I meant, while in a sort continuing the theme of my first chants, to shift the slides, and exhibit the problem and paradox of the same ardent and fully appointed personality entering the sphere of the resistless gravitation of spiritual law, and with cheerful face estimating death, not at all as the cessation, but as somehow what I feel it must be, the entrance upon by far the greatest part of existence, and something that life is at least as much for, as it is for itself.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

"But," said Conseil, who perpetually returned to the didactic side of things, "is this pearl fishing ever dangerous?" "No," I replied quickly, "especially if one takes certain precautions."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

I heard, these years, well render'd, all the Italian and other operas in vogue, "Sonnambula," "the Puritans," "Der Freischutz," "Huguenots," "Fille d'Regiment," "Faust," "Etoile du Nord," "Poliuto," and others.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

But daily observation can show us how frequently the feelings between parents and their grown children fail to come up to the ideal established by society, how much enmity exists and would find expression did not accumulations of piety and of tender impulse hold them back.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The column bore this inscription— LOUIS LE GRAND, ROY DE FRANCE ET DE NAVARRE, REGNE; LE NEUVIEME AVRIL, 1682.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

I would willingly excuse myself from a further explanation, did not the lesson this example conveys (which points out an evil as frequent as it is pernicious) forbid my silence.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have seen a detailed soldier, who got only his monthly pay of eight dollars a month, and twenty cents a day for extra duty, nailing on weather-boards and shingles, alongside a citizen who was paid sixteen dollars a day.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

But in fact Eusebius does not say, either that St Mark went with St Peter to Rome, or that he had preached in Alexandria before this.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Yet, if you will, smile at the warmth of my expressions, while I find every day new causes for repeating them.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Perhaps you do," said the emperor; "for experience does not always mean wisdom.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

362 State copyright owner in work of salaried law reporter, 98 1852 Pulte v. Derby U. S. C. C. J. McLean, 5 McLean, 328 Publishing contract for "edition," does not prohibit successive printings, 446 1853 Customs consolidation act 16 & 17 Vict.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

Like a fawn It fled with tempest breathing hard at heel of flight; And having known full East, did not disdain To sit in shadow and oblivious cold, Save what all loss doth of its loss retain, And who hath held hath somewhat that he still must hold.
— from New Poems by Francis Thompson

—Although the signs of it, as will appear in the sequel, may be detected long before the leaves put out in the spring, yet its full effects do not begin to appear until May, or if the spring be backward, until June.
— from Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming by Henry Ward Beecher

[he pulls out a piece of paper and reads], “Charles dix, par la grace de Dieu, roi de France et de Navarre.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

If there was evil in a man he passed it serenely as a sheep passes by a butcher, for evil did not affect him.
— from The Demi-gods by James Stephens

Neither advantage is conclusive; neither, indeed, is, strictly speaking, relevant; for Englishmen do not make a principle of accentuating the root rather than the prefix or suffix, else we should say "inund-ation," "resonant," "admir-able;" and the Americans do not make a principle of following the Latin emphasis, else they would say "ora-tor" and "gratui-tous," and the recognised pronunciation of "theatre" would be "theayter."
— from America To-day, Observations and Reflections by William Archer

Corn-starch, for example, does not dissolve in cold water.
— from School and Home Cooking by Carlotta C. (Carlotta Cherryholmes) Greer

Inflation rate (consumer prices): NA% Unemployment rate: NEGL% Budget: revenues $424 million; expenditures $376 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1991) Exports: $NA; full customs integration with France, which collects and rebates Monacan trade duties; also participates in EC market system through customs union with France Imports: $NA; full customs integration with France, which collects and rebates Monacan trade duties; also participates in EC market system through customs union with France External debt: $NA Industrial production: growth rate NA% Electricity: 10,000 kW standby capacity (1992); power imported from France Agriculture:
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency