always living!) and leave the corpses behind. H2 anchor To One Shortly to Die From all the rest I single out you, having a message for you, You are to die—let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate, I am exact and merciless, but I love you—there is no escape for you.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

In this work the word pleroma occurs with tolerable frequency; but its meaning is not easily fixed.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

In this quandary, he appealed to his goddess mother Amba Bhavani, who took pity on him, and presented him with her husband the god Parameswara’s drum with the blessing ‘My son, there is nothing else for you but this.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

All this and much more seems to us quite natural, so potent is the art of the dramatist; but it confounds us with a feeling, such as we experience in the Oedipus Tyrannus , that for these star-crossed mortals—both δυσδαίμονες —there is no escape from fate, and even with a feeling, absent from that play, that fate has taken sides with villainy.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

He has indeed one good quality: he is not exceptious, for he so passionately affects the reputation of understanding raillery that he will construe an affront into a jest, and call downright rudeness and ill language satire and fire.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

False sentiment is found in the Lyric and Elegiac poets; and in mythology 'the greatest of the Gods' (Rep.) is not exempt from evil imputations.
— from Symposium by Plato

In Isocr. Trapez. § 8 the word is now expunged from the text on the authority of the MSS .
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

My children certainly belonged to me; but though Dr. Flint had incurred no expense for their support, he had received a large sum of money for them.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

By Allah, there is no escape for you save in valour and resolution."
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

[Pg 420] In the first moment of combustion the air, being heated, rarifies, and the mercury descends; but when, as in combustions of phosphorus and iron, no elastic fluid is formed, absorption becomes presently very sensible, and the mercury rises high into the jar.
— from Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries by Antoine Laurent Lavoisier

It is not very easy to find just such a home as you want, but I should consider the sum you offer is sufficient to induce many Englishmen living here to take him; but it is not everyone from whom he would learn English, as you would wish him to do, or who could teach him the manners of white officers.
— from At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

It is not easy for a man to hold to this position, for a very little reflection seems to make it untenable; but it is theoretically possible for one to take it, and probably many persons have inclined to the view when they have first been tempted to believe that the mind perceives directly only its ideas.
— from An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton

The great secret of the woollen manufactory is in the sorting of the wool, and if this is not particularly attended to; that is to say, if the different kinds of wool of various qualities which each fleece naturally contains, are not carefully separated; and if each kind of wool is not employed for that purpose, and FOR THAT ALONE, for which it is best calculated, no woollen manufactory can possibly subsist with advantages.
— from Essays; Political, Economical, and Philosophical — Volume 1 by Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von

The material side of life is not encouraging for him, and the worst of it is all this psychology is too much for him.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

What sufferings have I not endured for your sake!
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

You see it is not enough for the gift to be "good"—it must be "perfect," and that means abundant.
— from In Times Like These by Nellie L. McClung

This supposition is the more plausible, inasmuch as, if not expressly favored by the text, the latter is not contrary to it.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 03 by Voltaire

"I guess there is nothing else for it," said he.
— from The Valley of Gold: A Tale of the Saskatchewan by David Howarth