We may not be able to give the proposed meeting "frequent editorial notice;" still the probabilities are that we shall allude to it if we live and do well, and we shan't charge Susan a cent 272 for our services.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

It required five hours to make one of these crossings without a single halt, and the other consumed the entire night, so that we were just leaving the confines of the high-walled fields when the sun broke out upon us.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Do, do: he’ll but break a comparison or two on me; which, peradventure not marked or not laughed at, strikes him into melancholy; and then there’s a partridge wing saved, for the fool will eat no supper that night.
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

Through him the commonplace individual forced his way from the spectators' benches to the stage itself; the mirror in which formerly only great and bold traits found expression now showed the painful exactness that conscientiously reproduces even the abortive lines of nature.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

These are [Pg 244] the people that plunge with passionate joy into the battle in which they expect to receive quite as many wounds as they deal; indeed, experience not seldom testifies that they are ready deliberately, first to kill the man who thwarts their purposes, and then themselves, in order to escape the penalty of the law.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

I am of Crantor’s opinion, that we are neither obstinately and deafly to oppose evils, nor succumb to them from want of courage; but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Several soldiers hearing some Representatives say that they had eaten nothing since the morning, offered them their ration bread.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

This occasioned, that notwithstanding the infinite number of people which died and were sick, almost all together, yet they were always cleared away and carried off every night, so that it was never to be said of London that the living were not able to bury the dead.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

They look upon all those whom this state of society has made their equals as oppressors, whose destiny can excite no sympathy; they have lost sight of their former equals, and feel no longer bound by a common interest to their fate: each of them, standing aloof, thinks that he is reduced to care for himself alone.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

[217] had telegraphed to tell her what was happening and she had wired back that her mother was well enough now so that she could carry out the plans that Adair MacKenzie had made with such enjoyment, for he did enjoy doing things for other people.
— from Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border by Annie Roe Carr

" She had again addressed herself to the shelves, but her eyes now swept them inattentively, and he saw that she was preoccupied with a new idea.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

I wad be awfu’ prood o’ every new school that’s in Gleska if I didna ken that I had to pye a polis tax for’t by-and-bye as weel as school tax.”
— from Erchie, My Droll Friend by Neil Munro

They are not stories really, I am afraid—not sketches even, nor studies; they are, I think, just what I have called them—vignettes.
— from Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews

V.ii.40 (250,6) who are in this/Reliev'd, but not betray'd] [W: Bereav'd, but] I do not think the emendation necessary, since the sense is not made better by it, and the abruptness in Cleopatra's answer is more forcible in the old reading.
— from Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Samuel Johnson

"We had eaten nothing since the day before, and the whole day long we remained hidden in a barn, huddled close together, so as not to feel the cold so much; we did not venture to speak or even move, and we slept by fits and starts, like you sleep when you are worn out with fatigue.
— from A Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. I by Guy de Maupassant

They also intensified their efforts to entangle America, irretrievably, in political and economic union with European nations so that there would never again be any possibility of the United States staying out of the endless wars and turmoil of the old world.
— from The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot

His excitement was such that he knew he could neither eat nor sleep till the questions in his heart were answered.
— from The Side Of The Angels: A Novel by Basil King

And as it is the earnest wish of their Brethren here, that the true state and ground of the present differences and controversies in England may be more and more cleared to be concerning [pg 196] Religion, and that both Houses may uncessantly prosecute that good Work first and above all other matters, giving no sleep to their eyes, nor slumber to their eye-lids, until they finde out a place for the Lord, an habitation for the mighty GOD of Jacob , whose favour alone can make their mountain strong, and whose presence in his own ordinances shall be their glory in the midst of them:
— from The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly