Did I ever find anywhere on earth such good air as with thee in thy cave?
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Next day, holding her wild head high that her wild horns should not catch in the wild trees, Wild Cow came up to the Cave, and the Cat followed, and hid himself just the same as before; and everything happened just the same as before; and the Cat said the same things as before, and when Wild Cow had promised to give her milk to the Woman every day in exchange for the wonderful grass, the Cat went back through the Wet Wild Woods waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone, just the same as before.
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

[905] But if the Church were certified who those are, who, though they are still abiding in this life, are yet predestinated to go with the devil into eternal fire, then for them she could no more pray than for him.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He adopted, accordingly, Heraclitus's doctrine of the immediate, which he now called the realm of phenomena; for what exists at any instant, if you arrest and name it, turns out to have been an embodiment of some logical essence, such as discourse might define; in every fact some idea makes its appearance, and such an apparition of the ideal is a phenomenon.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

I said I would dine with them and start directly afterwards, and I asked the advocate to get me a bill on Rome for five thousand ducats, in exchange for the bank notes I gave him.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

You were a fool: I think a woman fetching a man's slippers is a disgusting sight: did I ever fetch YOUR slippers?
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

Another belt of propaganda offers advice gratis to smugglers, and urges the Dutch, in exchange for aniline dyes, to supply the German Government with tin, oil, fat, leather, india-rubber, and other such “peaceful” articles.
— from Kultur in Cartoons With accompanying notes by well-known English writers by Louis Raemaekers

Do it England, For like the Hecticke[8] in my blood he rages, And thou must cure me:
— from The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by William Shakespeare

Prepositions: Drive to market; to despair; drive into exile; from one's presence; out of the city; drive by , with , or under the lash; drive by or past beautiful estates; along the beach; beside the river; through the park; across the field; around the square; to the door; into the barn; out of the sunshine.
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

Did it emanate from the wisdom of man?
— from The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by G. H. (George Henry) Gerberding

The preference which our shipping will obtain on this account, may counterpoise the discouragements it experiences from the aggravated dangers of the Barbary States.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) by Thomas Jefferson

In one direction it extended from the tropical viceroyship of Peru and the torrid lands of Portuguese Brazil, to Cape Horn, lashed by the raging Antarctic seas, and in the other direction it stretched from the chain of the Andes, which runs like a solid wall the length of one of its flanks, to the Atlantic Ocean, [Pg 130] which bathes its extensive coasts.
— from The Social Evolution of the Argentine Republic by Ernesto Quesada

As they see that patients are very commonly getting well under treatment by infinitesimal drugging, which they consider equivalent to no medication at all, they come to disbelieve in every form of drugging and put their whole trust in “nature.”
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Desperate Lackalls, long prowling aimless, now finding hope in desperation itself, everywhere form a nucleus.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

With sudden determination I exclaimed, “Fools!
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

"He keeps on show," Quorn continued, growing more and more dismally in earnest, "fire-irons he has snapped, gun-barrels he has tied in knots, crown pieces he has bitten through, eyes he has gouged out, preserved in spirits of wine, and pickled ears he has wrung off just for fun.
— from A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William, Sir