Fortune will give us Disappointments enough, and Nature is attended with Infirmities enough, without our adding to the unhappy Side of our Account by our Spleen or ill Humour.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Sovra le spalle, dietro da la coppa, con l'ali aperte li giacea un draco; e quello affuoca qualunque s'intoppa.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Among his works, the following deserve mentioning: "Kampf der Jüdischen Hierarchie," Breslau, 1784; "Jüdische Intoleranz und Fanatismus in Breslau," ib . 1789; "Patriotische Bemerkungen," ib. 1790; "Ueber die Allzufrühen Ehen der Jüdischen Nation," 1790; "Apologie der Menschenrechte," Zurich, 1793; "Biographie des Jüdischen Gelehrten und Dichters, Ephraim Moses Kuh," ib. 1791.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

At them he gan to reare his bristles strong, And felly gnarre, until Dayes enemy Did him appease; then downe his taile he hong 305 And suffred them to passen quietly:
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

To me, the brother of Cartouche, an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, until death ensued, for the sole crime of having been the brother of Cartouche, is no less painful than the grandson of Louis XV., an innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime of having been grandson of Louis XV.” “Monsieur,” said the Bishop, “I like not this conjunction of names.” “Cartouche?
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Hare's Bride (Häsichenbraut) 67 The Twelve Huntsmen (Die zwölf Jäger) 68 The Thief and His Master (De Gaudeif un sien Meester) 69 Jorinde and Joringel (Jorinde und Joringel) 70 The Three Children of Fortune (Die drei Glückskinder) 71 How Six Men Got On in the World (Sechse kommen durch die ganze Welt) 72 The Wolf and the Man (Der Wolf und der Mensch) 73 The Wolf and the Fox (Der Wolf und der Fuchs) 74 The Fox and His Cousin (Der Fuchs und die Frau Gevatterin) 75 The Fox and the Cat (Der Fuchs und die Katze) 76 The Pink (Die Nelke) 77 Clever Grethel (Das kluge Gretel) 78 The Old Man and His Grandson (Der alte Großvater und der Enkel) 79
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

If a man wants to give up drinking even when he seems practically a hopeless wreck from the effects of alcohol, he can do so if he has a physician in whom he has confidence, who will relieve him from depressing symptoms due to previous excess, who will lift him up and strengthen him by food and stimulation, and, above all, by faithful, unending, never discouraged assurance that
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Thus, in renouncing all idea of conquest, Louis Napoleon did not give up disturbing Europe.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

And when one compares all our documents, it is significant that they do not give us discordant estimates of the religious worth of Jesus.
— from Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking by Henry Sloane Coffin

He had stood, gazing under drooping eyelids at his disciple's feet.
— from The Divine Fire by May Sinclair

“Ueber die Geschlechtsorgane u. die Entwicklung von Cyclas.”
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

Garnet underwent daily examinations from the Earl [Pg 356] of Salisbury and the commissioners, but he baffled all their inquiries.
— from Guy Fawkes; or, The Gunpowder Treason: An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth

anti, enti, inti, unti, G. und, D. en, OD.
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster