Thus Milton describes our first frail mother; though when he tells us that women are formed for softness and sweet attractive grace, I cannot comprehend his meaning, unless, in the true Mahometan strain, he meant to deprive us of souls, and insinuate that we were beings only designed by sweet attractive grace, and docile blind obedience, to gratify the senses of man when he can no longer soar on the wing of contemplation.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

She draws only fifteen feet.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

But he probably died or forgot, for he never came.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

c. Thou art more fortunate and great (so [3660] Jovius writes to Cosmo de Medici, then Duke of Florence) for thy virtues, than for thy lovely wife, and happy children, friends, fortunes, or great duchy of Tuscany.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It is a very intelligent tree and will detect the presence of hidden water at a distance of fifty feet, and send out slender long root-fibres to prospect it.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Forfaitierung forfaiting Forfaitierung non-recourse financing Form der Benachrichtigung form of advice Form; Aufmachung eines Dokuments form of a document formaler Gegenwert nominal consideration Formalität formality Format dimensions Formblatt zur Kreditbeantragung credit form Formen der Akkreditive forms of credit Formen der Anrede forms of address Formfehler defect of form Formfehler error in form Formfehler formal defect formlos informal formlos; informell informal formlose Zusammenkunft informal meeting Formmangel lack of form Formsache formality Formulierung; Wortlaut wording Formvorschriften; Förmlichkeiten formal requirements forschen; Forschung research Forscher researcher Forschung und Entwicklung research and development Forschungs- und Entwicklungsfond research and development fund Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft research and development company Forschungs- und Entwicklungstätigkeiten research and development activities Forschungsabteilung research department Forschungsaufwand research effort
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

If he be not rich, in great place, polite and brave, a great doctor, or full fraught with grand titles, though never so well qualified, he is a dunce; but, as [118] Baronius hath it of Cardinal Caraffa's works, he is a mere hog that rejects any man for his poverty.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“And you say that you dug your way a distance of fifty feet to get here?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And it is interesting to notice how some of the world's greatest artists have been very restricted in their use of colour, preferring to depend on form for their chief appeal.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

This occupation, pursued with warmth and depth of feeling for a number of centuries, appealed at once to the intellect and the heart.
— from Rashi by Maurice Liber

I was always so brimming with exaggerated sentiment myself at this time, that I had expected quite a demonstration of farewell from the poor people in the wretched Southgate district, to whom—after a sentimental fashion—I had devoted much time and trouble, and was greatly disappointed to receive little more than "Oh! be you?" when I informed them that I was going to leave them for ever.
— from The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

When they entered the first tunnel on their way, they raised a hideous howl, which they continued until they were through it, which might have been from a feeling of pleasure, recognizing in it something of the character of the delightful gloominess of their own subterranean abodes; or their outcries might have been from a feeling of dread or fear from those narrow and damp caverns, too much for their delicate tastes and constitutions.
— from Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 1 (of 2) being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection by George Catlin

The Petition and Advice having left this matter of the number of seats and their distribution open for farther consideration, Richard and his Council had been advised by the lawyers that it would be more "according to law" and therefore more safe and more agreeable to the spirit and letter of the Petition and Advice , to abandon the late temporary method, though sanctioned by the Long Parliament, and revert to the ancient use and wont.
— from The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by David Masson

Your images hover,—and here we are Solid and stirring in flesh and bone,— Edward's and Dorothy's—all their own,— A goodly record for Time to show Of a syllable spoken so long ago!— Shall I bless you, Dorothy, or forgive For the tender whisper that bade me live?
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

I also presume that the reduced sward in the pens receives a very considerable degree of fertility from the feet of the sheep.
— from The different modes of cultivating the pine-apple From its first introduction into Europe to the late improvements of T.A. Knight, esq. by J. C. (John Claudius) Loudon

The Academy into which the Christian artist entered was under the direction of Friedrich Füger, a painter of the French type, not without renown, but given over to the service of Jupiter, Prometheus, and Venus, and when he chanced to turn to sacred subjects, such as The Death of Abel and The Reading Magdalen , affectation and empty pretence were his resource.
— from Overbeck by J. Beavington Atkinson

But all the sea-water I ever saw was the same in colour and smell and beastliness of taste and disposition, only fit for sharks and alligators and sorts like them.
— from The Duke's Sweetheart: A Romance by Richard Dowling

He always flew British Air from London rather than taking a direct Olympic flight from Boston, mainly because he was an Anglophile but also because he wasn't quite sure he trusted Greek maintenance.
— from Project Cyclops by Thomas Hoover

But thou—what reason hast thou to desire his death?" "Ootah findeth favor with Annadoah," said Maisanguaq briefly.
— from The Eternal Maiden by T. Everett (Thomas Everett) Harré