people don’t marry from love, but in order to do one’s duty.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Note 1301 ( return ) [ That is, the poor man's fare, like 'bread and cheese'.]
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

You are not, adorable creature, my first love, but you shall be the last.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[“We do not study for life, but only for the school.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I have scrubbed and washed both coarse and fine linen, but I have not been able to make myself better off; and it was God's will.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

In later times, the principle may have been extended from loss by theft to loss by destruction.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The righteous sovereign, who should be Lord paramount from sea to sea, High-minded, born to lofty fate, Like Brahmá's self supremely great; With Lakshmaṇ by his side, and her, Fair Sítá, for his minister.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

They stood silent waiting to see what he would say, and he, fixing his eyes on the fair Dorothea, addressed her with great gravity and composure: “I am informed, fair lady, by my squire here that your greatness has been annihilated and your being abolished, since, from a queen and lady of high degree as you used to be, you have been turned into a private maiden.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He was pale and his face lined, but he had recovered greatly since that day when she had seen him suffering from the effects of the poison.
— from In the Roar of the Sea by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

And then the Mediterranean would be truly a French lake , by means of which we should share the commerce of India with our sister Russia.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830 by Alexandre Dumas

The Chapel of St. John’s-square, Clerkenwell, is built of Brick and Bath Stone; 70 feet long by 60 feet wide; will accommodate 1,300 persons; has a school-room, &c., and cost £4,000.
— from Paddington: Past and Present by William Robins

At the time of which I write, when the first numbers of the "Salmagundi Papers" were startling North River aristocrats, fields lay beyond the new St. John's Church, and Canal Street was looked upon by the sagacious as the probable Mecca for retail commerce.
— from Through the Gates of Old Romance by Weymer Jay Mills

It is, to-day, in the best of order, stitching fine linen bosoms nicely.
— from Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 36, December 3, 1870 by Various

1,128.—Hydrogen gas generator for lead burning.
— from Hawkins Electrical Guide v. 04 (of 10) Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity and its applications by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

Mr. Grimbal’s writ you two straight, fair letters ’bout this job, so he’ve explained to me, an’ you never so much as answered neither; so, seem’ this here’s a right Christian cross, ban’t decent it should bide head down’ards for all time.
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

His constant and burning desire, now, was to learn to read, that he might peruse the word of the Great Spirit, and regulate his future life by its wisdom and tenets.
— from Oak Openings by James Fenimore Cooper

Christie thought she was listening to the report of a fine lecture; but her ear only caught the words, for her mind wandered away into a region of its own, and lived there till her task was done.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott