Though the actual production, especially as regards the chief characters, who as a whole could not be regarded as belonging to the flower of Berlin opera, left me unmoved, and though the effect never reached a point that could be even distantly compared to that produced upon me by Schroder-Devrient, yet the exceptional precision, fire, and richly organised rendering of the whole was new to me.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

But in large families where it is impossible to manage such a wash as three clean napkins a day entail, napkin rings are probably necessary.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Qui officium illud ex concessione domini Edwardi nuper regis Angliæ patris nostri habuit....
— from The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by C. G. (Charles Greenstreet) Addison

It was intended also as a defense against the predatory hordes of the Shasu, [Bedouins, who dwelt as nomads in the desert adjacent to Egypt, now regarded as part of Asia.] who had made a circuit around the fortified works on the isthmus, and its indestructible walls contained an Egyptian garrison, who could easily defend it against a force greatly superior in numbers.
— from Joshua — Volume 2 by Georg Ebers

The Prussian envoy now returned, and presented to Napoleon his master's congratulations on the victory thus achieved.
— from The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

There are, however, but slight indications of its continuing in that gait long, for even now rents are perceivable, through which its nakedness is manifest.
— from The History of the Fifty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteers by David Lathrop

Here, also, the army rested for an entire night, ready and prepared for the advance upon the following morning into the sacred precincts ruled over by Montezuma.
— from Famous Discoverers and Explores of America Their Voyages, Battles, and Hardships in Traversing and Conquering the Unknown Territories of a New World by Charles H. L. (Charles Haven Ladd) Johnston

In his eyes, no revenge at present seemed worth so extravagant a price.
— from Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel by James Payn

It never ends, never repeats a passage.
— from The Tarn of Eternity by Frank Tymon

Potentiality is no existence, no reality; actual potentiality is a contradiction in terms.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams