First they spoke of her illness, although Emma interrupted Charles from time to time, for fear, she said, of boring Monsieur Leon; and the latter told them that he had come to spend two years at Rouen in a large office, in order to get practice in his profession, which was different in Normandy and Paris.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Tsulʻkălû′—“Slanting-eyes,” literally “He has them slanting” (or leaning up against something); the prefix ts makes it a plural form, and the name is understood [ 539 ] to refer to the eyes, although the word eye ( aktă′ , plural diktă′ ) is not a part of it.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

It may be replied that this latter difficulty is not a practical one; because we are not called upon to punish a crime until it has been discovered, and then the secondary evil has been caused, and is all the greater because of the previous secrecy.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Death is not a potato.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Burns too could have governed, debated in National Assemblies; politicized, as few could.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

"If Ellen Douglas is not a proud woman this night she should be." "Norman Douglas did a wholly indefensible thing," said the doctor.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

This darkness is not a punishment.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

sy quality Ireidd-dra, n. sappiness Ireiddiad, n. a becoming juicy or fresh Ireiddio, v. to become juicy Ireiddlyd, a. of a juicy quality Iriad, n. a growing fresh Irlas, a. of a fresh verdancy Irlasu, v. to become verdant Irlesni, n. a fresh verdancy Iro, v. to anoint, to grease Irwedd, n. green appearance Irwellt, n. fresh or green grass Irwr, n. an anointer Is, n. the state of going down: a. low; under; interior: prep. below, under Isaâd, n. a rendering low Isaf, a. lowest Isafiad, n. an inferior Isathro, n. an under master Isâu, v. to lower, to abase Isder, n. lowness; meanness Isel, a. low, base; humble Iselâad, n. a making low Iselaidd, a. low or humble Iselâu, v. to make low Iselder, n. lowness; humility Iseldrem, n. a low look Iselfryd, a. humble-minded Iselfrydedd, n. humility Iselgreg, a. softly rumbling Iselgyngian, v. to make a low noise Iseliad, n. a lowering Iselni, n. lowness, abjectness Iselradd, n. a low degree Iselraith, n. a petty jury Iselreithiwr, n. a petty juryman Iselu, v. to abase, to depress Isg, n. that is on the surface Isgal, n. froth, scum Isgell, n. broth, soup, pottage Isgwympiedydd, n. sublapsarian Islaw, prep.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

The passage is to be found in a note at p. 89 of volume one of the quarto edition of "The British Dominions in North America," published in London in 1831.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

The man who suffers his heart to be fluttered, or his passions to be roused, by any just action he is called upon to do, is not a philosopher.
— from The Man in Black: An Historical Novel of the Days of Queen Anne by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Their dress is neat and picturesque, their personal appearance pleasing, and closer acquaintance makes us feel well-disposed towards these children of the Rising Sun.
— from St Nicotine of the Peace Pipe by Edward Vincent Heward

That deity is not a part of nature, because he can make nature plastic to his tread, and leave his footmark on the hard rock as if it were soft mud.
— from Roman Mosaics; Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan

(2) Whether right is fittingly divided into natural and positive right?
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Not one of these five dogmas is now a part of the creed of the Church of England.
— from Trial of C. B. Reynolds For Blasphemy, at Morristown, N. J., May 1887: Defence by Robert Green Ingersoll

Referring to the hypothesis that death depends "upon causes which lie in the nature of life itself," he says :— "I do not however believe in the validity of this explanation: I consider that death is not a primary necessity, but that it has been secondarily acquired as an adaptation.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

It has been suggested to me that this sense of duty is not a patriotic sense or a religious sense, or even a social sense in a seaman.
— from Notes on Life & Letters by Joseph Conrad

They differ from other Christians in their weekly administration [pg 127] of the Lord's supper; their love-feasts, of which every member is not only allowed, but required, to partake, and which consist of their dining together at each other's houses in the interval between the morning and afternoon service; their kiss of charity, used on this occasion, at the admission of a new member, and at other times, when they deem it necessary and proper; their weekly collection, before the Lord's supper, for the support of the poor, and defraying other expenses; mutual exhortation; abstinence from blood and things strangled; washing each other's feet, when, as a deed of mercy, it might be an expression of love, the precept concerning which, as well as other precepts, they understand literally; community of goods, so far as that every one is to consider all that he has in his possession and power liable to the calls of the poor and the church; and the unlawfulness of laying up treasures upon earth, by setting them apart for any distant, future, or uncertain use.
— from The Book of Religions Comprising the Views, Creeds, Sentiments, or Opinions, of All the Principal Religious Sects in the World, Particularly of All Christian Denominations in Europe and America, to Which are Added Church and Missionary Statistics, Together With Biographical Sketches by John Hayward

"Dreaming is not a proper way of resting.
— from Daisy by Susan Warner