Youth is the season for love in both sexes; but in those days of thoughtless enjoyment, provision should be made for the more important years of life, when reflection takes place of sensation.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Destruction of the Cotton Crop in 1845—Demand for Laborers in St. Mary's Parish—Sent thither in a Drove—The Order of the March—The Grand Coteau—Hired to Judge Turner on Bayou Salle—Appointed Driver in his Sugar House—Sunday Services—Slave Furniture; how obtained—The Party at Yarney's, in Centreville—Good Fortune—The Captain of the Steamer—His Refusal to Secrete me—Return to Bayou Bœuf—Sight of Tibeats—Patsey's Sorrows—Tumult and Contention—Hunting the Coon and Opossum—The Cunning of the latter—The Lean Condition of the Slave—Description of the Fish Trap—The Murder of the Man from Natchez—Epps Challenged by Marshall—The Influence of Slavery—The Love of Freedom, 191 CHAPTER XV.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

The position is stronger now than formerly, Cherbourg presenting a good Channel port which France lacked in the old wars.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

[pg 397] So much with regard to the acquired character , which, indeed, is not of so much importance for ethics proper as for life in the world.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The Serapeum at Alexandria, which contained the famous library, is described by Ammianus , xxii.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

At first Levin, in answer to Kitty’s question how he could have seen her last year in the carriage, told her how he had been coming home from the mowing along the highroad and had met her.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I had brought some money from Lyons; I augmented this stock by the sale of my books, and in the course of a fortnight my resolution was both formed and executed: in short, full of the magnificent ideas it had inspired, and which were common to me on every occasion, I departed from Savoy with my new system of music, as I had formerly done from Turin with my heron-fountain.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I can ruin you for life if I choose to open my lips."
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

A piece of fine linen is wrapped round the head.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

A young man from a high school near here, who made a specialty of mathematics and pimples, and who could readily tell how long a shadow a nine-pound ground-hog would cast at 2 o'clock and 37 minutes p. m., on ground-hog day, if sunny, at the town of Fungus, Dak., provided latitude and longitude and an irregular mass of red chalk be given to him, was secured to jerk a few logarithms in the interests of trade.
— from Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Bill Nye

Furca : a fork: the anal appendage used for leaping in Thysanura; see furcula: the forked ental processes of the sternum.
— from Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John Bernhard Smith

An attempt was made to turn the diligence, but failed, leaving it standing plump against a high bank of mud.
— from The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor

Tieck, Ludwig , German poet, born in Berlin; was one of the founders of the Romantic school in Germany, was a friend of the Schlegels and Novalis; wrote novels and popular tales and dramas; his tales, in particular, are described by Carlyle as "teeming with wondrous shapes full of meaning; true modern denizens of old fairyland ... shows a gay southern fancy living in union with a northern heart;... in the province of popular traditions reigns without a rival" (1773-1853).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

All great writers proceed from a school, and there does exist now undeniably a school of Irish literature which differs from Miss Edgeworth in being strongly tinged with the element of Celtic romance, from Carleton in possessing an admirable standard of style, and from Lever in aiming at a sincere and vital portraiture of Irish life.
— from Irish Books and Irish People by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

[241] 'I had no sooner locked the tower-door behind us than over goes Sebastian full length in the dark.
— from Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling

It does not differ much from them in appearance, but it falls low in mechanical tests.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

I must have been there near an hour, swappin' never a word with anybody, and gettin' lonesomer by the minute, when in from the harbor dashes a long, low, dark-colored boat and comes rushin' at the float like it meant to make a hydroplane jump.
— from On With Torchy by Sewell Ford

In reference to the connection between the duchess and the ropedancer, Mr. Pope introduced the following lines into his "Sober Advice from Horace:" "What push'd poor E—s on th' imperial whore?
— from The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Volume 03 by Hamilton, Anthony, Count

I would tell him everything, and he should decide what I ought to do; his decision should be law to me; I would submit to it humbly, and obediently, although it might be that I was never to see again any of those whom I loved, and spend my future life in loneliness and penance.
— from Ellen Middleton—A Tale by Georgiana Fullerton