If we consider how in both cases the transition from the pleasure to the horror of life was the occasion of it, this throws some light upon the remarkable fact that it is among the French, the most cheerful, gay, sensuous, and frivolous nation in Europe, that by far the strictest of all monastic orders, the Trappists, arose, was re-established by Rancé after its fall, and has maintained itself to the present day in all its purity and strictness, in spite of revolutions, Church reformations, and encroachments of infidelity.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

She herself must die, I say, or rather change and sleep till it be time for her to live again.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The federal department of agriculture in co-operation with schools of agriculture is making intensive studies of rural communities.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

With pity press'd, Me sole the daughter of the deep address'd; What time, with hunger pined, my absent mates Roam the wide isle in search of rural cates, Bait the barb'd steel, and from the fishy flood Appease the afflictive fierce desire of food."
— from The Odyssey by Homer

He ceased; and spurred by warlike pride The impetuous son of Raghu cried: “Soon shall mine arm with wrathful joy That city of the foe destroy.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

On the other hand, an innumerable series of rites, ceremonies and festive distributions, which one and all create all sorts of reciprocal obligations, take up the best part of the energy, attention and time of the natives for a period of a few months, or a couple of years according to the importance of the dead.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Many infants have been seen since that time, who in spite of receiving cod liver oil developed scurvy, and others in whom large doses of this oil failed to mitigate the scurvy, although it prevented rickets.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Sedulitas , 1. amat labores, fugit Ignaviam , semper est in opere , ut Formica , 2. & comportat, ut illa, sibi, omnium rerum Copiam , 3.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

Two independent sources of record could not be false in regard to such a matter as this.
— from The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by H. W. (Herbert William) Conn

The line of stepping-stones had been swept clean and beside the frost-fretted lake an irregular segment of rock, closely carved with ideographs, had been planted upright.
— from The Kingdom of Slender Swords by Hallie Erminie Rives

And, further, the idea of natural selection has so effectively opened the door of research and stimulated observation in a score of principal directions that, even if the Darwinian explanation became one day much less convincing than, in spite of recent criticism, it now is, yet its passing, supposing it to pass, would leave the doctrine of Evolution immeasurably and permanently strengthened.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

Martha was chief mover in all capable deeds, a warm, silent woman who called children "lamb," plied them with pears, and knew the inner secrets of rich cookery.
— from Country Neighbors by Alice Brown

It is such old, respectable college slang, mamma allows it once in a while), when I heard whispering and giggling in the hall outside.
— from Hildegarde's Harvest by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

If the eyebrows are thick and even, that is, without any or few starting hairs, the lady or gentleman will be of an agreeable temper, sound understanding and tolerable wit; moderately addicted to pleasure, fearful of giving offence, but intrepid and persevering in support of right; charitable and generous, sincere in their professions of love and friendship and enjoy a good constitution.
— from The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller Embracing full and correct rules of divination concerning dreams and visions, foretelling of future events, their scientific application to physiognomy, palmistry, moles, cards, &c.; together with the application and observance of talismen charms, spells and incantations. by A. H. Noe

Not knowing the man from Adam she spoke no untruth, but in spite of reiterated calls to come down to tea she remained in her bedroom until the loud-voiced guest had taken his departure.
— from Leonie of the Jungle by Joan Conquest

The amendment says, in speaking of religion, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress