The individual is filled with the unqualified desire of preserving his life, and of keeping it free from all pain, under which is included all want and privation.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Luther had been known in France for a much longer time than Zwingle; yet Farel decided in favour of the latter.
— from History of the Great Reformation, Volume 4 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

Afterwards the new Religious sat in the parlor of the grille, or "speak-room," and the witnesses kept it full for a long time, as in succession they went to talk to her where she sat behind the grille.
— from Mariquita: A Novel by John Ayscough

Godfrey paused, breathless, with one arm round a horizontal branch to rest himself a little and listen; but all was still, and, untying the rope from about his waist, he passed it round the tree, a comparatively easy task now, for, embracing the trunk, his hands touched, and directly after he was hauling upon the rope, had drawn it tight, so tight that it was pretty well horizontal, when, passing it round the trunk again, he knotted it firmly, forming a spider line ready for him to creep along to his sanctuary in the roof.
— from The New Forest Spy by George Manville Fenn

Though if I had known that you could handle a gun as well as you can rudder and halyards--and yet I might have known it, for fishing and shooting and--something else besides--go together, like sitting by the stove and sleeping.
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

Hard water is also much to be preferred to 368.png 355 soft in brewing stock beers; since by its rendering the albuminous matters contained in the mash insoluble, it prevents the fermentation to which these would otherwise give rise, and so assists in the preservation of the beer, and in keeping it free from acidity.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Quixote is a Character, wherein Humour and Ridicule are finely interwoven;--It is not a Subject of Satire, as the Knight is free from all Badness of Heart, and Immorality; Nor properly of Raillery, his Adventures in general being too gross and disastrous ;-- The Humour appears, in the Representation of a Person in real Life, fancying himself to be, under the most solemn Obligations to attempt hardy Atchievements; and upon this Whimsy immediately pursuing the most romantic Adventures, with great Gravity, Importance, 39 and Self-sufficiency; To heighten your Mirth, the hardy Atchievements to be accomplish'd by this Hero, are wittily contrasted by his own meagre weak Figure, and the desperate Unfierceness of his Steed Rozinante ;--The Ridicule appears in the strange Absurdity of the Attempts, upon which the Knight chuses to exercise his Prowess; Its Poignancy is highly quicken'd, and consequently the Pleasure it gives you, by his miserable Disasters, and the doleful Mortifications of all his Importance and
— from An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) by Corbyn Morris

This archetypal doctrine of Goethe, coupled, as he couples it, with the influences of environment, or necessary external conditions, with typical modifications only, while it entirely harmonizes with the Bible genesis of types (everything modeled after its kind), is far from aiding, or in any way abetting, the materialistic hypothesis of Haeckel, unless we make nature at once the creator and modifier of her own archetype.
— from Life: Its True Genesis by Horatius Flaccus

One wore boots, the other black spatter-dashes that came above the knee in French fashion, and were fastened under it, too, with leather straps.
— from The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The more lining and stuffing there are, the more waste matter fills the air and settles continually as dust; the more elaborate the home, the more labour is required to keep it fit for a healthy animal to live in; the more labour required, the greater the wear and tear on both the heads of the family.
— from The home: its work and influence by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

CXX "What, Paul, and are my pains thus thrown away, My lessons end in loss?" at length fall slow The pitying syllables, her lips allay The satire of by keeping in full flow, Above their coral reef, bright smiles at play: "Can it be, Paul thus fails to rightly know
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning