Neither is it sufficient to keep them blind, and in Cimmerian darkness, but withal, as a schoolmaster doth by his boys, to make them follow their books, sometimes by good hope, promises and encouragements, but most of all by fear, strict discipline, severity, threats and punishment, do they collogue and soothe up their silly auditors, and so bring them into a fools' paradise.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

v [B456] for s.t. to increase and diminish in intensity periodically.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

A shriek too fearfully distinct for doubt had been heard within the mansion, breaking forth suddenly and succeeded by a deep stillness, as if a heart had burst in giving it utterance.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

To think often, and never to retain it so much as one moment, is a very useless sort of thinking; and the soul, in such a state of thinking, does very little, if at all, excel that of a looking-glass, which constantly receives variety of images, or ideas, but retains none; they disappear and vanish, and there remain no footsteps of them; the looking-glass is never the better for such ideas, nor the soul for, such thoughts.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

In one of them, buried in a thick tangle of wild pear, crab-apple, sorrel, young oaks, and hopbine, clouds of tiny black flies swarmed round Olga Mihalovna.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"Becoming" Furniture Suitability is the test of good taste always.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Why concern ourselves so much about our beans for seed, and not be concerned at all about a new generation of men?
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Mr. Pickwick is somewhat infirm now; but he retains all his former juvenility of spirit, and may still be frequently seen, contemplating the pictures in the Dulwich Gallery, or enjoying a walk about the pleasant neighbourhood on a fine day.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

—A tradesman’s daughter, who had been for some time engaged to a prosperous young 358 draper in a neighboring town, heard, from one whom she and her parents considered a creditable authority, that he was on the verge of bankruptcy.
— from Foot-prints of a letter carrier; or, a history of the world's correspondece by James Rees

The boys followed Sam's instructions to the letter, and when he came again a week later the puppies were as healthy and lively as crickets.
— from The Dogs of Boytown by Walter A. (Walter Alden) Dyer

The night was far spent when Dick Vaughan proceeded to tether his prisoner as comfortably as might be and to stretch himself in his blankets for sleep.
— from Jan: A Dog and a Romance by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

Perhaps we'll meet some vessel bound for some port in the United States.
— from The Rover Boys on Land and Sea: The Crusoes of Seven Islands by Edward Stratemeyer

As an artist you are but half alive there; one half of your existence is paralyzed; you waste your energies in the creation of works which are coffined within twelve hours after their birth; your power of usefulness is absorbed in a direction which can give you no adequate reward hereafter; and the little time you can devote to your studies and your really valuable work is too often borrowed from sleep.
— from The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, Volume 1 by Elizabeth Bisland

But Faith sez, “It will be too early, they won’t begin to dance till eight.
— from Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Marietta Holley

For a moment, a surge of the bitterest feeling she had ever experienced passed over her; then she called reason to her aid and was obliged to acknowledge that the act was but natural, and that from his standpoint he was much more likely to need it than herself.
— from Midnight In Beauchamp Row 1895 by Anna Katharine Green

This was the form which piety had assumed in India from time immemorial, under the guidance of the Brahmans; for Siddârtha as yet is not the "enlightened,"--he is only an inquirer after that saving knowledge which will open the door of a divine felicity, and raise him above a world of disease and death.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01: The Old Pagan Civilizations by John Lord