I remembered that he never spoke but to answer; that though at intervals he had considerable time to himself, yet I had never seen him reading—no, not even a newspaper; that for long periods he would stand looking out, at his pale window behind the screen, upon the dead brick wall; I was quite sure he never visited any refectory or eating house; while his pale face clearly indicated that he never drank beer like Turkey, or tea and coffee even, like other men; that he never went any where in particular that I could learn; never went out for a walk, unless indeed that was the case at present; that he had declined telling who he was, or whence he came, or whether he had any relatives in the world; that though so thin and pale, he never complained of ill health.
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

I love order and cleanliness— “Et cantharus et lanx Ostendunt mihi me”— [“The dishes and the glasses shew me my own reflection.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Ragstatt was the author of the following works:—(1) "Jefeh Maréh" (Amsterdam, 1671), written in Latin, in which he endeavoured to prove, as against the Jewish controversialists, especially Lipman of Mülhausen, the Messianic mission of Jesus.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

The pathetic entreaties which I poured out of my heart had less effect upon her than upon two young sisters, her companions and friends: had I not concentrated every look of mine upon the heartless girl, I might have discovered that her friends excelled her in beauty and in feeling, but my prejudiced eyes saw no one but Angela.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I remembered that he never spoke but to answer; that, though at intervals he had considerable time to himself, yet I had never seen him reading—no, not even a newspaper; that for long periods he would stand looking out, at his pale window behind the screen, upon the dead brick wall; I was quite sure he never visited any refectory or eating house; while his pale face clearly indicated that he never drank beer like Turkey, or tea and coffee even, like other men; that he never went anywhere in particular that I could learn; never went out for a walk, unless, indeed, that was the case at present; that he had declined telling who he was, or whence he came, or whether he had any relatives in the world; that though so thin and pale, he never complained of ill health.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

El repertorio de estas compañías consiste en las obras más sobresalientes del teatro lírico antiguo y moderno.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

En las tardes de verano, especialmente cuando la atmósfera pura del Ecuador se encuentra libre de vapores y de nubes, las faldas argentadas de este rarísimo nevado, vistas de lejos, [4] arrebatan el alma, aún de las personas que tienen menos hábito y menos propensiones a contemplar con entusiasmo las obras magnas de la creación.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The body cannot endure loss of moisture.
— from My Own Story by Emmeline Pankhurst

In the course of a few centuries, I am convinced, every line of Mallarmé will have become perfectly clear, as a corrupt Greek text becomes clear in time.
— from Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons

Sure, I wouldn't raise my hand to a woman in a thousand years, and what do women care about a man unless he can earn lots of money and leather the devil out of them when they don't behave themselves?
— from Duty, and other Irish Comedies by Seumas O'Brien

64.—If any player lead out of turn, his adversaries may either call the card erroneously led, or may call a suit from him or his partner when it is next the turn of either of them to lead.
— from Hoyle's Games Modernized by Professor Hoffmann

Some distance behind it, and separated by a wide chasm, over which a bamboo bridge had been thrown, was a wide level space, with mountains rising above it, on which sheep and goats were feeding—the fields fenced round by a shrub called el lechero, or milk-tree, which derives its name from a white liquid oozing out of it when a branch is broken off.
— from In New Granada; Or, Heroes and Patriots by William Henry Giles Kingston

This second 78 son of William the Silent, and, through his mother, the grandson of Maurice of Saxony, whom he resembled in feature and in character, Early life of Maurice. had not as yet attracted much attention.
— from Europe in the Sixteenth Century, 1494-1598, Fifth Edition Period 4 (of 8), Periods of European History by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Johnson