In view of the manifold variety of requisites for making each sex fulfil its earthly mission, the standard to be adopted in measuring its relative position must be of a composite character; or, to borrow from economic language, it must be a multiple standard.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

Let no one believe that the German spirit has for ever lost its mythical home when it still understands so obviously the voices of the birds which tell of that home.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

As 't were with a percussion cap The trouble's climax capping; It seemed a party dried and grim Of mummies had come to visit him, Each getting off from every limb Its multitudinous wrapping; Scratchings sometimes the walls ran round, The merest penny-weights of sound; Sometimes 'twas only by the pound They carried on their dealing, A thumping 'neath the parlor floor, Thump-bump-thump-bumping o'er and o'er, As if the vegetables in store, (Quiet and orderly before,) Were all together pealing; You would have thought the thing was done
— from Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell

In February, 1844, she wrote the following extraordinary lines: "I must tell you that George Sand is only a pale reflection of Pierre Leroux, a fanatical disciple of the same ideal, but a disciple mute and fascinated when listening to his words, and quite prepared to throw all her own works into the fire, in order to write, talk, think, pray and act under his inspiration.
— from George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings by René Doumic

CANTO I. A frog dwelt once upon a time Far up within the northern clime, ’Twas pleasant sure, when Summer threw O’er wood and lake and mountain blue, {80} Her fairy mantle; then the frog, Exulting loud in many a bog, Sang siren songs in brake and bush, Such as would fairly put to blush, Or fill, good faith, with envious rage The modern artist of the stage;
— from Canadian Melodies and Poems by George E. (George Earle) Merkley

In the beginning, at Richmond, he wrote only at night, when his day's work was done; and for a time he actually ceased writing fiction entirely lest it might interfere with the practice of his profession.
— from Famous Authors (Men) by E. F. (Edward Francis) Harkins

No private family ever lived in more concord or unanimity than did "Our Mess."
— from Recollections of the War of 1812 by William Dunlop

The only similar material to be found elsewhere lies in memoirs, such as those of Henry Villard, 737 or in biographies like Oberholtzer’s Life of Jay Cooke 738 and Pearson’s An American Railroad Builder 739 which make use of private papers of men prominent in railroad finance.
— from Railroad Reorganization by Stuart Daggett