Nakasugabin kug tudlù magabíi gíkan sa upisína, I got a job part-time teaching at night after office hours.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And Zarathustra answered them thus: The destroyer of morality, the good and just call me: my story is immoral.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

As he ran he thought of things that hadn't come into his mind for years—how at the time he married he had planned to go west to his uncle in Portland, Oregon—how he hadn't wanted to be a farm hand, but had thought when he got out West he would go to sea and be a sailor or get a job on a ranch and ride a horse into Western towns, shouting and laughing and waking the people in the houses with his wild cries.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

Of the second are the passions of love and hatred, grief and joy, pride and humility.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

and then she would belch a whole world of sparks up out of her chimbleys, and they would rain down in the river and look awful pretty; then she would turn a corner and her lights would wink out and her powwow shut off and leave the river still again; and by and by her waves would get to us, a long time after she was gone, and joggle the raft a bit, and after that you wouldn’t hear nothing for you couldn’t tell how long, except maybe frogs or something.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

And in this sense it is, that St. John the Evangelist, and, I think, St. John onely calleth our Saviour himself as in the flesh "the Word of God (as Joh. 1.14.)
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Dílì ka makasulud [ 1027 ] ug trabáhu ug dì ka tituládu, You can’t get a job if you don’t have a degree.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

gracia f grace; pl ( dar return) thanks; dar—— s a thank; Ministerio de G—— y Justicia Department of Grace and Justice (i.e. religion and courts).
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

And now you feed me, when then you let me starve, forbade me your house, and damned me because I wouldn’t get a job.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Why, he stood as much chance of getting a job in Packingtown as of being chosen mayor of Chicago.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

In the syllogism of action, the conclusion, that is to say, the performance of a given act, just as in the syllogism of theory, is connected with the rule given in the major premiss by a statement of fact; thus e.g. the performance of a specific act such as the writing of this book is connected with the general rule what helps to spread knowledge ought to be done by the conviction that the writing of this book helps to spread knowledge.
— from Aristotle by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Taylor

She was startled, and exclaimed under her breath at the appearance of the girl walking up and down in the corridor: “I did think you would have had the sense to go and join the others, Miss Bee.”
— from The Sorceress (complete) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

AUNT REBECCA ( glancing about ) Jes’ now?
— from Goat Alley: A Tragedy of Negro Life by Ernest Howard Culbertson

"Lucia often talked of you and of her regret at going away just when you were expected."
— from A Canadian Heroine, Volume 3 A Novel by Coghill, Harry, Mrs.

So why did his sister not go and join the others?
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

With all the apparent simplicity which Quill exhibited, he was as good a judge of politeness, and knew as well the difference between gentlemanlike familiarity and impertinent freedom, as 52 any man in the army; which the following anecdote will in a great measure prove.
— from The Military Sketch-Book, Vol. 2 of 2 Reminiscences of seventeen years in the service abroad and at home by William Maginn

“Perhaps I could borrow two and so employ both of you,” remarked Herbert, with a glance at James, who was sprucely dressed and wore a flower in his buttonhole.
— from Herbert Carter's Legacy; Or, the Inventor's Son by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

"Couldn't you keep that going, and just force him to climb up the chimney again?"
— from Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge by Silas K. Boone

(John Ball in Appendix G, page 438, in "Journal of a Tour in Morocco and the Great Atlas", J.D. Hooker and J. Ball, London, 1878.)
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

The Roman government and Judaism Such was the state of things which the Romans found confronting them when they entered on rule in the East.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 2 by Theodor Mommsen