The game of life is something like the game of écarte , and it may be that the very best cards are sometimes left in the pack.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"I will love you eternally, Gurudeva!" "Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

140 `And though ye Troians with us Grekes wrothe Han many a day be, alwey yet, pardee, O god of love in sooth we serven bothe.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

"Well, Gussie, old leper," I said, "I've been hearing all about you."
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

It is not thirty years ago since Mr Cameron of Lochiel, a gentleman of Lochaber in Scotland, without any legal warrant whatever, not being what was then called a lord of regality, nor even a tenant in chief, but a vassal of the Duke of Argyll, and with out being so much as a justice of peace, used, notwithstanding, to exercise the highest criminal jurisdictions over his own people.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

[3] We would call this a galantine of lamb if such a dish were made of lamb today.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

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— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Let other poets raise a fracas 'Bout vines, an' wines, an' drucken Bacchus, An' crabbit names an'stories wrack us, An' grate our lug: I sing the juice Scotch bear can mak us,
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

After this Parliament conferred on him a grant of lands in Scotland worth L1000 per annum.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But how if I serve thee as I did the two Giants of late, I should spoil your practice for the future?"
— from Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Robert Ford

The bulbs may be separated when the clumps get overcrowded, late in summer, after the tops have died down, being the most suitable time to do so.
— from Gardening for the Million by Alfred Pink

We cannot, [118] therefore, say, that the name alce , is properly Greek or Latin; it seems to have been derived from the Celtic tongue, in which the elk is named elch or elk .
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 08 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

After this, all grants of lands in Salem were made by the people of the town or their own local courts.
— from Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects by Charles Wentworth Upham

I’ve led a lonesome life of it, young ‘un; straying away months and months out in the wilderness, without a human being to speak to, I dare say that wasn’t a right sort of life for a man to take up with; but I did take up with it; and I can’t get over liking it sometimes still.
— from Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins

We sinners can never pass into that central glory, nor ever possess those gifts of grace, unless the barrier that stands between us and God, between us and His highest gifts of love, is swept away.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren

how is she to live and to go on living in such a desert?
— from The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

[With a short laugh] Good Lord! I suppose you'd have me eat humble pie and tell Athene she can go on living in sin and offending society, and have my blessing to round it off.
— from Plays : Fifth Series by John Galsworthy