This, however, has now become a forbidden path, for the ape stands at its entrance, and likewise other fearsome animals, showing their teeth in a knowing fashion, as if to say, No further this way!
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

That they are permanent, may bee gathered from the words of our Saviour himselfe, (Mat. 25.41.) where he saith, it shall be said to the wicked in the last day, "Go ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels:" which place is manifest for the permanence of Evill Angels, (unlesse wee might think the name of Devill and his Angels may be understood of the Churches Adversaries and their Ministers;)
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

But what distinguishes the false philosopher from the true is this: the perplexity of the latter arises from the contemplation of the world itself, while that of the former results from some book, some system of philosophy which is before him.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge 45 the fatherless, plead for the widow.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

an Understanding and a Will: we do not even pretend to distinguish objectively the causality thought in this Being, as regards what is for us final purpose, from the causality thought in it as regards nature (and its purposive determinations in general).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

Then he took out four big five-franc pieces from the cash drawer, and the two friends pocketed the money.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

37 into two equal squares by a horizontal cut midway and you will see the four pieces forming the two squares.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

743 Listen to this voice from the abyss of Russia: We very much ask for prayer for the Church of Russia; it is passing through great tribulation and it is a question whether spiritual or earthly power will triumph.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Once the moon rose; they did not fail to make fine phrases, finding the orb melancholy and full of poetry.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

On this last night of his residence among them, his purse was empty, and inclement as was the weather, he wore, on his road home, but one thin coat, which was but a feeble protection from the freezing air, which pierced to his skin, though every button was put to its proper use.
— from Aaron the Jew: A Novel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

The following passage from the original preface, which is only to be found in the old editions, alludes to the great success that attended this story:—
— from Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens

She was favourably placed for the keeping of such Resolves; having moved out of Ashford , to a remote Country-farm, too far from a Place of Worship for regular Attendance, wherefore she had set a-foot a little Church within her House, that was served, under the Rose, by a deprived Minister harbouring in the Neighbourhood.
— from The Colloquies of Edward Osborne, Citizen and Clothworker of London by Anne Manning

The playlet revolved around the question of getting situations as a butler and a footman in a fashionable residence, and the lines were humorous in the extreme, and both Dave and Gus got about all the fun possible from them.
— from Dave Porter and His Classmates; Or, For the Honor of Oak Hall by Edward Stratemeyer

No category definition used by the blocking programs is identical to the legal definitions of obscenity, child pornography, or material harmful to minors, and, at all events, filtering programs fail to block access to a substantial amount of content on the Internet that falls into the categories defined by CIPA.
— from Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling by United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

The strange peculiarity of the omnivorous ravages of the white ants is that they shrink from the light, in all their expeditions for providing food they construct a covered pathway of moistened clay, and their galleries above ground extend to an incredible distance from the central nest.
— from Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

For example, the rule forbidding the presentation to the jury of anything that was said by the victim of a homicide, even to witnesses surrounding the death-bed, unless the victim in express terms makes known his own belief that he cannot live, and that he has abandoned all hope or expectation of recovery before he tells the tale of the manner in which he was slain, or the causes that led up to it, has allowed many a guilty prisoner, if not to escape entirely, at least to avoid the full penalty for the crime he had undoubtedly committed.
— from The Art of Cross-Examination With the Cross-Examinations of Important Witnesses in Some Celebrated Cases by Francis L. (Francis Lewis) Wellman

A letter from Paul Frankston, though kind and hearty in tone, was not reassuring.
— from A Colonial Reformer, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Rolf Boldrewood