I mean literally that she pushes the search for perfection too far—that her merits are in themselves overstrained.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

A systematic breakdown of the STASM formula produces the following analysis outline, applicable to any single propaganda item, civil or military, in war or peace, spoken, visual, or printed.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

In the case of fifteen pebbles, the first player wins if he first takes two.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Had this man been endowed with the slightest capacity for perceiving the feelings of others, and had he at all understood what Pierre’s feelings were, the latter would probably have left him, but the man’s animated obtuseness to everything other than himself disarmed Pierre.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

campaña f plain; the field; campaign.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

What was the ground for painting the future in that dark way?
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

In the first place, the flavour of brandy is most grateful to the palate; and then brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking CAN do for him.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

In their quarrels, which are for pastures, they first push away each other with their hands, they then use stones, or, if wounds are inflicted, arrows and daggers.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

This whole street called Buckles bury on both the sides throughout is possessed of grocers and apothecaries towards the west end thereof: on the south side breaketh out one other short lane, called in records Peneritch street; it reacheth but to St. Sythe’s lane, and St. Sythe’s church is the farthest part thereof, for by the west end of the said church beginneth Needlar’s lane, which reacheth to Sopar’s lane, as is aforesaid.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

This done, they were conducted each after the other to the high Table, and there made to stand on a Forme placed thereon; from whence they were to speak their Speech with an audible voice to the Company: which, if well done, the person that spoke it was to have a Cup of Cawdle and no salted Drinke ; if indifferently, some Cawdle and some salted Drinke ; but if dull, nothing was given to him but salted Drinke or salt put in College Bere, with Tucks to book.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 by Various

“It shall be a family party, the five of us.”
— from Black is White by George Barr McCutcheon

After dinner he went to a rehearsal of the Oratorio Society, which was preparing Verdi's Manzoni Requiem for performance the following week.
— from Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel

Then, suddenly, her father had died, leaving her, until she reached the age of five-and-twenty, in the guardianship of his sister, Mrs. Nunn, who purposed making her favourite pilgrimage the following winter, insisted that Anne accompany her, and finally rented the manor over her head that she be forced to comply.
— from The Gorgeous Isle: A Romance; Scene-- Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

THE FIVE FUNDAMENTAL POSITIONS The first position The second position The change of the move The third position The fourth position The fifth position IV.
— from Chess and Checkers : the Way to Mastership by Edward Lasker

Should two suits tie for first place the Fates require you to make the pyramid over again.
— from Everybody's Book of Luck by Anonymous

" Juan d'Arphe himself made a custodia for Seville, the decorations and figures on which were directed by the learned Francesco Pacheco, the father-in-law of Velasquez.
— from Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

With a brisk movement of satisfaction, the nurse now drew a black, oblong object from the pocket of her dressing-gown, and going swiftly over to the fireplace, put the fender noiselessly aside, and knelt down on the hearth.
— from Shadows of Flames: A Novel by Amélie Rives

Although Sir Charles Barry has shortened the Hall of its former proportions to fit it as a vestibule to the New Houses of Parliament, it is still a noble and spacious building, and one cannot walk through it without in imagination recalling some of the Royal Christmases and other stately scenes which have been witnessed there.
— from Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by W. F. (William Francis) Dawson

never more would she come forth to meet him—never again would her little feet stray through the winding walks, or her fairy fingers pluck the flowers she had loved so well.
— from Dora Deane; Or, The East India Uncle by Mary Jane Holmes