‘It’s the first position in dancing.’
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

[999] ———inque ferinas Possumus ire domus, pecudumque in corpora condi.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

There was a sharp cry—and the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet, upon which, instantly afterwards, fell prostrate in death the Prince Prospero.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

“In the first place, I did not ask him to give you any message; and secondly, I never tell lies.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

[353] assigns to this operation of sympathy,—the echo (as it were) of each agent’s passion in the breast of unconcerned spectators,—the first place in determining our approval and disapproval of actions [354] ; sympathy with the effect of conduct on others he treats as a merely secondary factor, correcting and qualifying the former.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

aussi rester impliqué d'une manière ou d'une autre dans la mise à disposition gratuite pour tous de livres sur l'internet, que ceci fasse partie intégrante de mon activité professionnelle ou que ceci soit une activité bénévole menée sur mon temps libre.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

a peut-être une forme plus insidieuse de plagiat, celle de l'appropriation sans mention d'origine d'idées, de concepts, de formules, etc.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

In the first place I drew up a programme, for which the book of words for the chorus—always ordered according to custom—furnished me with a good pretext.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Every wise woman buildeth her house, but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
— 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.

I felt perplexed: I didn’t know whether it were not a proper opportunity to offer a bit of admonition.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

And upon these four points I desire briefly to touch now.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

Yet French prose is distinctly better than English; and French verse, above all while Hugo lives, it will not do to place upon one side.
— from Essays in the Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson

These instances may afford proof that the federal power is declining, as the author contends, but they do not prove any actual interpretation of the constitution.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

In all the other mammals a frontal partition is developed in the cloaca (in the human embryo about the beginning of the third month), and this divides it into two cavities.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Haeckel

"Transient rumours," "false perception," "imposture," "doubtful," and "exaggeration"—there is a door open to all these things in the slow and gradual putting together of the collection of legends now known as "the Gospels."
— from Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Besant

The foregoing purposes in different forms are the only ones to which we have had the opportunity of witnessing the application of these devices.
— from Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri Edited with Notes and Biographical Sketch by Edwin Thompson Denig

Sprawling there with his hands in his pockets, he remarked with freezing politeness, "I don't say much, Stanistreet, but I think a damned deal."
— from The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) by May Sinclair

On this particular night, which was long before the unfortunate split into "Old Ireland" and "Young Ireland," he had a fine opportunity of displaying his "physical force" proclivities in defence of the "moral force" leader.
— from The Life Story of an Old Rebel by John Denvir

Lot of money—ten or fifteen pounds, I daresay.”
— from Burr Junior by George Manville Fenn