The following are some of the house-names of families living in Nellore, Sriharikota, Tada, and Kāmbakam:— ( a ) Manchi Yānādis— Bandi, cart.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The will now turns away [pg 490] from life; it now shudders at the pleasures in which it recognises the assertion of life.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The Casual Hostess The most casual hostess in the world is the fashionable leader in Newport, she who should by the rules of good society be the most punctilious, since no place in America, or Europe, is more conspicuously representative of luxury and fashion.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

If it were only a question of the partner of her youth, her choice would soon be made; but a master for life is not so easily chosen; and since the two cannot be separated, people must often wait and sacrifice their youth before they find the man with whom they could spend their life.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

He remembers the old addresses of all his New York friends, living in numbered streets, addresses which they themselves have long since moved away from and forgotten.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

But the feudal law is not supposed to have become the common law of England till after the Conquest.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

“A less feminine lot I never saw.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

He is married, and settled down for life in New South Wales; and the rest—John, Richard, George, are all gone—all!”
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

To the house of darkness, the dwelling of the god Irkalla, To the house out of which there is no exit, To the road from which there is no return, To the house from whose entrance the light is taken, The place where dust is their nourishment, and mud their food; Light is never seen, in darkness they dwell. ”
— from Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments A Sketch of the Most Striking Confirmations of the Bible, From Recent Discoveries in Egypt, Palestine, Assyria, Babylonia, Asia Minor by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

Feel like I needed someone to lend me a biff on the coco, sir, to make sure as I aren't a dreamin'—it's so wot a cove fancies 'Eaven to be like, sir."
— from Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Thomas W. Hanshew

He soon realized that his fight for life was well-nigh hopeless, but he struggled as men will when death stares them in the face, for life is never sweeter than when it seems to be slipping from our grasp.
— from The Ocean Wireless Boys and the Lost Liner by John Henry Goldfrap

Hearing the article of his faith defamed by its creator produced a negative feedback loop in Neel so strong his hands vibrated in tune with it.
— from The K-Factor by Harry Harrison

Who shall say that God does not order, and that heroism does not exist; and that faithful love is not still rewarded."
— from Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio by A. G. (Albert Gallatin) Riddle

M. Gillenormand would not listen to any explanation, that for the purpose of making lint fine linen is not so good as coarse, or new so good as worn.
— from Les Misérables, v. 5/5: Jean Valjean by Victor Hugo

The fermented liquor is next submitted to distillation, and the alcohol collected.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

[180] He was at New York in 1783, and was one of the petitioners for lands in Nova Scotia.
— from The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution by James Henry Stark