On the other hand, mere sexual instinct is base, because, without individuation, it is directed to all, and strives to preserve the species merely as regards quantity with little regard for quality.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

He lives in this part of Lothian; but was gone to the North, on a visit—You have often heard me mention this nobleman, whom I have long revered for his humanity and universal intelligence, over and above the entertainment arising from originality of his character—At Musselburgh, however, I had the good-fortune to drink tea with my old friend Mr Cardonel; and at his house I met with Dr C—, the parson of the parish, whose humour and conversation inflamed me with a desire of being better acquainted with his person—I am not at all surprised that these Scots make their way in every quarter of the globe.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

after Brackfast (which we made on the ribs of a Buck killed yesterday), I wrote a note informing Capt Lewis the rout I intended to take, and proeeded on up the main North fork thro a vallie, the day verry hot about 6 or 8 miles up the North fork a Small rapid river falls in on the Lard Side which affords a great Deel of water and appears to head in the Snow mountains to the S W. this little river falls into the Missouri by three mouthes, haveing Seperated after it arrives in the river Bottoms, and Contains as also all the water courses in this quarter emence number of Beaver & orter maney thousand enhabit the river & Creeks near the 3 forks (Pholosiphie's River)—We Campd on the Same Side we assended Starboard 20 miles on a direct line up the N. fork.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

By dint of striving after a mode of parlance different from the vulgar, they will arrive at a sort of aristocratic jargon, which is hardly less remote from pure language than is the coarse dialect of the people.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The tramp bJlinked guiltily, wiped the tiny drops of sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, drew a deep breath as though he had just leapt out of a very hot bath, then wiped his forehead with the other sleeve and looked round fearfully.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Scattered through a wide literature, ranging from official inquiries to works of fiction, there are, in occasional paragraphs, pages, and chapters, observations of value.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It was noted by Lieutenant R. F. Burton 6 that, in some hamlets, the Kotas of the Nīlgiris have set up curiously carved stones, which they consider sacred, and attribute to them the power of curing diseases, if the member affected is rubbed against them.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

There is so little real friendship in the world!
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

" We live ridiculously for fear of being thought ridiculous.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

‘Are you not lately returned from London?’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

In addition the new vote left room for a slight actual expansion—consisting of a number of retired officers and a quota of artisan and other skilled ratings to be forthwith raised.
— from The Fleets at War by Archibald Hurd

Just as he turned the corner below me, the alarm bells struck the last round for the Seventh District.
— from Round the Block: An American Novel by John Bell Bouton

Stephen R. Gilkyson; 7th N. J., Col. Louis R. Francine, Maj. Frederick Cooper; 8th N. J., Col. John Ramsey, Capt, John G. Langston; 115th Pa., Maj. John P. Dunne.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

But we are told that Governor Fletcher, who ruled over Connecticut after Andros, had so little respect for its charter that he once went to Hartford to assume command over the militia there.
— from The Story of the Thirteen Colonies by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

He turned white to the lips, ran for the fence, vaulted it and disappeared.
— from The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

He tried to follow her, for pangs of hunger were gnawing him, but his leg remained far too lame and stiff to travel upon, and so with a snarl of baffled rage he watched his mate slip off through the dark pines.
— from The Three Bears of Porcupine Ridge by Jean M. (Jean May) Thompson

Neither our situation nor our institutions require or permit the maintenance of a large regular force.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

She appeared nervous, I thought, and as though she had but lately recovered from a severe illness.
— from Airy Fairy Lilian by Duchess

These doe not onely liue rente free, but also haue a certaine of graine allowed them at the kinges allowaunce.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Richard Hakluyt

Little Rhymes for Little Folks.
— from The Monkey's Frolic: A Humorous Tale, in Verse by Anonymous