Oh, sleep that dreams, and dream that never tires, press from the petals of the lotus flower something of this to keep, the essence of an hour.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Certo non la francesca si` d'assai!>>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

[A2S] look for s.t. one wants to obtain but is not easy to find.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The most truly gentlemanly man is he who is the most unselfish, so I would say in the words of the Rev. J. A. James: “Live for some purpose in the world.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

] Note 43 ( return ) [ We may learn from Seneca (epist. cxxiii.)
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Therefore, apart from the energy which creates the Army, a work which is not always done by the General, there is no more imperative and no simpler law for Strategy than to KEEP THE FORCES CONCENTRATED.—No portion is to be separated from the main body unless called away by some urgent necessity.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

The first was Joan Stacey, the sister of the dead woman—evidently she had been upstairs in the temporary temple of Apollo; the second was the priest of Apollo himself, his litany finished, sweeping down the empty stairs in utter magnificence—something in his white robes, beard and parted hair had the look of Dore’s Christ leaving the Pretorium; the third was Flambeau, black browed and somewhat bewildered.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

“That one too, near the twig,” she pointed out to little Masha a little fungus, split in half across its rosy cap by the dry grass from under which it thrust itself.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The little fellow stopped again, beginning to whimper.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

He lay for some weeks in a state of passive weakness; and at last Mrs. Wordsworth said to him, "William, you are going to Dora."
— from Wordsworth by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers

A month ago I received a letter from Segovia which said, "Come back to us."
— from Spain, v. 2 (of 2) by Edmondo De Amicis

Head very large, flattened, somewhat resembling the Drumheads; outer leaves very few, succulent, and tender; stalk short; quality tender, mild, and well flavored.
— from The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr

Madame, in her mind, was able to trace every movement of the Royalist army on its march from Mortain to Tinchebrai, to Domfront, to Sourdeval, to La Frontenay; she reckoned the hours and counted the minutes, ere she could assume with any certainty that Laurent had reached Domfront, M. de Courson, Mortain, and that de Puisaye had arrived at the factories.
— from A Sheaf of Bluebells by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

And then he says, which I wonder at, that I should not in all this time see, that Moorefields have houses two stories high in them, and paved streets, the City having let leases for seven years, which he do conclude will be very much to the hindering the building of the City; but it was considered that the streets cannot be passable in London till a whole street be built; and several that had got ground of the City for charity, to build sheds on, had got the trick presently to sell that for L60, which did not cost them L20 to put up; and so the City, being very poor in stock, thought it as good to do it themselves, and therefore let leases for seven years of the ground in Moorefields; and a good deal of this money, thus advanced, hath been employed for the enabling them to find some money for Commissioner Taylor, and Sir W. Batten, towards the charge of "The Loyall London," or else, it is feared, it had never been paid.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

He is not forbidden—nobody can forbid him—from showing any natural wonder, or any creature indeed, were it even a common rat; and if he receives six cents for the view of his striped pig, and gives his visitors some liquor for nothing, why, he doesn't sell his brandy, and consequently need not pay for a licence for so doing."
— from The wanderings and fortunes of some German emigrants by Friedrich Gerstäcker

The Lydons had often been mentioned in her presence, and, from a hint or two let fall, she had gathered that Isabel was engaged to some baronet in the neighbourhood; but she had not heard his name, which came to her now as a surprise, while the fact of his being in company with the daughter of the house, and the satisfied look upon the father’s countenance, left no doubt in her mind that this was the suitor of his choice.
— from Nurse Elisia by George Manville Fenn

"Come, hurry, or you'll be late for school!" "Oh, I guess we have time enough," spoke Flop, as he looked around for the football he and his brother had been playing with.
— from Curly and Floppy Twistytail (The Funny Piggie Boys) by Howard Roger Garis

So at last father said, “Let the boy go, it may do him good and teach him self-reliance.”
— from Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed