In both him and his companion, every gesture is so entirely easy, and free from the semblance of artificiality, that, were it not for the diminutiveness of their size, and the fact of their being passed from one spectator to another previous to their exhibition on the rope, it would be difficult to convince any assemblage of persons that these wooden automata were not living creatures.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Neut. quis quid , some one, any one (substantive) quî qua or quae quod , some, any (adjective), § 483 aliquis aliquid , some one, any one (substantive), § 487 aliquî aliqua aliquod , some, any (adjective), § 487 quîdam quaedam quoddam, quiddam , a certain, a certain one , § 485 quisquam quicquam or quidquam (no plural), any one (at all) (substantive), § 486 quisque quidque , each one, every one (substantive), § 484 quisque quaeque quodque , each, every (adjective), § 484 {Transcriber's Note: In the original text, the combined forms (masculine/feminine) were printed in the "masculine" column.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

So never deem, percase, That from a man and from the seed of horse, The beast of draft, can Centaurs be composed Or e'er exist alive, nor Scyllas be— The half-fish bodies girdled with mad dogs— Nor others of this sort, in whom we mark Members discordant each with each; for ne'er At one same time they reach their flower of age
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Suppose my notions of astronomy allowed me to believe that the sun, sinking into the sea, was extinguished every evening, and that what appeared the next morning was his younger brother, hatched in a sun-producing nest to be found in the Eastern regions.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Queen If something isn’t done about it in less than no time, I’ll have everybody executed, all round.
— from Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Alice Gerstenberg

It would be quite as significant to declare that government ought to be free, that taxes ought not to be excessive, etc., as that the liberty of the press ought not to be restrained.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

This close connection between purely external events and literary masterpieces is especially marked in a study of the Elizabethan Age.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

The curly-headed, delicate boy sat with shining eyes unnoticed in a corner, starting every now and then and muttering something to himself, and evidently experiencing a new and powerful emotion as he turned his curly head, with his thin neck exposed by his turn-down collar, toward the place where Pierre sat.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I forgot everything else, and without another thought of exhaustion, friends, or collections, I accepted the American government's offer.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

The compound tense formed by combining the present passive participle with the past tense of the auxiliary verb esti expresses an act or condition as being undergone by the subject of the verb at some time in the past .
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

When he was more himself and his brutish, sluggish intellect showed him the full extent of his crime, he had evidently experienced a twinge of anguish that made motion a necessity, and not daring to return to the interior of the peninsula, where he would have to face the body of his victim, had sought the bank of the stream, where he was now tramping to and fro with uneven, faltering steps.
— from The Downfall by Émile Zola

Oersted was eminent as a scholar and equally eminent as a man; lenient in his judgment of others, he was strict with regard to himself; simple in his ways and frugal in living, he was benevolent to others, being always ready to give a helping hand wherever needed.
— from Makers of Electricity by Brother Potamian

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— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1970 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

We were so absorbed in one another we were of no mortal use apart, and that charming arrangement would make everything easy all round, so we did it.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

In the preparation of his deliverances Mr. Bryan reads widely and extensively, exhausting all the available sources of information.
— from William Jennings Bryan: A Concise But Complete Story of His Life and Services by Harvey Ellsworth Newbranch

In order to appropriate the highest view of life, I think there is no need of visiting lectures: all that she requires is to read the gospel, and not to shut her eyes, ears, and, most of all, her heart.
— from What Shall We Do? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The king, equally energetic and prudent, having now made an engagement secure, proposed to give his army time for rest and refreshment; but the cry of the troops, officers, and men, was for an immediate attack.
— from The Life and Reign of Edward I. by Robert Benton Seeley

Every detail of life is carefully ordered to avoid waste and to secure efficiency, even at the cost of individual initiative.
— from Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel Peter Orth

To streamline the structure of the government, we have secured approval of 14 reorganization initiatives, improving the efficiency of the most important sectors of the government, including energy, education, and civil rights enforcement.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

" The narrative of Mr. Everts, of his thirty-seven days' sojourn in the wilderness (published in Scribner's Magazine for November, 1871, and in volume V. of the Montana Historical Society publications), furnishes a chapter in the history of human endurance, exposure, and escape, almost as incredible as it is painfully instructive and entertaining.
— from The Discovery of Yellowstone Park Journal of the Washburn Expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole Rivers in the Year 1870 by Nathaniel Pitt Langford