Let them starve and grub in the earth for roots, rather than serve such a Moloch as this.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

" The baffled publisher's close-time having expired, or, at least, his heirs being satisfied, three novels appeared, long heralded: in 1862, "Les Misérables" (Ye Wretched), wherein the author figures as Marius and his father as the Bonapartist officer: in 1866, "Les Travailleurs de la Mer" (Toilers of the Sea), its scene among the Channel Islands; and, in 1868, "L'Homme Qui Rit" (The Man who Grins), unfortunately laid in a fanciful England evolved from recondite reading through foreign spectacles.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

What shalt thou exchange for rags?- robes, for tittles?- titles, for thyself? -me.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He drew up lists of the most incongruous things and was unhappy until he succeeded in establishing kinship between them all—kinship between love, poetry, earthquake, fire, rattlesnakes, rainbows, precious gems, monstrosities, sunsets, the roaring of lions, illuminating gas, cannibalism, beauty, murder, lovers, fulcrums, and tobacco.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

My orders from General Grant will not, as yet, justify me in embarking for Red River, though I am very anxious to move in that direction.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

± edlēanung f. recompense, remuneration, retribution , Gl .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

± ednīwung f. renewal, reparation, renovation , Æ, CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

eftforgifnes f. ‘ remissio ,’ ‘ reconciliatio ,’ NG, DR.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

eftlōcung f. ‘ respectus ,’ regard , DR 86 15 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

The harbour is scooped into an arch by the Eastern flood; reefs run out and foam with the salt spray; itself it lies concealed; turreted walls of rock let down their arms on either hand, and the temple retreats from the beach.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

"That gang aren't even good enough for routine raiding," Harkaman said.
— from Space Viking by H. Beam Piper

248 In Melanesia women are generally excluded from religious rites.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

Y. P. S. C. E., for Reading Room, Central Ch., New Orleans, La. 17.58 Plainville.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 49, No. 02, February, 1895 by Various

"A handsome large octavo volume, abundantly supplied with well-engraved woodcuts and lithographic plates; a sort of Encyclopædia for ready reference....
— from Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 by Various

It is eminently diaphoretic, diuretic, and tonic, and excellent for rheumatism, rheumatic gout, and scrofula.
— from The South of France—East Half by C. B. Black

She had not had this proof on that first night when she had snatched at the mantle of Gypsy Nan as the sole means of escape from Rough Rorke, of headquarters; she did not have it now—but she would have it, stake all and everything in life she had to have it, for it, in itself, literally meant everything and all—and Danglar would make a written confession, or else—or else—She smiled mirthlessly.
— from The White Moll by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

( Maid enters from right rear and advances. )
— from Theft: A Play In Four Acts by Jack London

The British Library is a pioneer in Europe for research relating to digital libraries.
— from From the Print Media to the Internet by Marie Lebert

What, shalt thou exchange for ragges, roabes: for tittles titles, for thy selfe mee.
— from Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare