I thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims.
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

The feelings concerned are so powerful, and we count so positively on finding a responsive feeling in others (all being alike interested), that ought and should grow into must , and recognized indispensability becomes a moral necessity, analogous to physical, and often not inferior to it in binding force.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

Mayhew, too, in his interesting work, London Labour and London Poor , admits that many Cant and Slang phrases are merely old English terms, which have become obsolete through the caprices of fashion.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

As they could not reach me, they had resolved to punish my body; just as boys, if they cannot come at some person against whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog.
— from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

They express the consciousness that you have no enemy to punish, but that you have pain; the consciousness that in spite of all possible Vagenheims you are in complete slavery to your teeth; that if some one wishes it, your teeth will leave off aching, and if he does not, they will go on aching another three months; and that finally if you are still contumacious and still protest, all that is left you for your own gratification is to thrash yourself or beat your wall with your fist as hard as you can, and absolutely nothing more.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

With children having bad colds a similar pinched appearance of the nose may be noticed, which is at least partly due, as remarked to me by Dr. Langstaff, to their constant snuffling, and the consequent pressure of the atmosphere on the two sides.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Perturbationes clavi sunt, quibus corpori animus seu patibulo affigitur.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Preithio, v. to practise Prelad, n. a prelate Pren, n. a tree, a timber Prenfol, n. a wooden chest Prenial, n. a coffer, a shrine Prenio, v. to timber; to bar Prenol, n. a busk of stays Prensaer, n. a carpenter Pres, n. what is quick, sharp, or smart; haste; brushwood; fuel; anything streweed; a crib; a place of resort; brass: a. quick, hasty; sharp, over-running, frequent; present Preseb, n. a crib, a stall Presel, a place over-run; a brake Preseliad, n. a yielding of brakes Preselu, v. to be over-run of foul Preselyn, n. a brake, a thicker Presen, n. the present; this wife Presenol, a. imminent; present Presenoldeb, n. presence Presenu, v. to make present Present, n. a present state Presiad, n. a hastening: a frequenting Presol, a. imminent; quick Prest, n. quickness, smartness Prest, a. ready, quick; soon Prestl, a. ready, smart fluent Prestlaidd, a. apt to prattle Presu, v. to hasten; to frequent Preswyl, n. a being present or ready; a tarrying; habitation Preswylfa, n. a place of residence Preswylfod, n. a dwelling place Preswyliad, n. a residing Preswyliaeth, n. habitation Preswylio, v. to fix an abode Preswyliog, a. having resort Preswylydd, n. an inhabitant Pric, n. a stick; a broach Prid, n. price, value; ransom: a. valuable, precious, dear Pridiad, n. a setting a price Pridiant, n. a ransoming Pridio, v. to set a price to ransom Pridiol, a. equivalent; redeeming Pridioldeb, n. mould, earth, soil, a tile Priddell, n. a mass of earth, a clod; Priddell, a. consisting of masses of earth; glebous Priddelydd, n. a tile maker Pridden, n. an earthen vessel Priddfaen, n. a brick; a burnt tile Priddgalch, n. calcareous earth Priddgist, n. potter’s clay Priddiad, n. a doing with earth Priddin, a. of earth, earthen Priddlestri, n. earthen ware Priddlyd, a. mixed with earth Priddlydu, v. to become earthy Priddo, v. to earth; to cover with earth; to become earth Priddol, a. of mould, of earth Prif, a. prime, principal, chief Prifachos, n. primary cause Prifansawdd, n. primary quality Prifardd, n. a primitive bard Prifder, n. primeness; origin Prifddinas, n. a metropolis Prifiad, n. a thriving, a growing Prifio, v. to thrive, to grow up Prifles, n. a chief good Priflys, n. a supreme court Prifnawd, n. original habit Prifnod, n. prime point; epoch Prifoed, n. a primitive age Prifran, n. primary division Prifred, n. primary course Prifsymudai, n. prime mover Prifwyd, n. a chief sin Prifysgol, n. a primary school Priffordd, n. a high road Prill, n. a little brook, a rill Prin, n. what is of slight trace, a. scarce, rare, scant, spare:
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

"Dissertations on Balaam, Sampson, and Jonah," also, "Observations on famous controverted Passages in Josephus and Justin Martyr," are extremely curious, and such perhaps as only he could have written.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

'You had better let Joe carry some of the things, Miss Audrey,' suggested Cooper, as she packed a large basket; 'he is round about somewhere.'
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

A hand of ice seemed to reach beneath René's blue capote and fasten upon his heart, there came a strange prickling at the roots of his hair, [Pg 94] and little chills shot along his spine.
— from Connie Morgan in the Fur Country by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

Their principal article of diet, the farinha de milho , or flour of Indian corn, appeared so palatable and nutritive, that, after living upon it for some time, I had the curiosity to enquire into the mode of preparing it from the grain.
— from Travels in the interior of Brazil with notices on its climate, agriculture, commerce, population, mines, manners, and customs: and a particular account of the gold and diamond districts. by John Mawe

About his Chariot numberless were pour'd Cherub and Seraph, Potentates and Thrones, And
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

But in such instances, the participle with its adjuncts may be considered a substantive phrase, according to Note 2, Rule 28.
— from English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners by Samuel Kirkham

Common ones growing in crevices and soil pockets among the rocks in the Hudsonian zone are smooth douglasia, alumroot, and bluebell.
— from Olympic National Park, Washington by Gunnar O. Fagerlund

That, in short, no reasoning from generals to particulars can, as such, prove any thing: since from a general principle we can not infer any particulars, but those which the principle itself assumes as known.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

On the 23rd of January 1874 the marriage of the duke to the grand-duchess Marie Alexandrovna, only daughter of Alexander II., emperor of Russia, was celebrated at St Petersburg, and the bride and bridegroom made their public entry into London on the 12th of March.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Formerly the prodigious power of Roman government united citizens and subject peoples, and impressed a human uniformity upon them.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor