easily happen—it very often actually does happen—that one single step from the path of purity clouds a man's whole life with misery and unspeakable suffering; and not only that, but even entails lifelong disease on children yet unborn.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Like Browning, he was big enough, even lacking degrees, to be known without the identification of his other names.
— from Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. (Francis Bail) Pearson

No backwoods evangelist ever laid down the law with more violent eloquence.
— from The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

Aldermen, S. C. Bever, E. E. Leach, D. Denlinger, Charles Weare, G. Livensbarger, J. C. Adams.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

On board eager eyes looked down for a first sight of the red imps.
— from Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; Or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land by Victor Appleton

Libertus Fromondus, a theologian of Louvain (a great friend of Jansenius, whose posthumous book entitled Augustinus he in fact published), who also wrote a book entitled explicitly Labyrinthus de Compositione Continui , experienced in full measure the difficulties inherent in both doctrines; and the renowned Ochino admirably presented what he calls 'the labyrinths of predestination'.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

But even Esther looked dubious; the frothed icing on top had an elegant appearance certainly, but underneath was a mass of strange colour and consistency.
— from The Family at Misrule by Ethel Sybil Turner