Whatever, therefore, is subject to the condition of time, although, as Aristotle deemed of the world, it never have either beginning or end, and its life be stretched to the whole extent of time's infinity, it yet is not such as rightly to be thought eternal.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

Except bills of exchange, and some other mercantile bills, all other deeds, bonds, and contracts, are subject to a stamp duty.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Thoroughly exhausted by our exertions, we made the best of our way back to the platform, and throwing ourselves upon the bed of leaves, slept sweetly and soundly for some hours.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

For that no mortal may escape; but on every side a wide snare encompasses us.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

Unhappy do I call all those who have only one choice: either to become evil beasts, or evil beast-tamers.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He had but one eye, but one ear, and no jaw to speak of.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

By our inclusions and omissions we trace the field's extent; by our emphasis we mark its foreground and its background; by our order we read it in this direction or in that.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Look into the background of every family, of every body, of every community: everywhere the fight of the sick against the healthy—a silent fight for the most part with minute poisoned powders, with pin-pricks, with spiteful grimaces of patience, but also at times with that diseased pharisaism of pure pantomime, which plays for choice the rôle of "righteous indignation."
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

All smoked, excepting Dad McGuire, Who stirred the embers of the fire, And placed thereon what seemed to be, The remnants of a hemlock tree; 'Twas one of those ungainly stumps, Composed of twisted knots and bumps, Which every boy or even man, In chopping wood, skips if he can; 'Twas such a chunk as may be seen After the woodpile's chopped up clean; The log they split the blocks upon And leave when all the rest is gone.
— from The Passing of the Storm, and Other Poems by Alfred Castner King

Had I reigned all these years as mistress not of England but of Europe,—had nations wheedled me in the place of barons,—young Riczi had been none the less avenged.
— from Chivalry: Dizain des Reines by James Branch Cabell

Let us imagine, now, that we possessed some means of measuring electrical repulsion by weights, a means which would be supplied, for example, by our electrical pendulums; then we could make the following observation.
— from Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach

All keen scholars of the West went to the University of Paris, the daughter of kings and popes, and the intellectual centre not of a strip of kingdom between Anjou and the Empire, but of Europe itself.
— from Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by T. Clifford (Thomas Clifford) Allbutt

“In the old days,” she explained, “back on Earth, if a man scalped an enemy, he counted coup.
— from Sand Doom by Murray Leinster

Then, and then only, as she felt the fresh reins placed in her hands, and saw the ruthless horde around her fall back and leave her free, did she understand his meaning, did she comprehend that he gave her back both liberty and life, and, with the surrender of the horse he loved, the noblest and most precious gift that the Arab ever bestows or ever receives.
— from Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida

“A draft on Smithers & Co.?” “Couldn’t take even Bank of England notes,” said the stranger; “I’m only an agent.
— from Cord and Creese by James De Mille

It's lucky [71] the explosion blew ore enough out to hold the timbers off the ground, or our work would be much more difficult."
— from The Iron Boys in the Mines; or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft by James R. Mears

Meanwhile, the bodies close together, and the eyenots or vacuoles melt together, the two nuclei become one and disappear, and in eighteen hours the entire body of "either has melted into other," and a motionless, and for a time irregular, sac is left.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various