Err, fall, sin if you will, but be upright.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

372 Now, movements like these come to an end fairly soon, but those resulting from internal irritants ( e.g. , in the administration of purgative drugs or in cholera) become much stronger and more lasting; they persist as long as the condition of things 373 about the mouths of the veins continues, that is, so long as Pg 303 Greek text these continue to attract what is adjacent.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

f. eagerness for sight-seeing , LL (wæfereorn-).
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Our reasonings have assumed that the 'integration' of a thousand psychic units must be either just the units over again, simply rebaptized, or else something real, but then other than and additional to those units; that if a certain existing fact is that of a thousand feelings, it cannot at the same time be that of one feeling; for the essence of feeling is to be felt, and as a psychic existent feels , so it must be .
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

encrespar r roughen, rise (sea). encrucijada f street-corner.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

We lay entranced for some time, until the doctor, who, during our last bout, had purified himself, told us we must now get up.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Mr and Mrs Musgrove, either from seeing little, or from an entire confidence in the discretion of both their daughters, and of all the young men who came near them, seemed to leave everything to take its chance.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

To Greek subtlety he joins Hebrew fervour and monkish intolerance; he has a Latin amplitude and (it must be confessed) coarseness of feeling; but above all he is the illumined, enraptured, forgiven saint.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Childhood begins life with these notions, and knighthood also; but, as life grows larger and its relations many-sided, the early faith seeks sanction from higher authority and more rational sources for its own justification, satisfaction and development.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

I myself received a warning to this effect from some Labu Malays when I saw one of these trees felled.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

One student after another has discussed the date of this exquisite figure, so purely French in essence, whose simplicity is as ample and unaffected as the best XIII-century art.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

In the old days one usually fired point blank just as one might plug at a haystack, and the extreme range was not more than a mile and a half; but now that every fighting ship carries torpedo tubes we must keep out a very long way.
— from The Silent Watchers England's Navy during the Great War: What It Is, and What We Owe to It by Bennet Copplestone

We have often watched them, and they are beautiful to contemplate particularly at night, and in Kingstown Harbour, near Dublin, many exceedingly fine specimens have been obtained.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

e filmy silken veil usually worn by the women of Nikosia; but through the snowy folds which concealed the features, there came the gleam of the fantastic jewelled garb, and the lines of the pose—proudly defiant—were plainly discernible—it could be none other than the young and beautiful and high-born Dama Ecciva de Montferrat.
— from The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.

Ordinarily, and with few exceptions, there are only two employments for such women that do not involve loss of social position, viz., school-teaching and boarding.
— from Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator, with Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage by Catharine Esther Beecher

So he went over and joined the Anglo-American, and began to talk with him in an easy, friendly sort of way.
— from Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls by Josephine Chase

Snow was on the ground; every footstep showed like a blot of ink on white paper.
— from The Raft by Coningsby Dawson

There are instances of New England ships taking rum to Africa, where it was exchanged for slaves; these slaves were then transported to the West Indies, to be bartered for sugar and molasses, which was carried home and converted into rum.
— from The Colonies, 1492-1750 by Reuben Gold Thwaites