How can one possibly place in the hands of children and women, a book that contains those vile words: "to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband ...
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

ANT: Soft, fluid, liquid, elastic, brittle, penetrable, easy, mild, lenient, tender, ductile, uninvolved, simple, intelligible, perspicuous.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The first Lister edition does not contain these Variæ, nor does Lister have the Variantes ex Blasii Lanciloti.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

If only one had time to look at these flowers long enough, time to get over the sense of novelty and strangeness, time to know them!
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

When he came back to Kovrin, his face looked exhausted and mortified.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

One thing, however, must be allowed for the honour of Barton, he never breaks out into illiberal abuse, far less endeavours, by infamous calumnies, to blast the moral character of any individual on the other side.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Hope was over, entirely over; and when Jane could attend to the rest of the letter, she found little, except the professed affection of the writer, that could give her any comfort.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Big, tall, and fair, large eyes expressed her saving grace, an unparalleled frankness that seemed to sterilize her flirtations and rob them of impropriety.
— from The Settler by Herman Whitaker

We came up the river with feelings far less exultant and confident than those experienced in our downward trip.
— from Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

We have heard of a mother who for long empty years has nightly set a candle in her cottage window to guide her wandering boy back to her heart; and God has bade us think more loftily of the unchangeableness of His love than that of a woman who may forget, that she should not have compassion upon the son of her womb.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St. Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren

But he enters by a modern gate to a modern square, and pays his modern coin to a whiskered officer of customs; and in the place of a venerable Belisarius begging an obolus in classic Latin, he is 371 beset by a troop of lusty and filthy lazzaroni entreating for
— from Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Nathaniel Parker Willis

In fairest light each borrow'd grace; From him I'll learn to write; Copy his clear familiar style, And by the roughness of his file Grow, like himself, polite .'
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell

Executive Council appointed by the governor from among the elected members of the House of Assembly elections: none; the monarch is hereditary; governor appointed by the monarch; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or the leader of the majority coalition is usually appointed chief minister by the governor Antigua and Barbuda chief of state:
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

And as punishment does not always follow in this life, nothing less than a recognition of Divine Law will suffice; in other words, there must be intuitions of God, Law, Obligation, Punishment, and a Future Life: every one of which may be, and is, deemed to be innate.
— from Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Alexander Bain

352 ix LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Wilbur Wright Frontispiece FACING PAGE The First Wright Aeroplane 4 The First Wright Glider 5 The Second Wright Glider 5 A Long Glide 5 Motor of the Wright Biplane 12 A 16-Cylinder, 100-Horsepower Antoinette Motor 12 An 8-Cylinder, 50-Horsepower Curtiss Motor 12 Standard Gnome Aeroplane Motor 13 A 14-Cylinder, 100-Horsepower Gnome Motor 13 Testing a Gnome Motor on a Gun Carriage 13 Model Aeroplane Fliers 16 A Modern College Man's Glider 17 Otto Lilienthal Making a Flight in His Glider 17 The Chanute Type Glider 32 The Herring Glider 32 An Early Helicopter 32 Prof. Samuel Pierpont Langley 33 Sir Hiram Maxim 33 Octave Chanute 33 Langley's Steam Model 36 The Maxim Aeroplane 36 x Medals Won by the Wright Brothers 37 The First Santos-Dumont Aeroplane 44 The Cross-Channel Type Blériot Monoplane 44 A Voisin Biplane 44 Glenn Curtiss About to Make a Flight 45 Henri Farman Starting Aloft with Two Passengers 45 Louis Blériot 45 Glenn Curtiss Making a Flight in the June Bug 52 Orville Wright Making a Flight at Fort Myer 52 The First Letter Ever Written Aboard an Aeroplane in Flight 53 The Goddess of Liberty 60 First Actual War Expedition of an Aeroplane 61 War Manœuvres 61 Harry N. Atwood Arriving at Chicago 64 Finish of Atwood's St. Louis to New York Flight 64 Starting with the Aeroplane Mail 65 Chavez on His Fatal Flight Across the Alps 80 The Late Calbraith P. Rodgers, Trans-Continental Flier 81 The World's Longest Glide 96 The End of a Glide 96 Landing on a Warship 97 Boarding a Battleship 97 The Flying Boat
— from The Boy's Book of New Inventions by Harry E. (Harry Edward) Maule