Blockula seems to be a Swedish edition of Blocksberg, of old considered a great resort of witches.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

And you a respectable woman go rushing off where they are. . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Wherefore, if wealth cannot get rid of want, and makes new wants of its own, how can ye believe that it bestows independence?' SONG III.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

That it is an opinion very generally received, or which ought to be generally received, that the College of Astronomers in the city of Rotterdam, as well as other colleges in all other parts of the world,—not to mention colleges and astronomers in general,—are, to say the least of the matter, not a whit better, nor greater, nor wiser than they ought to be.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

If you never accomplish anything else in life, get rid of worry.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

‘Everybody is getting rich one way or another, so I want to make haste to get rich too.’
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And, as they passed by that dark wood, one knight of those that rode, missing his comrades, wandered far away, and returned to them no more; and they, sorely grieving, rode on without him, mourning him as one dead.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

" Gram rejoined: "Oft with conquering hand I have tamed the necks of mighty kings, defeating with stronger arm their insolent pride.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

While the pensioner of Ghent and his eminence were exchanging very low bows and a few words in voices still lower, a man of lofty stature, with a large face and broad shoulders, presented himself, in order to enter abreast with Guillaume Rym; one would have pronounced him a bull-dog by the side of a fox.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Much of the government reserves of woollen underwear for the soldiers was in the captured towns, and German prisoners have been found wearing woollens with the French Government stamp.
— from Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front by Mary Roberts Rinehart

But now my eyes fell upon a very different kind of marginal note which ran thus:— 'The one important fact of the twentieth century will be the growth and development of that great Renascence of Wonder which set in in Europe at the close of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth.
— from Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton

Now if you'll ..." "Putting aside all personal feeling," continued Captain Rannie, and indeed he had gone right on while his employer was speaking, "putting all that to one side, I feel it my duty as master of the vessel.
— from Command by William McFee

A great ring of white light lay on the wet ground before the porch, thrown from the electric lamps within.
— from The Immortal Moment: The Story of Kitty Tailleur by May Sinclair

So far as he was concerned it did not matter much whether the three men in the Flash were captured or not; but it was an affair of exceeding importance that the good, reliable old Wireless should overhaul its rival in this masterly manner.
— from Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence Or, Solving the Mystery of the Thousand Islands by Louis Arundel

In fact, America astonishes the world; and it is no common pleasure to study and note the progress of this great republic of which Chicago is the second city in commercial importance, as well as in population.
— from By Water to the Columbian Exposition by Johanna Sara Wisthaler

In my early youth I worked from necessity, and then I formed a habit which I cannot now get rid of; while Camille Langis—” “Once more?”
— from Samuel Brohl and Company by Victor Cherbuliez

Black offers the exchange in order to get rid of White's QB.
— from Chess Strategy by Edward Lasker

Numbers of them sought only to shorten regular time in order to lengthen overtime, and numbers more got themselves persuaded that a general reduction of hours was the grand means of effecting a general rise of wages, either by removing the competition of the unemployed, or in some other way; and it has often been only the few—always the very élite of labour—who fought for the eight hours day because they valued the leisure enough to make, if necessary, some little sacrifice for so noble a boon.
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae

If the Labor-takers, whoever they may be, more strongly desire the services of the Labor-givers, whoever they may be, other things remaining as before, there will be a rise in the rates of Wages, because Effects always follow the operation of Causes in Economics, as in all other scientific spheres; and if the Labor-takers, for any reason, desire less than before the services of Laborers, other things being equal, the general rates of Wages will decline of necessity.
— from Principles of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry