The obstinate and intractable qualities of matter, we are told, or the observance of general laws, or some such reason, is the sole cause, which controlled the power and benevolence of Jupiter, and obliged him to create mankind and every sensible creature so imperfect and so unhappy.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

A MARINER A GAOLER TIME, as Chorus HERMIONE, Queen to Leontes PERDITA, daughter to Leontes and Hermione PAULINA, wife to Antigonus EMILIA, a lady attending on the Queen MOPSA, shepherdess DORCAS, " Other Lords, Gentlemen, Ladies, Officers, Servants, Shepherds, Shepherdesses SCENE: Sicilia and Bohemia ACT I. SCENE I. Sicilia.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I found him lying extended on his back in a cane chair, odiously unbuttoned, with a large green leaf of some sort on the top of his steaming head, and another in his hand which he used lazily as a fan . . .
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Snuff is the one great luxury of such Scotch shepherds; it’s the one thing with which you can bribe them.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Words of the same meaning are less often so than they are so called; and we sometimes give lists of synonyms showing the differences of their meanings.
— from An Outline of English Speech-craft by William Barnes

Noeldeke, Protestant professor at the University of Strasburg, one of the great lights of Semitic scholarship, declares that "by the side of the Psalms all other religious hymns appear as pale imitations merely."
— from Zionism and Anti-Semitism by Max Simon Nordau

A few years ago the Chicago Herald sent one of its reporters into the pineries of Wisconsin, to trace a little girl living on State street of that city who went one evening to get a pitcher of milk and did not return.
— from Woman, Church & State The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex by Matilda Joslyn Gage

There has grown up, on the other hand, in the last years, a great literature of special studies in the facts of aesthetic production and enjoyment.
— from The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Puffer Howes

In the great Lazaretto of San Spirito there has been prepared for the use of the artists a very fine anatomical figure, displaying the whole muscular system.
— from Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

While I was there I got lots of strength stored up, to last me many a year when I needed it; and, then, George and I were married at Lumley’s....” Aunt Kate came slowly over with the boy, and laid a hand on Cassy’s shoulder, for there was an undercurrent to the conversation which boded no good.
— from Northern Lights, Complete by Gilbert Parker

[74] I can recall the Tigris' strand, Where once the Turk and Tartar met, When the great Lord of Samarcand Struck down the Sultan Bajazet.
— from Songs Of The Road by Arthur Conan Doyle

My Lahulis, who always showed a great lack of stamina, sat down, sobbing and beating their breasts.
— from Among the Tibetans by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

When I got her hatches off—though that came later—I saw in one place a lot of wheelbarrows, and some heavy wagons stowed with their wheels inside of them, and some machinery for threshing along with a portable steam-engine; and in another place were boxes which seemed to have dry-goods in them, and a great many cases of wines, and some very big cases that evidently contained pianos—and so on with a great lot of stuff such as the people of a flourishing colony would be likely to need.
— from In the Sargasso Sea A Novel by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier