Because thou hast done this, thou art accurst Above all Cattel, each Beast of the Field; Upon thy Belly groveling thou shalt goe, And dust shalt eat all the days of thy Life.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Its earlier growth and development stands in the same relation to its fruit as writing stands to printing.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

"The first learning in the world," says the great antiquary, Dr. Stukely, "consisted chiefly of symbols.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Every different way in which you can link one half-string to another gives a different solution.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Mudugnas (madugnas) na gánì ang dáhun sa úbi, kanà panglihun na, When the leaves of the yam die out, it means the tubers are ready for gathering.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This apartment, to which she had given a date so ancient, a position so awful, proved to be one end of what the general's father had built.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

[Frightened] No, don’t go away, do stop; be a dear.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"Worth a guinea a drop," said I, "and more—to men like that."
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

This nation, endowed at its commencement with so precious an inheritance of political genius, felt its civil superiority to the illiberal or ineffective governments of Europe, and this feeling has [ 290 ] produced in Americans a supreme and traditional confidence in their own forms of government and democratic standards of life.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Now if, in the middle of some work, a man quickly performs an action whilst others talk and laugh and leave him entirely on one side, this gives a definite sociological stamp to the magical actions, and does not allow us to use the term ‘ceremonial,’ as the distinguishing mark of the magical acts.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

This was a beautiful woman of the world, wearing a Paris gown and diamonds so sumptuous that they put every one else’s into the shade.
— from Pink Gods and Blue Demons by Cynthia Stockley

Through his hands have passed all the affairs of Italy, and also those of Flanders, ever since this country has been governed by Don Juan, who promotes his interests greatly, as do, still more, the Archbishop of Toledo and the Marquis de Los Valez.
— from Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various

As stated in the Post Office circular, the colors followed those of the Queen's head stamps, except that the 7 cent value was given a darker shade, more of an olive than before and an improvement on its predecessor.
— from Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Clifton A. (Clifton Armstrong) Howes

Down Massett Inlet we paddled and sailed for thirty miles, through great flocks of wild geese and ducks, several of which were soon added to our provision supply.
— from Official Report of the Exploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands for the Government of British Columbia by Newton H. Chittenden

“You’ll be glad anyway, dear,” said Mrs. Merrill, “because we’re going to ride home.
— from Mary Jane Down South by Clara Ingram Judson

Second, that no bridge should be opened to the public until a plan giving all dimensions, strains, and loads, sworn to by the designers and makers, and attested by the corporation having control of it, had been deposited with the American Society; and further, that the principal pieces of iron in the bridge should [Pg 83] be stamped with the name of the maker, place of manufacture, and date.
— from Bridge Disasters in America: The Cause and the Remedy by George L. (George Leonard) Vose

By which time, one is perfectly sick of the Bishop, and of these speculations on the might-have-been, which are indeed by no means unnatural, being exactly what every man indulges in now and then in his {320} own case, which, in conversation, would not be unpleasant, but which, gradually and diffusedly set down in a book, and interrupting a narrative, are most certainly "rigmarole."
— from Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury