"Mais, Monsieur?" "Mais, Mademoiselle, asseyez-vous, et ne bougez pas—entendez-vous?—jusqu'à ce qu'on vienne vous chercher, ou que je vous donne la permission." "Quel triste coin!" cried I, "et quelles laids tableaux!"
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

A virgin, on her bridalnight goes to bed full of fears and apprehensions, though she expects nothing but pleasure of the highest kind, and what she has long wished for.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

But all considerate men will be sensible that such a provision would either not be practiced upon or would be more liable to abuse than calculated to answer any good purpose.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

— N. correspondence, letter, epistle, note, billet, post card, missive, circular, favor, billet-doux; chit, chitty[obs3], letter card, picture post card; postal
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Just as to be always talking about transcendental points of reference, primordial reality, and the self to which everything appears, though at first it might pass for spiritual insight, is in the end nothing but pedantry and impotence, so to be always harping on nationality is to convert what should be a recognition of natural conditions into a ridiculous pride in one's own oddities.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

ANT: Stifle, destroy, extinguish, neutralize, blight, prevent.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

In 1709 it obtained, along with eight other libraries, the right to demand a copy of every new book published in Britain, which right it still possesses.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

It is too easy a thing to inculcate liberality on him who has as much as he will to practise it with at the expense of others; and, the estimate not being proportioned to the measure of the gift but to the measure of the means of him who gives it, it comes to nothing in so mighty hands; they find themselves prodigal before they can be reputed liberal.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Before Harfleur Enter NYM, BARDOLPH, PISTOL, and BOY BARDOLPH.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

One experiences many things in the dream, and believes in them, while one really has experienced nothing but perhaps the one disturbing stimulus.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Then said Panurge: 'Sennor, de tanto hablar yo soy cansado, porque yo suplico a vuestra reverentia que mire a los preceptos evangelicos, para que ellos movan vuestra reverentia a lo que es de conscientia; y si ellos non bastaren, para mouer vuestra reverentia a piedad, yo suplico que mire a la piedad natural, la qual yo creo que le movera como es de razon: y con esso non digo mas.'
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by François Rabelais

“Whereas,” he would continue, “here I live free of duns and debt: the countesses may go hang: I look for no more patrons: I expect no beggarly preferment; I laugh at my ease, while my creditors bark but cannot bite.”
— from The Chaplain of the Fleet by James Rice

To escape the power of the sun they observed this festival in the hall of the house, which was deliciously cool even now, being paved with stone, and shaded by a noble and fragrant walnut-tree.
— from Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

The promise must be exacted; nothing besides, promise.—You see, Tony, you cannot be less than Tony to me now, he addressed the gentle phantom of her.
— from Diana of the Crossways — Complete by George Meredith

And to anyone who saw these women, as I did, in their ultimate misery and degradation, they could excite nothing but pity.
— from A Man's World by Albert Edwards

He has to build a small shelter by a river and live there; he may not associate with his wife or sweetheart, and he may eat nothing but porridge, beef, and goat’s flesh.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

In all this no manorial element need be present, and when the manorial element is absent there is not necessarily any uniformity or single succession in the holdings.
— from Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law Being an Essay Supplemental to (1) 'The English Village Community', (2) 'The Tribal System in Wales' by Frederic Seebohm

This excellent natural breakwater perfectly shelters the shipping from the "calemas," or perilous breakers on the seaward side, and the surface is dotted with huts and groves, gardens and palm orchards.
— from Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

ou elle chome, il ou elle ne besongne pas: quand il ou elle besongne, il ou she is nat ydell.
— from An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés

Ditto (April 1829.) ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE FIRST VOLUME (Not included in this etext) Native Burial Place near Budda Vice Admiral Arthur Phillip Cataract of the Macquarie A Selenite Chrystallized Sulphate of Lime PRELIMINARY CHAPTER Purpose of this Chapter—Name of Australia—Impressions of its early Visitors—Character of the Australian rivers—Author's first view of Port Jackson—Extent of the Colony of New South Wales—its rapid advances in prosperity—Erroneous impressions—Commercial importance of Sydney—Growth of fine wool—Mr. M'Arthur's meritorious exertions—Whale-fishery—Other exports—Geographical features—Causes of the large proportion of bad soil—Connection between the geology and vegetation—Geological features—Character of the soil connected with the geological formation—County of Cumberland—Country westward of the Blue Mountains—Disadvantages of the remote settlers—Character of the Eastern coast—Rich tracts in the interior—Periodical droughts—The seasons apparently affected by the interior marshes—Temperature—Fruits—Emigrants: Causes of their success or failure—Moral disadvantages—System of emigration recommended—Hints to emigrants—Progress of inland discovery—Expeditions across the Blue Mountains—Discoveries of Mr. Evans, Mr. Oxley, and others—Conjectures respecting the interior.
— from Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume I by Charles Sturt