My accursed Petersburg mood came back, and all my dreams were crushed and crumpled up like leaves by the heat.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

L. Nemo quam bene vivat, sed quamdiu, curat: quum omnibus possit contingere ut bene vivat, ut diu nulli —No one concerns himself with how well he should live, only how long: while none can count upon living long, all have the chance of living well.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

It is not meant of any private Reason; for then there would be as much contradiction in the Lawes, as there is in the Schooles; nor yet (as Sr. Ed, Coke makes it (Sir Edward Coke, upon Littleton Lib.2.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

“He thinks we can use local labor,” Blalok said gloomily.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

At ancient Ayassalook, in the midst of a forbidding desert, we came upon long lines of ruined aqueducts, and other remnants of architectural grandeur, that told us plainly enough we were nearing what had been a metropolis, once.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

At a later period, Madame de Stael came upon Louis Lambert, then a ragged urchin, absorbed in reading a translation of Swedenborg's "Heaven and Hell.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Co' up lass, let's get off ter th' old homestead.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Le support papier est parfaitement adapté à certains usages: la lecture numérique sur ordinateur n'est pas pratique, et ce pour de nombreuses raisons.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

[10] como unos locos, like madmen .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

When the door had closed upon Lord Linden, he said, in a wounded tone,— "I thought only especial friends were admitted to this sanctum of yours.
— from Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

Every word which cleared up, like lightning, the infatuated, but intentional nebulosity of their minds, every hint that was adapted to lead them out of the labyrinth where they obstinated themselves to take up as lasting an abode as possible, every clear conception of matters as they actually stood, was, of course, a crime against the majesty of this Sovereign Assembly.
— from Revolution and Counter-Revolution; Or, Germany in 1848 by Friedrich Engels

They circled until Larry located the large airport there.
— from The Haunted Hangar Sky Scouts/Air Mystery series #3 by Van Powell

Crimson rays clove up like light toward them, but the instant's surprise had been enough, and in it they had leaped on and through the opening, into the outside night!
— from Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various

The Trial of Strength—Defeat of the Government—Shuffling of Ministers—The No-Popery Cry—Dissolution of Parliament—Character of the Derby Government—The Ministers—The Opposition—A Difficult Situation—Public Indifference—Results of the Elections—Macaulay's x Election—Policy of the Opposition—Scheme of a Coalition under Lord Lansdowne—Lord Derby at Goodwood—The Herefordshire Election—Sir James Graham's View of the Situation—Death of Count D'Orsay—Difficulties of Reconciliation—Lord John Russell's Position—A Divided Opposition—Lord Granby's Dissatisfaction—Lord John Russell on Reform—Lord Cowley's Proxy—A Plan to catch Lord Palmerston—Death of the Duke of Wellington page 452 APPENDICES.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 3 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville

At half-past twelve, wondering why her husband did not come upstairs, Lady Litford went in search of him.
— from A Cabinet Secret by Guy Boothby

She knew what she would see: the fine, cross upper lip lifted backwards by the moustache, the small grizzled brown moustache, turned up, that made it look crosser.
— from Mary Olivier: a Life by May Sinclair

Monsieur conveyed the news to his beloved daughter, and, on hearing that she was to be made Queen of Spain, this amiable child uttered loud lamentations.
— from Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Complete by Madame de Montespan

F11-F99 History of single countries (using local list).
— from A Library Primer by John Cotton Dana