We hold death, poverty, and pain for our principal enemies; now, this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who does not know that others call it the only secure harbour from the storms and tempests of life, the sovereign good of nature, the sole support of liberty, and the common and prompt remedy of all evils?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

likewise; already Eisor, a. equal, similar, like Eisorawd, n. counterpart Eisori, v. to make similar Eisilled, n. offspring, issue Eiste, n. the act of sitting Eiste, v. to sit, to be seated Eistedd, n. a sitting, a sit: v. to sit; to be seated Eisteddfod, n. a sitting, a session Eisteddiad, n. a sitting, a seating Eisteddial, v. to sit often Eisteddig, a. sedentary, sitting Eisteddol, a. sitting, sedentary Eiswng, n. a sob; a sigh Eisyddynt, n. a tenement Eithaf, n. extremity, farthest; a. extreme, farthest Eithafed, n. an extremity Eithafig, a. extreme, ultimate Eithen, n. a prickle, or point Eithin, n. furze, whin, gorse: a. full of prickles Eithinen, n. a furze bush Eithinfyw, n. the savine Eithinog, a. full of furze Eithiw, a. full of prickles Eithr, a. except; besides Eithriad, n. an exception Etihraw, v. to except, to exclude Eithrawl, exceptive, exclusive El, n. intelligence, spirit Elach, n. a little sorry fellow Elaeth, n. spiritual being Elaig, n. a minstrel Elain, n. a hind, a fawn Elanedd, n. intestines Elawch, n. indulgence Elcys, n. ganzas, wild geese Elech, n. a slate, a flag Eleni, n. this year:
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

"Miss Vail—Helena," he said, and his voice was full of passionate earnestness now, "I cannot say these things well—only simply.
— from The Miracle Man by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

The detective branch of the City of London police, on the other hand, makes a speciality of the investigation of commercial frauds, a vast field of possible enterprise, not the less extensive for the fact that the area policed by the City force is but a single square mile.
— from A History of Police in England by W. L. Melville (William Lauriston Melville) Lee

Finally, bear in mind these two doctrines, tempering the one with the other: 1) that the public library is a great educational and moral power, to be wielded with a full sense of its great responsibilities, and of the corresponding danger of their neglect or perversion; 2) that the public library is not a business office, though it should be most business-like in every detail of its management; but is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.
— from A Library Primer by John Cotton Dana

He remembered, with a feeling of pain even now, the horrible sinking sensation he had experienced last week when for punishment he had been sent to bed without his tea.
— from Seven Little Australians by Ethel Sybil Turner

The mate is figuring our position even now.
— from The Landing of the Pilgrims by Henry Fisk Carlton

Even the splendid freedom of physical exercise no longer satisfies her.
— from The home: its work and influence by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Think how ashamed you'd feel—before a whole theatre full of people every night!
— from The Pot Boiler: A Comedy in Four Acts by Upton Sinclair

I felt that I was not qualified to be a soldier, at least a private one; far better be a drudge to the most ferocious of publishers, editing Newgate Lives, and writing in eighteenpenny Reviews—better to translate the Haik Esop, under the superintendence of ten Armenians, than be a private soldier in the English service; I did not decide rashly—I knew something of soldiering.
— from Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Borrow