d) L'écrit réconcilié avec l'écran La lucidité nous a donc ouvert les yeux sur quoi: un écran.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Men go forth to their labours until the evening; but she is awake before them, and you might think that the sorrow in her face was at the thought of the whole long day of love yet to come.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

I saw that one of us must knock under, the drink devil or Jerry Barker, and I said that it should not be Jerry Barker, God helping me; but it was a struggle, and I wanted all the help I could get, for till I tried to break the habit I did not know how strong it was; but then Polly took such pains that I should have good food, and when the craving came on I used to get a cup of coffee, or some peppermint, or read a bit in my book, and that was a help to me; sometimes I had to say over and over to myself, 'Give up the drink or lose your soul!
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

I am quite of your opinion, sir, and we should soon make an end of Mazarin if we had only a dozen officers like yourself, without prejudices, vigilant and incorruptible.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

An hour behind the fleeting breath, Later by just an hour than death, — Oh, lagging yesterday!
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

“It is a pity to see it; and a pity to see your eyes—and the scar of fire on your forehead: and the worst of it is, one is in danger of loving you too well for all this; and making too much of you.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Then also take the finest can, We fill with fresh wine, for your sake: I offer it, and humbly wish That not alone your thirst is slake,— That, as the drops below its brink, So many days of life you drink!
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“My physician having acquainted me (which I take very kindly of him) that I am in danger of leaving you all very shortly, I have determined to say a few words to you at this our parting, before my distemper, which I find grows very fast upon me, puts it out of my power.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

The young larches wore feathery green upon their crests, primroses shone on slopes where the grass was still pale and dead, snowdrops peeped out beside the wooden fences, and here and there, shining out of the brown decay of last year's leaves and thick ground-ivy, he found hepaticas.
— from The Wave: An Egyptian Aftermath by Algernon Blackwood

All artists have got to see a great deal of life, you know, if they're to amount to anything.
— from Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

While I was kneeling over the bars, I was violently startled by the fall of one large drop of Warm Water, from a great height, exactly in the middle of a bald place, which has been widening a great deal of late years on the top of my head.
— from My Miscellanies, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Wilkie Collins

It is in such places that you will find the description of literature you are in want of.
— from Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Borrow

While they waited there in silence the hours dragged on like years.
— from One Man in His Time by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

The man drunk on love yearns to hide away from the busy haunts of men and write poetry for the magazines.
— from The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann

They had lately voted a sum of forty thousand dollars to make good a deficiency of last year, which had been used for some other purpose; in consequence the deficiency fell upon the pay of the Army, although that could not increase, because the number of men was never increased; it might be less, as the nominal, not the actual number of men was appropriated for.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress

In the next breath he went on in a kind of passionate despair: "Oh, Lina, you were so beautiful, and I loved your beauty so well.
— from Jaquelina by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

"All that business o' dyin' o' love, you know, I reckon's so much moon-shine.
— from Command by William McFee

25. dctr04 Of late years great improvements in the form of the boiler have been introduced.
— from A Text-book of Paper-making by C. F. (Charles Frederick) Cross