The Tesoretto , or Little Treasure , is an allegorical poem in Italian rhymed couplets.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The thinking involved in right conduct is calculation—calculation of means to an end fixed by nature and foreknowable Action itself is at its best just the realisation of a scheme preconceived and thought out beforehand, commending itself by its inherent attractiveness or promise of enjoyment.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Then, internally, “If Renée could see me, I hope she would be satisfied, and would no longer call me a decapitator.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

sē nōn ante coeptūrum quam ignem in rēgiīs castrīs cōnspexisset , L. 30, 5, 5, that he would not begin before he saw fire in the royal camp ( 1766 , 1921 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

In the heavy air of the room, and the heavy darkness that brooded in its remoter corners, I even had an alarming fancy that Estella and I might presently begin to decay.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

destroying &c. v.; demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion, suppression; abolition &c. (abrogation) 756; biblioclasm[obs3]; sacrifice; ravage, razzia[obs3]; inactivation; incendiarism; revolution &c. 146; extirpation &c. (extraction) 301; beginning of the end, commencement de la fin[French], road to ruin; dilapidation &c. (deterioration) 659; sabotage.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

indulge in reverie &c. (be inattentive) 458.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

From the first scene we get this impression, and in the scene with Oswald it is repeatedly confirmed.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

When I find myself disgusted with Plato’s ‘Axiochus’, as with a work, with due respect to such an author be it spoken, without force, my judgment does not believe itself: it is not so arrogant as to oppose the authority of so many other famous judgments of antiquity, which it considers as its tutors and masters, and with whom it is rather content to err; in such a case, it condemns itself either to stop at the outward bark, not being able to penetrate to the heart, or to consider it by sortie false light.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

It improves railroad coffee.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Obligation is in reality causal determination, and as there is a volition more or less marked in each act, and the causal chain is never interrupted, we can be said to be always under the influence of obligation, the power of which increases with life.
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

Those who know something of medicinal plants — "Root Drugs" — can safely embark in their cultivation, for while prices may ease off — go lower — at times, it is reasonably certain that the general trend will be upward as the supply growing wild is rapidly becoming less each year.
— from Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants A Book of Valuable Information for Growers as Well as Collectors of Medicinal Roots, Barks, Leaves, Etc. by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding

He is available for the cross-examination which, if I remember correctly, was requested by Counsel for the Defendant Kaltenbrunner.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 6 by Various

As they went he said not a word, being aware that gold, gold that they could see with their eyes in its raw condition, would tempt them more surely than all his eloquence.
— from John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope

It is rather curious to think that Brazil—a republic [Pg 63] not usually associated with progressive measures—should have been, with Great Britain, the only country to issue stamps for nine whole years after their introduction.
— from Peeps at Postage Stamps by Stanley C. (Stanley Currie) Johnson

It is remarkable, continued Giafar, that Schemseddin happened also to marry at Cairo the very same day that this marriage was solemnized at Balsora; the particulars are as follow.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

We did not land upon it, but passed near enough to see that it is richly cultivated on the lower parts, and that all the houses are collected into villages, shaded as usual by large trees round the bottom, and for one-third of the way up the sides of the peak.
— from Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island by Basil Hall

I have betaken myself to the Rock Ferry Hotel, where I am as comfortable as I could be anywhere but at home; but it is rather comfortless to think of hone as three years off, and three thousand miles away.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete by Nathaniel Hawthorne

But upon all high rocks are placed metal rods—lightning rods, in fact—and it is asserted that at all times, day and night, but more particularly when there are clouds around the mountain, a constant stream of electricity passes down the rods and is retained and stored in insulated receptacles constructed for the purpose underground.
— from The Devil-Tree of El Dorado: A Novel by Frank Aubrey

Ic, Ic, R, Chow, Ic, Ic, R—Ic, Ic, quake, tyr, fear.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone