For towards the close of life, every day we live gives us the same kind of sensation as the criminal experiences at every step on his way to be tried.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

Comme on lui en demandait la raison: «Dans la peinture, répondit-il, toutes les fautes sont exposées à la vue; mais dans la médecine, elles sont enterrées avec le malade.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Comme on lui en demandait la raison: «C'est, répondit-il, que je garde l'autre a l'accusé.» Quelle habitude Alexandre le Grand avait-il?--Ce procédé a-t-il éveillé la curiosité de ses courtisans?--Comment le leur a-t-il expliqué?
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Now precisely at the moment when Joly published his Dialogues aux Enfers the secret societies were particularly active, and since by this date a number of Jews had penetrated into their ranks a whole crop of literary efforts directed against Jews and secret societies marked the decade.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

'Why, they hove it overboard, and it sunk like a chunk of lead.' 'Edward, did the child look like it was choked?' says one. '
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

[35-6] la batalla de las Pirámides; [35-7] cuál otro la ejecución de Luis XVI.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

[‘ shamble ’] scamu (ea, eo, o) f. ‘ shame ,’ confusion , Cp (o), Lk (eo): disgrace, dishonour , Cr (o): insult , MkR (o): shameful circumstance , WW: modesty , CP: private parts , Gen, WW .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Knowing how noble and high-minded Nita was, she had no fears of being thus dispossessed, and stayed coolly on, looking every day for [Pg 229] the advent of Sir George Merlin, who had promised to soon follow his betrothed across the water.
— from They Looked and Loved; Or, Won by Faith by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Mais, pour mieux démontrer toute cette dépendance et ses causes, servons-nous ici de l’anatomie comparée; ouvrons les entrailles de l’homme et des animaux.
— from Man a Machine by Julien Offray de La Mettrie

The knowledge which each generation acquires at the cost of health, yes, at the cost of life even, dies with it, for the most part.
— from Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 by Various

I was expected to write one column of leader every day, review books, and “paragraph” or condense articles to a brief item of news.
— from Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland

I hold that the canons of literary ethics do not permit one to alter a dead man's manuscript.
— from The Book of Gud by Harold Hersey

There are elements of decay and death furnished to men and women, tempting their weakness, and forced upon their adoption by the conventionalities of life, every day, every hour, and everywhere.
— from Wild Northern Scenes Or, Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod by S. H. (Samuel H.) Hammond

When at length the West Bow was invaded by civic reformers, the Nelsons removed to a more commodious house, the dwelling in an elder century of Lady Elizabeth, Duchess of Gordon, while the duke held the Castle for James II.
— from William Nelson: A Memoir by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

The dummy was fastened and sealed in exactly the same way and, as in the model, one could see here and there, when the wrapper was torn, corners of large envelopes, duplicates of those in which I had enclosed Félix Faure's papers and the Memoirs which we had partly written in collaboration.
— from My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil