I remembered the tortured dogs, driven mad, the live sparrows plucked naked by boys and flung into the water, and a long, long series of obscure lingering miseries which I had looked on continually from early childhood in that town; and I could not understand what these sixty thousand people lived for, what they read the gospel for, why they prayed, why they read books and magazines.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

à la démocratie du savoir et, bien qu'ils soient encore loin de nos technologies, n'oublions pas les dizaines de millions d'aveugles et de malvoyants du sud.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Das schönste Glück des denkenden Menschen ist, das Erforschliche erforscht zu haben, und das Unerforschliche ruhig zu verehren —The fairest fortune that can fall to a thinking man is to have searched out the searchable, and restfully to adore the unsearchable.
— 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.

dividend, portion, contingent, share, allotment, fair share, allocation, lot, measure, dose; dole, meed, pittance; quantum, ration; ratio, proportion, quota, modicum, mess, allowance; suerte[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Drunken desire must vomit his receipt, Ere he can see his own abomination.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And skiey sun (that with his rays dissolves) Do minish the level seas and trust their power To dry up all, before the waters can Arrive at the end of their endeavouring.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Divination by means of the divining stalks (the divining plant, milfoil or yarrow) and the tortoiseshell has been carried on from time immemorial, but was not originally practised with the object of ascertaining future events, but in order to decide doubts, much as lots are drawn or a coin tossed in the West.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

VIII Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms, Whose chance on these defenceless dores may sease, If ever deed of honour did thee please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms, He can requite thee, for he knows the charms That call Fame on such gentle acts as these, And he can spred thy Name o're Lands and Seas, What ever clime the Suns bright circle warms.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

To maintain the Roman origin of the Colonna, it was ingeniously supposed (Diario di Monaldeschi, in the Script.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Fortunately the inscription was more discreetly drafted, merely recording the fact that this monument is 'sacred to the memory of the said Francis,' and not committing itself as to the whereabouts of the remains.
— from The Vanishing Man A Detective Romance by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

Dryden died May 1, 1701, some days before Pope was twelve; so early must he therefore have felt the power of harmony, and the zeal of genius.
— from Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope by Samuel Johnson

[146] For instance:— thoughts upon thoughts, ending in sleep and dreams : Nuovo pensier dentro de me si mise, Dal qual più altri nacquero e diversi: E tanto d'uno in altro vaneggiai
— from Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by R. W. (Richard William) Church

After interchange of these letters the subject was frequently revived; upon his return from Scotland it began to take shape as a thing that somehow or other, at no very distant date, must be; and at last, near the end of a letter filled with many unimportant things, the announcement, doubly underlined, came to me.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

In order to leave a desire for its repetition this gratification must have been previously experienced, and we may be sure that nature has devised definite means so as not to leave this occurrence to mere chance.
— from Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by Sigmund Freud

And besides this, the mutilation of the Hermae in one night, when all of them had their faces disfigured, disturbed many even of those who, as a rule, despised such things.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Boy! wilt thou dare disobey me?"
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827 by Various

I knew he had much enimies, and why, because he was a libral man and a man of powar, and did do much good, and them he did do most good to was his greatest enimyes, and it was such men as him in [Pg 123] genral sufferd moste.
— from The Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler (Captain Harry Carter, of Prussia Cove) 1749-1809 by Harry Carter

"Uf dot don'd mean somedings, Parney, you vos a liar!" exclaimed Hans.
— from Frank Merriwell's Chums by Burt L. Standish

About half a dozen dogs, most of which were of mongrel breed, rushed forward at the sound of the wheels, barking vociferously.
— from Light O' the Morning: The Story of an Irish Girl by L. T. Meade