The difficulty of assignations, the danger of surprise, the shame of the morning, “Et languor, et silentium, Et latere petitus imo Spiritus:” [“And languor, and silence, and sighs, coming from the innermost heart.”—Hor., Epod., xi. 9.] these are what give the piquancy to the sauce.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

“Well, Daisy Miller,” said the elder lady, presently, “I shouldn’t think you’d want to talk against your own brother!”
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

In the spring and early summer, between Easter and St. John’s Day (the summer solstice), every Lettish peasant is said to devote his leisure hours to swinging diligently; for the higher he rises in the air the higher will his flax grow that season.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

"[1] But in the end life proves itself stronger than iron bands.
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson

I'm going to make you censor every last package I send.
— from Jane Allen, Right Guard by Edith Bancroft

Worse than this, there is no doubt that a considerable amount of evil living prevailed in some of the monasteries.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

Each little property is surrounded by a stone wall of some height; the gate-way through this, giving entrance to the yard, is surmounted by a pretty little double-pitched roofing of thatch.
— from In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr

According to English law, prostitution is set down as a form of vagrancy, and the number of persons convicted of this offence is to be found included in the statistics of vagrancy.
— from Crime and Its Causes by William Douglas Morrison

Every little pleasure is somehow or other dashed to the ground.
— from The Honorable Miss: A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town by L. T. Meade

In the case of Mirabilis the pollen grains are extraordinarily large, and the ovarium contains only a single ovule; and these circumstances led Naudin 15 to make the following experiments: a flower was fertilised by three grains and succeeded perfectly; twelve flowers were fertilised by two grains, and seventeen flowers by a single grain, and of these one flower alone in each lot perfected its seed: and it deserves especial notice that the plants produced by these two seeds never attained their proper dimensions, and bore flowers of remarkably small size.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

It is an entertaining little production, in spite of the above critic, having rather effective incidents and situations, and easy, if not brilliant, dialogue.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

A similar engine , less powerful, is shown opposite this page.
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles