When such a day coincides with the inner mood there is intoxication in its breath; and Selden, hastening along the street through the squalor of its morning confidences, felt himself thrilling with a youthful sense of adventure.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

For, the mind having in most cases, as is evident in experience, a power to SUSPEND the execution and satisfaction of any of its desires; and so all, one after another; is at liberty to consider the objects of them, examine them on all sides, and weigh them with others.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

But more than likely it was originally a curled-up rose leaf; for the rose, variously conventionalized, is most common to this class.
— from The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by William De Lancey Ellwanger

What you style Flatland is the vast level surface of what I may call a fluid, on, or in, the top of which you and your countrymen move about, without rising above it or falling below it.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

It is my constant rule to ask nothing from him but what he can understand, and there is no good reason why a child should treat one sex differently from the other.]
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“If they are getting it up they are keeping it mighty close.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Satan, perceiving my rationality almost gone, followed me up with another temptation; that as there was no God I must come back to his work again, else when he had brought me to hell he would punish me more than all the rest.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Finally, if you and I should come to a right understanding, I do declare in verbo sacerdotis, that, in case of any such prosecution, I will take the whole upon my own shoulders, even quoad fine and imprisonment, though, I must confess, I should not care to undergo flagellation: Tam ad turpitudinem, quam ad amaritudinem poenoe spectans—Secondly, concerning the personal resentment of Mr Justice Lismahago, I may say, non flocci facio—I would not willingly vilipend any Christian, if, peradventure, he deserveth that epithet: albeit, I am much surprised that more care is not taken to exclude from the commission all such vagrant foreigners as may be justly suspected of disaffection to our happy constitution, in church and state—God forbid that I should be so uncharitable, as to affirm, positively, that the said Lismahago is no better than a Jesuit in disguise; but
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

flavam bilem ac sanguinem in melancholiam convertens.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Or I might call you bad, you poor mummy.
— from Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Copyright laws in most countries are in a constant state of change.
— from Perpetua. A Tale of Nimes in A.D. 213 by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

The fellow with broken limbs justly deserves your alms for his impotent condition; but he that cannot use his own reason, is in a much worse state; for you see him in miserable circumstances, with his remedy at the same time in his own possession, if he would or could use it.
— from The Tatler, Volume 1 by Steele, Richard, Sir

In most cases of consumption (some authorities give as high as eighty per cent), the upper lobes are the first to be affected.
— from Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. (Francis Marion) Walters

The certainty of the coming confession encourages me in my coldness and I remain mute, while my heart is beating with pity and excitement....
— from The Choice of Life by Georgette Leblanc

These chapels were built of logs and covered with the canvas, and were in many cases large enough to hold three hundred people.
— from Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

Even in memory come they here?
— from Poems by Elizabeth Stoddard

It must command; he, being what he is, must rebel.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle of St Paul to the Romans by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule

Ports: Anchorage, Baltimore, Beaumont, Boston, Charleston, Chicago, Cleveland, Duluth, Freeport, Galveston, Hampton Roads, Honolulu, Houston, Jacksonville, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Mobile, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Portland (Oregon), Richmond (California), San Francisco, Savannah, Seattle, Tampa, Wilmington Merchant marine: 385 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 12,567,000 GRT/19,511,000 DWT; includes 3 passenger-cargo, 36 cargo, 23 bulk, 169 tanker, 13 tanker tug-barge, 13 liquefied gas, 128 intermodal; in addition, there are 219 government-owned vessels Airports: total: 14,177 usable: 12,417 with permanent-surface runways: 4,820 with runways over 3,659 m: 63 with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 325 with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 2,524 Telecommunications: 126,000,000 telephone access lines; 7,557,000 cellular phone subscribers; broadcast stations - 4,987 AM, 4,932 FM, 1,092 TV; about 9,000 TV cable systems; 530,000,000 radio sets and 193,000,000 TV sets in use; 16 satellites and 24 ocean cable systems in use; satellite ground stations - 45 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT and 16 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT (1990) *United States, Defense Forces Branches: Department of the Army, Department of the Navy (including Marine Corps), Department of the Air Force Manpower availability: males age 15-49 66.826 million; fit for military service NA (1993 est.)
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

I had in my mind's eye a snug little apartment, situated somewhere in the attics, devoted chiefly to dressmaking operations, where I knew there was a mirror, and I might complete my toilet in peace.
— from The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton by Ian Hay