Da indi in qua mi fuor le serpi amiche, perch'una li s'avvolse allora al collo, come dicesse 'Non vo' che piu` diche'; e un'altra a le braccia, e rilegollo, ribadendo se' stessa si` dinanzi, che non potea con esse dare un crollo.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

This being (ens rationis ratiocinatae) is therefore a mere idea and is not assumed to be a thing which is real absolutely and in itself.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

mishap &c. (misfortune) 735; split, collapse, smash, blow, explosion. repulse, rebuff, defeat, rout, overthrow, discomfiture; beating, drubbing; quietus, nonsuit[obs3], subjugation; checkmate, stalemate, fool's mate.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Dey’s de dadblamedest creturs to ’sturb a body, en rustle roun’ over ’im, en bite his feet, when he’s tryin’ to sleep, I ever see.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Sitting on the sofa with the little cushions on its arms, in what used to be his old schoolroom, and looking into Natásha’s wildly bright eyes, Rostóv re-entered that world of home and childhood which had no meaning for anyone else, but gave him some of the best joys of his life; and the burning of an arm with a ruler as a proof of love did not seem to him senseless, he understood and was not surprised at it.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

(See fig 2. T tube connecting pump to vessel to be exhausted; R , reservoir, raised above A to drive air in B and C through D and out into open air; R is then lowered, and B and C fill with air from receiver.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Always harshly treated by Enjolras, roughly repulsed, rejected yet ever returning to the charge, he said of Enjolras: “What fine marble!”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

end poetry block end rend rend=';' King Charles at once removed his feathered tile.
— from Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land by Charles Godfrey Leland

end poetry block end rend rend=';' O wad some power the giftie gie us
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5, November 1850 by Various

end poetry block end rend rend=';' A fearful oath!—I thought; and so Thought others, for a murmur low Ran round the circle, till at length The wondering feeling gathered strength, And some, who had not known him long, Declared them words of cruel wrong, And swore to keep no friendly troth With one who framed so hard an oath.
— from Forest, Rock, and Stream A series of twenty steel line-engravings by Nathaniel Parker Willis

end poetry block end rend rend=';' All Baltimore and New Orleans seemed centered into one, As if their stars of beauty had been fused into a sun;
— from Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land by Charles Godfrey Leland

end poetry block end rend rend=';' To point a moral or adorn a tale.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5, November 1850 by Various

A line in one of our popular songs, rend=';' “How sweetly the breeze blows off the shore,” end poetry block end rend refers to the wind which begins at evening to blow from the coasts situated between and near the tropics: and an equally grateful breeze blows by day from the sea to the shore in those warm climates.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 4, October 1852 by Various

end poetry block end rend rend=';' Shall I tell you how he wooed her?
— from Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land by Charles Godfrey Leland

end poetry block end rend rend=';' Lay not that flattering unction to your soul.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5, November 1850 by Various

So, to put it more in detail, must all such adventitious tricks as limiting apprentices; limiting each laborer's speed to that of the slowest; limiting the kinds of things a man can reasonably do—in short, all limiting of labor below its best efficiency by men or masters, masters remembering of course that to best efficiency reasonable rest, food and other good conditions are essential.
— from The Unpopular Review Vol. I January-June 1914 by Various