but though I took a good occasion of going to the Trumpet she declined coming, which vexed me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And he made this unification intelligible to the Chinese mind by his famous T’ai chi t’u , or Diagram of the Great Origin (or Grand Terminus), showing that the Grand Original Cause, itself uncaused, produces the yang and the yin , these the Five Elements, and so on, through the male and female norms ( tao ), to the production of all things.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

(2) The Revival of Romantic Poetry; the meaning of Romanticism; the life and work of Thomas Gray; of Oliver Goldsmith, famous as poet, dramatist, and novelist; of William Cowper; of Robert Burns, the greatest of Scottish poets; of William Blake, the mystic; and the minor poets of the early romantic movement,--James Thomson, William Collins, George Crabbe, James Macpherson, author of the Ossian poems, Thomas Chatterton, the boy who originated the Rowley Papers, and Thomas Percy, whose work for literature was to collect the old ballads, which he called the Reliques of Ancient English Poetry , and to translate the stories of Norse mythology in his Northern Antiquities .
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

I simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which has got out of gear.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

They had come to America with grants from the king, they had family portraits and family silver and family diamonds, and now in this generation of orphaned girls, two of them at least were fighting the last battles of family pride.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

But when I had won what I coveted, did I realize that I was going over old ground?
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

A race of gods or of giants must have inhabited Baalbec many a century ago.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Gutes aus Gutem, das kann jedweder Verständige bilden; / Aber der Genius ruft Gutes aus Schlechtem hervor —Good out of good is what every man of intellect can fashion, but it takes genius to evoke good out of bad.
— 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.

My acquaintance smiled—not a modern smile, but one that must have gone out of general use many, many centuries ago—and muttered apparently to himself: “Wit ye well, I saw it done .”
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Remembering the attention she had attracted on her first appearance in Raymond's world she concluded that she had "gone off" or grown dowdy, and instead of wasting more time in museums and lecture-halls she prolonged her hours at the dress-maker's and gave up the rest of the day to the scientific cultivation of her beauty.
— from The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

Marked inefficiency has been shown in dealing with corporations and in re-settling the proper attitude to be taken by the public not only towards corporations, but towards labor and towards the social questions arising out of the factory system and the enormous growth of our great cities.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt

"We were much pleased with our party, and with the simple and unaffected gayety of our guests.
— from Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

The church is guilty of one great contradiction.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

“I don’t want to get out of going to church,” he said.
— from The Flirt by Booth Tarkington

I afterwards showed that the specific gravity of a gas is either equal to its atomic weight multiplied by 1·111[.1] (the specific gravity of oxygen gas), or by 0·555[.5] (half the specific gravity of oxygen gas), or by O·277[.7] (1-4th of the specific gravity of oxygen gas),(1-4th of the specific gravity of oxygen gas), these differences depending upon the relative condensation which the gases undergo when their elements unite.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson

The judge sat and laughed at the good opportunity of getting the names, that they might the more easily capture them, and so bring them down to be thrust into prison, in order to prevent us from getting the truth before the pretended court, of which himself was the chief inquisitor or conspirator.
— from History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother by Lucy Smith

Sir Donald and Esther felt the pleasure growing out of generous, hospitable entertainment, but there was much of unspoken recrimination between their guests.
— from Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Levi Jackson Hamilton

Lucky we won the [Pg 44] toss, and have the game on our grounds.
— from Those Smith Boys on the Diamond; or, Nip and Tuck for Victory by Howard Roger Garis