The two men lived at an hotel garni in Rue de Seine.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Das Ideal in der Kunst, Grösse in Ruhe darzustellen, sei das Ideal auf dem Throne —Let the ideal in art, the representation of majesty in repose, be the ideal on the throne.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

IMPARTIALITÉ D'UN SOUVERAIN Gustave III, roi de Suède, était un despote éclairé et aimait à faire justice de tout le monde, sans partialité.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Gustave III , roi de Suède de 1771 à 1792.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

When he did not let go, I reached down slowly, grabbed his hands and began to pry.
— from Where Your Treasure Is: Being the Personal Narrative of Ross Sidney, Diver by Holman Day

The vivacious style of the book makes it pleasant reading, however, if one does not try to fancy its young barbarians in the world of actuality.” – + N Y Times 22:90 Mr 11 ‘17 150w 369 “The children are not particularly attractive and the character portraiture generally is rather dim.” — Springf’d Republican p19 Je 10 ‘17 170w MANTZ, HAROLD ELMER.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

Failure is always supposed to make a man patient and humble and good; it rarely does so, unless to begin with his spirit has been wakened from sleep.
— from A Hardy Norseman by Edna Lyall

Years ago, when I was a baby girl, I remember dimly seeing two men in an awful fight one night just at dusk down on the railroad track by Clover Creek in Ohio.
— from Winning the Wilderness by Margaret Hill McCarter

The lamp, still alight, slipped to the ground, its rays directed skywards like a miniature searchlight.
— from To the Fore with the Tanks! by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

An' now auld Cloots, I ken ye're thinkin', A certain Ghoul is rantin', drinkin', Some luckless night will send him linkin', To your black pit; But, faith!
— from Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment by John C. Lester

But it likewise differs in constitution; I hear from Mr. Ralfs, who was so kind as to send me plants from Cornwall, that it grows in rather different sites; and Dr. Moore, of the Glasnevin Botanic Gardens, informs me that it is much more manageable under culture, growing freely and flowering annually; whilst Pinguicula vulgaris has to be renewed every year.
— from Insectivorous Plants by Charles Darwin