There are men whom a merciful Providence has undoubtedly ordained to a single life, but who from wilfulness or through circumstances they could not cope with have flown in the face of its decrees.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

rētu f. (only in d. rēote) joy , B 2457.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Well, I said, and how does the change from oligarchy into democracy arise? Is it not on this wise?—The good at which such a State aims is to become as rich as possible, a desire which is insatiable?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

We live from hand to mouth, most of us, with a small family of immediate desires; we do little else than snatch a morsel to satisfy the hungry brood, rarely thinking of seed-corn or the next year's crop.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Sometimes they chanced upon other wolves, usually in pairs; but there was no friendliness of intercourse displayed on either side, no gladness at meeting, no desire to return to the pack-formation.
— from White Fang by Jack London

In his account of the foundation of it Dante does not agree with Virgil, attributing to a Greek Manto what his master attributes to an Italian one ( Æn. x. 199).
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

As much we may say of them that are troubled with their fortunes; or ill destinies foreseen: multos angit praecientia malorum : The foreknowledge of what shall come to pass, crucifies many men: foretold by astrologers, or wizards, iratum ob coelum , be it ill accident, or death itself: which often falls out by God's permission; quia daemonem timent (saith Chrysostom) Deus ideo permittit accidere .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Grose thinks FAGGED OUT is derived from this.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Strictly taken, the invention of the curve of Hippias substitutes for one insuperable difficulty another equally insuperable.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

They are acting under the compulsion of unavoidable necessity, for French officers in disguise have already violated Belgian neutrality by trying to reach Germany, via Belgium, in motor-cars.
— from What Germany Thinks Or, The War as Germans see it by Thomas F. A. Smith

Not for one instant did she intend to let Franklin see how intensely she resented being compelled to remain on the yacht or permit him to feel that he was winning.
— from Scandal: A Novel by Cosmo Hamilton

The Old Squire was still there, shouting and gesticulating, and Saxon was at his heels, and over the hedge two cows were looking at him; but the rooks and the starlings were far off in distant trees and fields.
— from Mary's Meadow, and Other Tales of Fields and Flowers by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

The original Celtic name for Devonshire, the name used by the Britons whom Caesar found here when he landed, was probably "Dyfnaint," for a Latinized form of it, "Dumnonia" or "Damnonia," was used by Diodorus Siculus when writing of the province of Devon and Cornwall in the third century A.D.
— from Lynton and Lynmouth: A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland by John Presland

On the part of Gus it was a feeling of intense dismay that gripped his anxious heart.
— from The Boy Scouts on the Roll of Honor by Robert Shaler

Next time it might foretell our immediate doom, and if it did I knew that I should believe.
— from Allan and the Holy Flower by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The brave Major left his fair companion, broke from the house, and over the garden fence, tearing down about twenty feet of it, dashed to his boat and was off.
— from A History of the Ninth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry by Marion Morrison

In its death agonies, yet possessing prodigious strength still, the ’gator flopped off into deeper water, diving.
— from The Motor Boat Club in Florida; or, Laying the Ghost of Alligator Swamp by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock