The curtain draws up, and suddenly a hundred and fifty years are rolled away, and in bright light stands out before us the whole life of the past; the gay dresses, the polished wit, the careless morals, and all the revel and dancing of those merry years before the mighty deluge of the Revolution.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It glows and glitters in my cloudy breast Like stars ...
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Scooping out of the inside of the canoe; inaugurated by Ligogu spell, over the havilali , the adze with the moveable handle.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Those who can best estimate the value of a steady administration, will be most disposed to prize a provision which connects the official existence of public men with the approbation or disapprobation of that body which, from the greater permanency of its own composition, will in all probability be less subject to inconstancy than any other member of the government.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

"Child, life and hope were with thee at thy birth, But life soon bowed thy tender form to earth, And hope forsook thee in thy hour of need.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

We both lay still, beyond the involuntary throbbing of our pricks, pressed as they were against each other, for the at-all-times-thin membrane dividing cunt from arsehole was now stretched to the fineness of gold leaf, and to our sensations did not appear to exist at all.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Nae butter 'll stick to my bread, i.e. , no good fortune ever comes my way.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Pluck off the feathers carefully, cut a slit in the back of the neck to remove crop, then draw the bird in the usual way, and either wipe the inside very clean with a damp cloth, or pour water through it; wipe the outside also, but with a dry cloth; cut off the toes, turn the head of the bird under the wing, with the bill laid straight along the breast; skewer the legs, which must not be crossed; flour the pheasant well, lay it to a brisk fire, and baste it constantly and plentifully with well-flavoured butter.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

His life has been lonely somehow, and you seemed to fill it.
— from The Art of Disappearing by John Talbot Smith

Both ladies stared after him.
— from Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs by Anne Warner

The fate of their comrade seemed to dishearten them, and they had crept back like snails over the rocks and vanished during the night.
— from Frank Merriwell's Triumph; Or, The Disappearance of Felicia by Burt L. Standish