Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If n , the number of frogs, be even, we require ( n ²+ n ) / 2 moves, of which ( n ²- n ) / 2 will be leaps and n simple moves.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

not in this sort would they live their life, As now so much we see them, knowing not
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

You'll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty laborers, and not so much to drink either.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

Siya na lang ang nangamahan sa mga bátang ilu, He was the only one left to act as a father to the orphaned children.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Having been admitted into the garden by Mary, and having received from that lady sundry admonitions concerning the safety of his limbs and neck, Sam mounted into the pear-tree, to wait until Arabella should come into sight.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

A moment's reflection will, I am sure, convince you that a man with whom the secrets of a lady are not safe must be the most contemptible of wretches.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Les auteurs ne sont menacés que par ricochet.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Before giving the reader a summary of Sherman's great Atlanta campaign, which must conclude my description of the various co-operative movements preparatory to proceeding with that of the operations of the centre, I will briefly mention Sheridan's first raid upon Lee's communications which, though an incident of the operations on the main line and not specifically marked out in the original plan, attained in its brilliant execution and results all the proportions of an independent campaign.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

ften exhibit a spheroidal, and sometimes an imperfect columnar structure: their upper junctions are much more clearly defined than their lower junctions; but the latter are not so much blended into the underlying sedimentary beds as is the case in the eastern flank.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin

The ladies are not so mixed: next time, you must mix your ladies....”
— from The Later Life by Louis Couperus

Most of the moccasins were about three inches long, and none seemed more than five inches.
— from Jack Among the Indians; Or, A Boy's Summer on the Buffalo Plains by George Bird Grinnell

No, I never yet loved, and never shall, my heart is locked against that feeling; the men, with whom I have been acquainted, inspire me all with a feeling of dislike, many with one of pity, not to say contempt.
— from The Pictures; The Betrothing: Novels by Ludwig Tieck

In hwot sens kan it be kalld historikal speli[n] if the old pluralz ov mouse and louse , hwich wer mys and lys , ar nou speld mice and lice ?
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5 Miscellaneous Later Essays by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

I live at Naples, sir; my mother keeps The tavern where the sailors most resort.
— from Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 6 by Robert Bridges

Still it is very probable that among so large a number some may have made a report which, they are now aware, was not perfectly fair and honest.
— from The Teacher Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott

It was all very well to have no parleying with the enemy, but that did not mean one would be content to sit down quietly in sight of the enemy’s lines, and never so much as fire a shot; certainly not for an Irish Fusilier’s daughter.
— from Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing by Gertrude Page