Drowning is not so pitiful
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

Spread it all and arrange the white place, does this show in the house, does it not show in the green that is not necessary for that color, does it not even show in the explanation and singularly not at all stationary.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

Come let us go, against the pallid shield Of the wan sky the almond blossoms gleam, The corncrake nested in the unmown field Answers its mate, across the misty stream On fitful wing the startled curlews fly, And in his sedgy bed the lark, for joy that Day is nigh, Scatters the pearlèd dew from off the grass,
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

She will marry at last, but not him: he is a proper man indeed, and well qualified, but he wants means: another of her suitors hath good means, but he wants wit; one is too old, another too young, too deformed, she likes not his carriage: a third too loosely given, he is rich, but base born: she will be a gentlewoman, a lady, as her sister is, as her mother is: she is all out as fair, as well brought up, hath as good a portion, and she looks for as good a match, as Matilda or Dorinda: if not, she is resolved as yet to tarry, so apt are young maids to boggle at every object, so soon won or lost with every toy, so quickly diverted, so hard to be pleased.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

As soon as Castruccio reached the age of fourteen he began to take less notice of the chiding of Messer Antonio and Madonna Dianora and no longer to fear them; he left off reading ecclesiastical books, and turned to playing with arms, delighting in nothing so much as in learning their uses, and in running, leaping, and wrestling with other boys.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

“I will not flatter you, child,” cries Allworthy; “I fear your case is desperate: I never saw stronger marks of an unalterable resolution in any person than appeared in her vehement declarations against receiving your addresses; for which, perhaps, you can account better than myself.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The unconscious desire is not something actually existing, but merely a tendency to a certain behaviour; it has exactly the same status as a force in dynamics.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Yet this discursiveness is not so irrelevant to the handful of pages which follow.
— from A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad

Every man in the infancy of art observes an order which approximates more or less closely to that from which this highest delight results; but the diversity is not sufficiently marked, as that its gradations should be sensible, except in those instances where the predominance of this faculty of approximation to the beautiful (for so we may be permitted to name the relation between this highest pleasure and its cause) is very great.
— from English literary criticism by Charles Edwyn Vaughan

She delights in new shoes, and changes her shoes all day long at regular intervals of three hours each.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Havelock Ellis

Do I not stand as I always stood for you?
— from When We Dead Awaken by Henrik Ibsen

“Does it not seem odd to thee?” “Odd, indeed, O my mother,” the youth replied, coming to a halt before her.
— from The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini

"Men of science delight in nothing so much as in finding excuses for rejecting the greatest truths."
— from The Dweller on the Threshold by Robert Hichens

In the primary meaning of between and among there is a sharp distinction, as already seen in Sec. 313; but in Modern English the difference is not so marked.
— from An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell

The supremacy of Mr. Danjuro is due in no small degree to his ability to play both male and female characters with equal éclat .
— from Japanese Plays and Playfellows by Osman Edwards

O what did I now see in that blessed sixth of John, "And him
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan