That great Frenchman first carried out the conception that living bodies, fundamentally considered, are not associations of organs which can be understood by studying them first apart, and then as it were federally; but must be regarded as consisting of certain primary webs or tissues, out of which the various organs—brain, heart, lungs, and so on—are compacted, as the various accommodations of a house are built up in various proportions of wood, iron, stone, brick, zinc, and the rest, each material having its peculiar composition and proportions.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

square, unexceptionable, right; equitable &c. 922; due, en r gle; fit, fitting; correct, proper, meet, befitting, becoming, seemly; decorous; creditable, up to the mark, right as a trivet; just the thing, quite the thing; selon les r gles[Fr].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

And good fortune frequently contributes to all this, by discovering the effects that result from the different mixtures and combinations of bodies.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

My Lord of Warwick and my brother Gloucester, Follow Fluellen closely at the heels; The glove which I have given him for a favour May haply purchase him a box o' th' ear.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

When Gloucester says the word, King Henry goes; For friendly counsel cuts off many foes.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

accomplishment, acquirement, attainment; art, science; technicality, technology; practical knowledge, technical knowledge. knowledge of the world, world wisdom, savoir faire[Fr]; tact; mother wit &c. (sagacity) 498; discretion &c. *(caution) 864; finesse; craftiness &c. (cunning) 702; management &c. (conduct) 692; self-help. cleverness, talent, ability, ingenuity, capacity, parts, talents, faculty, endowment, forte, turn, gift, genius; intelligence &c. 498; sharpness, readiness &c. (activity) 682; invention &c. 515; aptness, aptitude; turn for, capacity for, genius for; felicity, capability, curiosa felicitas[Lat], qualification, habilitation.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

He said: "I had no time for play, for gaping freedom: First children, and then work for bread to feed 'em,— For bread, in the widest sense, to drudge, And could not even eat my share in peace and quiet!"
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lord Marney rose from his seat and addressed Lady Firebrace, whose husband in another part of the room had caught Mr Jermyn, and was opening his mind on “the question of the day;” Lady Maud, followed by Egremont, approached Mr St Lys, and said, “Mr Egremont has a great feeling for Christian architecture, Mr St Lys, and wishes particularly to visit our church of which we are so proud.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Else would ye mark, without all toil of ours, Spontaneous generations, fairer forms. Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

More than mere acquaintance, he hopes; for surely those warm words, and glances far from cold, could not be the sole offspring of gratitude!
— from Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid

My lads, we shall make a good fight for country and faith, and die, if God will, like true men facing odds.
— from The Plowshare and the Sword: A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena

Every heart was cheered and warmed by the magic of the music, the babies fell asleep, strangers grew friendly, fear changed to courage, and the most forlorn felt the romance of that bivouac under the summer sky.
— from Proverb Stories by Louisa May Alcott

Imports: $320 million (c.i.f., 1998) Imports - commodities: machinery and transportation equipment, manufactured goods, food, fuels, chemicals, pharmaceuticals Imports - partners: US 52%, Mexico 13%, UK 5% (1997) Debt - external: $380 million (1997)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

It infers no sympathy with these wild schemes of destruction, and artificial reconstruction, to desire that our law should give facility for co-operation and combination—nay, that it should give to it every encouragement consistent with other interests, and with civil liberty.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852 by Various

Charleston had a spacious harbor, a central position, and [Pg 18] a mild climate; and from priority of settlement and business connections, to say nothing of other advantages, she enjoyed greater facilities for commercial transactions than Philadelphia.
— from The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Hinton Rowan Helper

"No, not since we were out on Lake Geneva, fishing for cisco."
— from Judge Elbridge by Opie Percival Read

Two guns fired from Cobble Hill were to be the signal that the enemy had landed on Long Island.
— from The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year by Henry Phelps Johnston

chu-chu, chu, chuck!” are 75 flitting, grey flakes, from coppice to coppice, preparatory to settling for the night The grouse-cocks’ challenge, “kibeck, kibeck, kibeck!”
— from Sketch-Book of the North by George Eyre-Todd