They will come regularly every evening to particular trees, where the cunning sportsman lies in wait for them, and the distant orchards next the woods suffer thus not a little.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

= KEY: Value \v.\. SYN: Appreciate, compute, rate, estimate, esteem, treasure, appraise, prize.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The conjectural reading {epitarrothon exeis}, "thou shalt have him as a helper against Tegea," is tempting.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

I can resist everything except temptation.
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

There is one song in particular, whose tune I perfectly recollect, but the words that compose the latter half of it constantly refuse every effort to recall them, though I have a confused idea of the rhymes.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

dīcī hoc in tē nōn potest, posset in Tarquiniō, cum rēgnō esset expulsus , TD.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

I blushed for my race and for myself before this fine savage; and before I could rally enough even to try to reply, the head engineer, who had been watching us through a hole in the tent, came forth to meet us, and my thoughts were diverted by what then took place.
— from Winnetou, the Apache Knight by Karl May

However, the strength of the opposition encouraged the peers to speak with more than their usual freedom.[b] They contended, that the ordinance was unnecessary, since the committee was employed in framing a new model for the army; that it was unjust, since it would operate to the exclusion of the whole peerage from office, while the Commons remained equally eligible to sit in parliament, or to fill civil or military employments.
— from The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Hilaire Belloc

Y E T C. M Advertising, Department A Stores, R Adding Machines, K Cash Registers, E etc. T I N G. Copyright 1909, by Goodwin B. Smith.
— from How to Succeed as an Inventor Showing the Wonderful Possibilities in the Field of Invention; the Dangers to Be Avoided; the Inventions Needed; How to Perfect and Develop New Ideas to the Money Making Stage by Goodwin Brooke Smith

Unless these slime-clogged nostrils can be made capable of inhaling celestial air, I know not how the purest and most intellectual of us can reasonably expect ever to taste a breath of it.
— from Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne

At the same time it would not be fair to disguise from our friends in Germany that certain recent events, especially the action taken against the Jews, have caused and continue to cause us anxiety and distress; and we feel that we ought to share our concern with you here…"
— from The Grey Book A collection of protests against anti-semitism and the persecution of Jews issued by non-Roman Catholic churches and church leaders during Hitlers rule by Johan M. Snoek

It is almost unassailable when supported by general consent; when it is propagated by education; when it has acquired inveteracy by custom: it commonly resists every effort to disturb it, when it is either fortified by example, maintained by authority, nourished by the hopes, or cherished by the fears of a people, who have learned to look upon these delusions as the most potent remedies for their sorrows.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'