Within there are Jews from Jerusalem who are tearing each other in pieces over their foolish ceremonies, and barbarians who drink and drink, and spill their wine on the pavement, and Greeks from Smyrna with painted eyes and painted cheeks, and frizzed hair curled in twisted coils, and silent, subtle Egyptians, with long nails of jade and russett cloaks, and Romans brutal and coarse, with their uncouth jargon.
— from Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act by Oscar Wilde

The Sunland was very dim and distant, and such memories had no power over him.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

In this manner, selecting it as the symbol of his wife's liability to sin, sorrow, decay, and death, Aylmer's sombre imagination was not long in rendering the birthmark a frightful object, causing him more trouble and horror than ever Georgiana's beauty, whether of soul or sense, had given him delight.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Drink and drink about," said the Baronet.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

When he thinks that he is reasoning he is really disputing, just because he cannot define and divide, and so know that of which he is speaking; and he will pursue a merely verbal opposition in the spirit of contention and not of fair discussion.
— from The Republic by Plato

An illusion, / a shadow, a fiction, and the greatest earthly possession insignificant; the whole of life nothing but a dream, and dreams are shadows.
— 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.

At the instigation of persons about him, he engaged some ruffians to murder his antagonist; but the plot being discovered, and dreading a similar attempt upon himself, he gained over Caesar’s veteran soldiers, by distributing among them all the money he could collect.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

‘Too delicate and difficult a subject for such interference,’ I replied.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

This method of preparing the catheter and the reasons for so doing are discussed at somewhat greater length in the following selection from Paul (VI. xix): ‘Wherefore taking a catheter proportionate to the age and sex we prepare the instrument for use.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see, And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be— Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a liar from his birth, With a record of unreason seldom paralleled on earth.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

This they ate day after day, and so were able to keep a little life in them though they were always faint and hungry.
— from Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages by Anonymous

I have wished for the Prince to begin to learn what will fall upon him after my days are done; and so, though alone, I have brought him with me, and have confided his health to the hands of God, trusting in His mercy to guard him, and to guide all his actions to His greater service."
— from The Court of Philip IV.: Spain in Decadence by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

In general the swarms of devouring insects and other noxious vermin are assumed to have been sent at the instigation of Satan ( instigante sathana, per [Pg 5] maleficium diabolicum ), and are denounced and deprecated as snares of the devil and his satellites ( diaboli et ministrorum insidias ); again they are treated as creatures of God and agents of the Almighty for the punishment of sinful man; from this latter point of view every effort to exterminate them by natural means would be regarded as a sort of sacrilege, an impious attempt to war upon the Supreme Being and to withstand His designs.
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans

"The offence of profane swearing is aggravated by the consideration, that in it duty and decency are sacrificed to the slenderest of temptations.
— from Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness and Happiness Being a Series of Lectures to Youth of Both Sexes, on Character, Principles, Associates, Amusements, Religion, and Marriage by John Mather Austin

"From the seats of the mighty they have said that he must live—to die another day; and see to it, or the mighty folk will say that you must die to live another day—in a better world, my Gabord."
— from The Seats of the Mighty, Volume 1 by Gilbert Parker

It slipped down and discovered a similar panel beyond it, which was operated by a spring placed in plain sight.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Her duties as daughter and sister and friend, as well as those to the neighbouring poor, were, if possible, more actively and perseveringly performed than they had even been before.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

Look at the good we done around Dyea and Skagway.
— from The Winds of Chance by Rex Beach

Oh, Christian, come and say to-day, "I believe there is a possibility of such a change out of that life of spiritual death, and darkness, and sadness, and complaining, that I have often lived, into the land of supply of every want; where the grace of Jesus is proved sufficient every day, every hour.
— from The Master's Indwelling by Andrew Murray