Playing cards, hobnobbing with flash toffs with a swank glass in their eye, adrinking fizz and he half smothered in writs and garnishee orders.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

‘Sachha Raj’ was the proud epithet applied by our new allies to the British Government in the East; a title which distinguished the immortal Alfred, ‘the upright.’
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

And this is the dissolution:—In plants that grow in the earth, as well as in animals that move on the earth's surface, fertility and sterility of soul and body occur when the circumferences of the circles of each are completed, which in short-lived existences pass over a short space, and in long-lived ones over a long space.
— from The Republic by Plato

Don’t you see at once that the answers he has given in the examination are the holy truth?
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This agrees with the opinion expressed by Goethe in the Elective Affinities , and there put into the mouth of Mittler—the man who is always trying to make other people happy: To desire to get rid of an evil is a definite object, but to desire a better fortune than one has is blind folly .
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

But here is the divine account of the cause of the deluge: "The Lord God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

I find myself growing in the esteem and credit that I have in the office, and I hope falling to my business again will confirm me in it, and the saving of money which God grant!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The sun was beginning to burn their faces, the dust got into their eyes, and on either side of the road there stretched an interminable tract of bare, ugly country with an unpleasant odor.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

She was silent, and not only less pretty than at the ball, but only redeemed from plainness by her look of gentle indifference to everything around.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

After it had become almost a law that no aviator should descend lower than twelve thousand feet, British aviators on the Somme descended to three hundred, emptied their machine guns into the enemy, and escaped the patter of rifle fire which the surprised German soldiers had hardly begun before the plane at two miles a minute or more was out of range.
— from My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer

The English barons were several times desirous of going into the East, against the will of the king; and the idea of opposing a monarch they did not love, often added to their impatience to embark for Palestine.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 3 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

My day—every day—is divided into these parts: (1) two to three hours listening to Americans or their agents here whose cargoes are stopped, to sorrowing American parents whose boys have run away and gone into the English Army, to nurses and doctors and shell makers who wish to go to France, to bereaved English men and women whose sons are "missing": can I have them found in Germany?
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick

But above all this, God in the early ages gave them the Scriptures, and the Truth made them free.
— from Sketches of the Covenanters by J. C. (James Calvin) McFeeters

“You must see a good deal of the coarser-grained human material here in Crossbourne,” remarked Dr Prosser to the vicar, as they strolled together in the garden in the evening after their meeting.
— from True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best by Theodore P. Wilson

What strikes one most in the lives of the very great is that every action has a cumulative force beyond what it ever has in the existence of ordinary men.
— from Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

If to so many military qualifications they knew how to join the arts of government, if they exerted as much ingenuity and solicitude in relieving the people of God, as they do in whatever concerns their military affairs, no nation in the world would be preferable to them, or worthier of command.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 4 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

but , if anything at all went wrong (such as the unshipping of an oar, for instance), it might make it hard to get into the eddy at the bend; and if we missed the eddy—Death Rapids!
— from Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

It is well known that woodcocks follow certain routes to their favorite feeding grounds in the evening, as they also have preferences for certain woods and certain parts of woods to lie in during the day.
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent

Professor Wilson has disappointed [Pg 75] the expectations of his enemies, to say the least, and has been gaining in the esteem and good will of all classes of the community.
— from The Genius of Scotland; or, Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull