Remember, you began by getting angry with people and things in general; but you never did anything to improve either of them.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But I conceive that not only the Thessalians, but the other Greeks also, were preserved by Philip’s means.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

He was a man without a past, whose future was the imminent grave and whose present was a bitter fever of living.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

3 [A] go about with penis dangling freely.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

When he imagined that he had discovered those signs upon any individual, he would take him in hand and instruct him how to assist fortune by good and wise principles; and he used to say, with a great deal of truth, that a good remedy would turn into poison in the hands of a fool, but that poison is a good remedy when administered by a learned man.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In 1846 a treaty was concluded at Washington by which the conflicting claims of the Old Settlers and later emigrants were adjusted, reimbursement was promised for sums unjustly deducted from the five-million-dollar payment guaranteed under the treaty of 1835, and a general amnesty was proclaimed for all past offenses within the Nation.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Graduating at West Point, as he did, during the second year of the war, he had won his way up to the command of a corps before its close.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

" Four months or so of torturing ecstasy in his society—of "pleasure girdled about with pain".
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

He drew it quickly out again, but saw that it was quite gilded, and whatsoever pains he took to wash the gold off again, all was to no purpose.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

"As it turned out," Katon continued, "Urim, himself, desired this girl and was planning to make her Sephar's queen.
— from Warrior of the Dawn by Howard Browne

Only the tidings which had reached Washington up to four o'clock—all presaging certain and decisive victory—were permitted to go North by telegraph that day and evening; so that, on Monday morning, when the crowd of fugitives from our grand Army was pouring into Washington, a heedless, harmless, worthless mob, the Loyal States were exulting over accounts of a decisive triumph.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

That when all is done will be found to contain some hints as to the manner in which 'charities' of this kind have need to be managed, under a government armed with powers so indefinable.
— from The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon

Though we have no record of his life or his labours, beyond the statement "that he was a native of Scotland, and had a living in Essex before he came to Harborough," yet by his Nonconformity he teaches us that he had embraced principles which led him to refuse to bow to the dictates of men in the things of God, and which prompted him rather to sacrifice his worldly interests than what related to truth and a good conscience.
— from Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman

A favorable season for botflies, Cuterebra sp., revealed that P. maniculatus has a higher incidence of parasitism by these flies than has P. truei ; possibly the adult flies concentrate in the open, grassy areas where P. maniculatus is more abundant, rather than in the woodlands where P. truei lives.
— from Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by Charles L. Douglas

He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1858, was graduated at West Point, and began his career as a second lieutenant of engineers.
— from The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. by Caroline French Benton

He must combine the rich faculties of condensation and analysis, of judgment in the selection of materials, and calmness in the expression of opinions, with that most excellent gift of faith, so especially precious to Church historians, which implies a love for the Catholic cause, a reverence for its saintly champions, an abhorrence of the misdeeds which have defiled it, and a confidence that its 'truth is great, and will prevail.'
— from Notes and Queries, Number 139, June 26, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various