—We must once more sweep out of the world all this false grandeur, for it is contrary to the justice that all things about us may claim.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Which ideas are not generally framed in the minds of men not conversant about these operations.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

I told him about my guide, for I was proud of what I had done, and my vanity for once got the heels of my prudence.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Come, now, let’s cheer up; there’s been as good fish in the sea as there are now.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

I look upon the entire absence of gratuitous functionaries in America as one of the most prominent signs of the absolute dominion which democracy exercises in that country.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

I thank you for your company; but, good faith, I had as lief have been myself alone. ORLANDO.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

All I had gathered from it amounted to this,—that there was a mystery at Thornfield; and that from participation in that mystery I was purposely excluded.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

[42] Words directly from the Latin and [43] Greek, framed in accordance with the rules which govern the construction of the language, are not Slang, but are good English, if not Saxon,—a term, by the way, which is as much misused as any unfortunate word that can be remembered just now.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Geganius Finbria IIvir.
— from A Study of the Topography and Municipal History of Praeneste by Ralph Van Deman Magoffin

Ha ivver good folk I’ll try to be breef, For I knaw you’re i’ pain
— from Random Rhymes and Rambles by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

Anyhow the Comet is as good an aeroplane as she is a dirigible balloon, and we can go faster in the former shape, as there is not so much air resistance when the gas bag is not fully inflated.”
— from The Motor Boys Over the Ocean; Or, A Marvelous Rescue in Mid-Air by Clarence Young

He removed to East Tennessee, where he spent three years, part of the time in a glass factory in Knoxville, and part of the time boating on the Tennessee River.
— from A History of the Ninth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry by Marion Morrison

Even Morgan, who goes further in his destructive criticism than any other authoritative writer, admits that Prescott and his sources "may be trusted in whatever relates to the acts of the Spaniards, and to the acts and personal characteristics of the Indians; in whatever relates to their weapons, implements and utensils, fabrics, food and raiment, and things of a similar character."
— from William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck

Prince Albert had a costume of the same period, with the Star of the Garter, [Pg 83] and the Order of the Golden Fleece in brilliants.
— from The Evolution of Fashion by Florence Mary Gardiner

And if he should go back to the history of this government from its foundation, it would be easy to prove that its decisions had been affected, in general, by less majorities than that.
— from An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child

Such people go to extremes in everything they do and are generally fanatics in religion, social reform, or whatever line of thought occupies their attention.
— from Palmistry for All by Cheiro

And in truth the treaty could not but be favourably regarded by the States General; for it had been carefully framed with the especial object of preventing France from obtaining any accession of territory, or influence on the side of the Netherlands; and Dutchmen, who remembered the terrible year when the camp of Lewis had been pitched between Utrecht and Amsterdam, were delighted to find that he was not to add to his dominions a single fortress in their neighbourhood, and were quite willing to buy him off with whole provinces under the Pyrenees and the Apennines.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron