For the struggling of a pair of lovers seems to us so much more important, delightful, and consequently justifiable than any other, as the species is more important than the individual.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

A species of louse peculiar to the human body; the male is denominated a cock, the female a hen.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Bound by a solemn vow I sware That all my saving help should share Who sought me in distress and cried, “Thou art my hope, and none beside.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

What I ask of you is reasonable and moderate; I demand a creature of another sex, but as hideous as myself; the gratification is small, but it is all that I can receive, and it shall content me.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

[Pg 114] dare; supraque idem medicamentum iniicere, donec ad cicatricem plaga perveniat (VII. xxviii).
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

I should, therefore, think that Adad, in its primitive sense, signified πρωτος , and πρωτευων : and, in a secondary meaning, it denoted a chief, or prince.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

Some money I do and can lay up, but not much, being worth now above L700, besides goods of all sorts.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It will help us in considering these questions to have a few simple terms of which the meaning is definite and clear.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Cosette often accompanied Jean Valjean on these visits to the poor, on which they recovered some remnants of their former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good one, and they had assisted many in distress, and cheered and warmed many little children, Cosette was rather merry in the evening.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Of course a will can have no being in the absence of realities or ideas marking its direction and contrasting the eventualities it seeks with those it flies from; and tendency, no less than movement, needs an organised medium to make it possible, while aspiration and fear involve an ideal world.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Yet he exerted not the slightest effort to please any one; on the contrary, he made it distinct and clear that he didn't care a rap what any one thought of him or, for that matter, of anybody or anything.
— from The Deluge by David Graham Phillips

Abide in me ' is doubtless a command; but it is supported by the other clause, ' and I in you .'
— from The Gospel of St. John: A Series of Discourses. New Edition by Frederick Denison Maurice

Mr. Kitterbell, quite regardless of his uncle’s nerves, had occupied himself for some ten minutes in describing a circle on the floor with one leg of the office-stool on which he was seated, keeping the other three up in the air, and holding fast on by the desk.
— from Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People by Charles Dickens

Silver gilt processional crosses of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, some almost Byzantine, some nearly Mudejar in design, abound; chalices of unimaginable richness in pure Gothic and Manueline styles, reliquaries in gold and gems beyond price, and gold and enamelled crowns and girdles, altar crosses, and candlesticks without number, are 254 displayed in cases in a suite of rooms commanding a fine view over the Tagus.
— from Through Portugal by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

We soon explored the pan or oasis which was almost circular in shape and about a mile in diameter, and completely encircled by dunes; most of them as barren and forbidding as those we had already passed through, though to the south there was a certain amount of vegetation.
— from A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari And Other Tales of South-West Africa by Frederick Carruthers Cornell

This is pastoral poetry of a new and refreshing kind—as unlike to the conventional shepherd-shepherdess mincing, intolerable dialogue as could well be imagined.
— from The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by William Lyon Phelps

Some of the people are playing bridge, Betty Mercer is doing a cake walk to the RHAPSODIE HONGROISE—Jim has no every-day music—and the telephone is ringing.
— from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Attention to the details of the process, though necessary in learning a skilled movement, is distracting and confusing after skill has been acquired.
— from Psychology: A Study Of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth

The cottage woollens are mostly made in Donegal and Connemara, while the art of embroidery is followed most extensively at Belfast, Dublin, Dalkey, Garryhill, Sligo, Strabane, and Ballintra.
— from Romantic Ireland; volume 1/2 by Blanche McManus

So many intricate details are connected with the subject of artificial flies, and with dry or floating flies particularly, that in order to reduce the discussion of the matter herein to a not inordinate length many points must of necessity be merely touched upon.
— from Fishing with Floating Flies by Samuel G. (Samuel Granger) Camp