It means that a man is severe towards his own heart, that he scorns "beautiful feelings," and that he makes a matter of conscience out of every Yea and Nay!—-Faith saveth: consequently it lies....
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Then the master said to him, "Gracefully, gracefully, don't stick your cap on one ear, you look just like a tom-fool!"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The idea of possession in common has not been worked out from the slow deductions of some thinker buried in his private study, it is a thought which is germinating in the brains of the working masses, and when the revolution, which the close of this century has in store for us, shall have hurled confusion into the camp of our exploiters, you will see that the mass of the people will demand Expropriation, and will proclaim its right to the factory, the locomotive, and the steamship.
— from The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution An Address Delivered in Paris by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

Have I been the Companion of his Riots In all the leud course of our early Youth, Where like unwearied Bees we gather’d Flowers?
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Aphra Behn

She alone of all the Princesses was absent from the Church of Saint Nicholas at Calais, when the King was married there to the Princess Isabelle of France—a child of only eight years old.
— from The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt

Egyptian clover is not native to Egypt, but was introduced from some country outside of Egypt, yet bordering on the Mediterranean.
— from Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw

An unceasing succession of gay hopes, fond desires, ardent wishes, high delights, and unfounded fancies, form the character of our early years; but those which follow are marked with melancholy and increasing sorrows.
— from Solitude With the Life of the Author. In Two Parts by Johann Georg Zimmermann