Um das Leben zu erkennen, muss man sich vom Leben absondern —To know life, a man must separate himself from life.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

And when they swore to keep it secret, he told them, “My name is Sir Gareth of Orkney, my father was King Lot, and my mother the Lady Belisent, King Arthur’s sister.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Then his eye would turn to Jo so wistfully that she would have surely answered the mute inquiry if she had seen it; but Jo had her own eyes to take care of, and, feeling that they could not be 539 trusted, she prudently kept them on the little sock she was knitting, like a model maiden aunt.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

But Jo had her own eyes to take care of, and feeling that they could not be trusted, she prudently kept them on the little sock she was knitting, like a model maiden aunt.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

This first sad night of grief, I ween, Will do to death each sorrowing queen: Scarce is Kauśalyá left alive; My mother, too, can scarce survive.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

For a single moment her Majesty did, extraordinary to say, forget her usual caution, and you know, ladies, a moment may do much."
— from Old Court Life in France, vol. 2/2 by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot

The committee on the part of the House of Representatives comprised the following named gentlemen: Ohio, Charles H. Grosvenor; California, Julius Kahn; Connecticut, E. Stevens Henry; Delaware, L. Heister Ball; Illinois, Vespasian Warner; Indiana, James E. Watson; Iowa, Robert G. Cousins; Idaho, Thomas L. Glenn; Kansas, Justin D. Bowersock; Maine, Amos L. Allen; Maryland, George A. Pearre; Massachusetts, William C. Lovering; Michigan, William Alden Smith; Minnesota, Page Morris; Montana, Caldwell Edwards; Nebraska, Elmer J. Burkett; New Hampshire, Frank D. Currier; New Jersey, Richard Wayne Parker; New York, John H. Ketcham, North Dakota, Thomas F. Marshall; North Carolina, Spencer Blackburn; Oregon, Malcolm A. Moody; Pennsylvania, Marlin E. Olmsted; Rhode Island, Melville Bull; South Dakota, Eben W. Martin; Utah, George Sutherland; Vermont, Kittredge Haskins; Washington, Wesley L. Jones; West Virginia, Alston G. Dayton; Wisconsin, Herman B. Dahle; Wyoming, Frank W. Mondell; Alabama, Oscar W. Underwood; Arkansas, Hugh A. Dinsmore; Florida, Robert W. Davis; Georgia, William H. Fleming; Kentucky, James N. Kehoe; Louisiana, Adolph Meyer; Mississippi, Charles E. Hooker; Missouri, Champ Clark; South Carolina, W. Jasper Talbert; Tennessee, John A. Moon; Texas, John L. Sheppard; Virginia, James Hay; Colorado, John F. Shafroth; Nevada, Francis G. Newlands.
— from A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents by William McKinley

The lord deputy, in council, understood that 'many idle kerne, loose and masterless men, and other disordered persons, did range up and down in sundry parts of this kingdom, being armed with swords, targets, pikes, shot, head-pieces, horsemen's staves, and other warlike weapons, to the great terror of his majesty's well-disposed subjects, upon whom they had committed many extortions, murders, robberies, and other outrages.
— from The Land-War in Ireland: A History for the Times by James Godkin

ia Kahoolawe, Lanai, a me Molokai, oia ole like no.
— from The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai by S. N. Haleole

'No, nor that either,' replied Sponge, with a knowing look; 'a much more useful work
— from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees

They bade farewell to the kind laird and Mrs Maclean.
— from Norman Vallery; or, How to Overcome Evil with Good by William Henry Giles Kingston

It was night when the solitary ship reached the Piræus with the dreadful tidings; but they seemed to rush through the city, for everywhere there broke out a sound of weeping and wailing for husbands, fathers, brothers, and kinsmen lost, and men met together in the market-places to mourn and consult what could be done next.
— from Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge