The second duet is to be omitted altogether, and indeed with more profit than loss to the opera; for if you will read the scene it evidently becomes cold and insipid by the addition of an air or a duet, and very irksome to the other actors, who must stand, by all the time unoccupied; besides, the noble contest between Ilia and Idamante would become too long, and thus lose its whole interest.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I have already observed that the American statesmen of the present day are very inferior to those who stood at the head of affairs fifty years ago.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Whistler's titles are frequently too long, but they generally convey some direct and valuable information to the beholder. Owned by Richard A. Canfield ARRANGEMENT IN BLACK AND BROWN:
— from The Whistler Book A Monograph of the Life and Position in Art of James McNeill Whistler, Together with a Careful Study of His More Important Works by Sadakichi Hartmann

“We are going to do a very interesting thing this afternoon,” Miss Chandler said while they were eating dinner at the College Club.
— from The Chinese Kitten by Edna A. Brown

He did not live long enough to outgrow this—for a clergyman—unfortunate trend of nature, having died, full of dreams and visions, in the teeth of a lowering conflict with his wardens; but he lived long enough to carry the day and the name for a portion of his people who desired to call their church in honor of a sweet, though rich, old lady who had put her private fortune into their beautiful house of worship, and her warm heart into their future success.
— from The Supply at Saint Agatha's by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

The answer is presumably because the achievement of genuine unity of mind and heart among peoples whose experiences are deeply at variance is thought to be entirely beyond the capacity of society’s existing institutions.
— from One Common Faith by Bahá'í International Community

In treating of these questions, it has been necessary to discuss problems of deep and varied interest to the ethnologist, physicist, and historian, some of which have been partially solved, while others await the light of the higher knowledge which will be the fruit of a wider experience.
— from Cave Hunting Researches on the evidence of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe by William Boyd Dawkins

Another so placed might have recoiled before the unbounded unpopularity which his proceedings brought on him, have given way, vanquished by the difficulties and vexations inherent to the situation--Raven remained at his post.
— from No Surrender by E. Werner

Cobbe, Miss, letter headed "Mr. Darwin and vivisection" in the Times , 290 .
— from Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Charles Darwin

He shook hands with me gravely when I had done, and vanished into the thicket.
— from Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan

She only answered definitely and very indifferently that they could easily get Ralph Emsden if they would go now to Blue Lick, and take his hide,—that is, if the French and their Choctaw Indians had not already possessed themselves of that valuable integument,—as if this were their primal object.
— from The Frontiersmen by Mary Noailles Murfree

The mountains will look few, because only those will be seen which are farthest apart; since, at such a distance, the density increases to such a degree that it causes a brightness by which the darkness of the hills becomes divided and vanishes indeed towards the top.
— from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo