FAUST Ah, shall there never be A quiet hour, to see us fondly plighted, With breast to breast, and soul to soul united?
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The fretful Porcupine was borne
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

When the old man came, Fyodor Pavlovitch would begin talking about the most trivial matters, and would soon let him go again, sometimes even with a jest.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The constant intercourse with the fictitious personages was beginning to make me quite nervous."
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

Characteristic examples of attempts to force facts to fit premises will be found in Book II.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

The above five persons were burnt at two stakes in one fire, singing hosannahs to the glorified Saviour, till the breath of life was extinct.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Stricture is most frequently seated at the point of junction between the bulbous and membranous portions of the canal; consequently, the false passage will be usually anterior to this latter point.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

I think, however, that the period is still remote at which the federal power will be entirely extinguished by its inability to protect itself and to maintain peace in the country.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

There was the Gladstone and the small hand-bag, and the two hampers, and a large roll of rugs, and some four or five overcoats and macintoshes, and a few umbrellas, and then there was a melon by itself in a bag, because it was too bulky to go in anywhere, and a couple of pounds of grapes in another bag, and a Japanese paper umbrella, and a frying pan, which, being too long to pack, we had wrapped round with brown paper.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

For allowing, what however never can be allowed, that an ordinary man might have some excuse for the dread of being sneered at, as wanting to be thought righteous overmuch; yet in a churchman, in a dignified churchman, family prayer would be expected as a customary decency, an indispensable appendage to his situation, which, though it might be practiced without piety, could not be omitted without disgrace, and which even a sensible infidel, considering it merely as a professional act, could not say was a custom "More honored in the breach than the observance." CHAPTER XXXVII.
— from Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More

"Never fear, before the week is out these fifty persons will be either in prison or in their graves."
— from Freedom by Mack Reynolds

This young woman, Madame Simone Le Bargy, of whom I wrote you last year when I reviewed “Le Retour de Jerusalem” from Paris, was brought to London by George Alexander, the actor-manager of the St. James Theater, not for a season “on her own,” but as his leading lady, and in English, too!
— from Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905 by Various

As someone came out of the hall I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses.
— from Margaret Sanger: an autobiography. by Margaret Sanger

No wonder that when his friend Peacock went, by his request, to call on him in London, he [Pg 62] showed in his looks, in his gestures, in his speech, the state of a mind, “suffering like a little kingdom, the nature of an insurrection.”
— from The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume 1 (of 2) by Marshall, Julian, Mrs.

Children climbed upon their mothers' breasts, and sought nourishment from the fountains that death had drained; girls and boys lay here and there with their throats cut from ear to ear; men and women, clinging 306 to each other in their terror, were found perforated with bullets or cut to pieces with knives—all were cruelly murdered!
— from Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

"Because, mamma, if I had such a fault, people would be so very anxious I should cure it.
— from Bessie in the City by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

Circulars containing programs and full particulars will be sent to all applicants.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, July 1885, No. 10 by Chautauqua Institution