Here at all events we must reckon with the fact that dancing itself, like every form of rapid movement, involves a kind of intoxication of the whole nervous, muscular, and visceral system.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The legislator therefore, being unable to appeal to either force or reason, must have recourse to an authority of a different order capable of constraining without violence and persuading without convincing.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Here was a good, solidly built house, constructed of materials which it was scarcely possible to set fire to from the outside, well barricaded, and evidently full of resolute men quite determined to sell their lives dearly.
— from A Middy of the King: A Romance of the Old British Navy by Harry Collingwood

If there be cliffs at the top of the slope, as is often the case, very extensive falls of rock may take [Pg 174] place from it, the masses descending with such speed that they directly attain the stream.
— from Outlines of the Earth's History: A Popular Study in Physiography by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler

I have also a notion that any number of bundles of the driest legal chaff that ever was chopped would be cheaply expended for one really meritorious engraving.
— from Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens

But now it is come to that extreme folly, or rather madness, with some, that he that flatters them modestly or sparingly is thought to malign them.
— from Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems by Ben Jonson

"It is probable that one of them sailed with Jack when he was on the West Wind; but who the others were I don't know, and it isn't at all likely that I shall ever find out," replied Marcy.
— from Marcy the Blockade Runner by Harry Castlemon

Had you proceeded, I am sure the walk would have been too much for you; such excessive fatigue, often repeated, must injure the strongest constitution.
— from Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter

"And what is that over there?" inquired Durtal, perceiving, in a corner, an enormous fragment of rounded metal, like half a gigantic skull-cap.
— from Là-bas by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

The evening following our return Mrs Hudson gave a small party; and, recollecting the transaction of the former day, as I took my partner's hand in the dance, for by another accident Miss Hudson was the lady, I thought I would see whether I was mistaken or not; so I tried the telegraph again, and gave her fair hand a gentle but significant pressure this time.
— from The Cruise of the Midge (Vol. 2 of 2) by Michael Scott