She is frequently mentioned in Malay invocations connected with rice-planting; vide p. 89, supra , and App.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having perceived it.
— 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.

This unhappy boy who has run away from his friends and his occupation—’ ‘And whose appearance,’ interposed his sister, directing general attention to me in my indefinable costume, ‘is perfectly scandalous and disgraceful.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

However curious it may seem for an oil-ship to be borrowing oil on the whale-ground, and however much it may invertedly contradict the old proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle, yet sometimes such a thing really happens; and in the present case Captain Derick De Deer did indubitably conduct a lamp-feeder as Flask did declare.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

In nearly the same words as the Rosicrucians applied to their founders, he has been called the discoverer of the secret which brings man into more intimate connexion with his Creator, the deliverer of the soul from the debasing trammels of the flesh, the man who enables us to set time at defiance, and conquer the obstructions of space.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

There is more, citizens, and it is the climax of abomination: if any mistake is made in commerce between Jews, they are ordered to make reparation; but if on 100 louis a Christian should have paid 25 too much, one is not bound to return them to him.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

But manhood is melted into curtsies, valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules, that only tells a lie and swears it.
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

Metus inquam mortis, infamiae cruciatus, sunt ille utrices furiae quae tyrannos exagitant, &c. Multo acerbius sauciant et pungunt, quam crudeles domini servos vinctos fustibus ac tormentis exulcerare possunt.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

the more thy hot valour abounds, the more intently must I counsel, and weigh fearfully what may befall.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Warburton found my mother its most interesting citizen, while it disapproved of her entirely.
— from Cinderella Jane by Marjorie Benton Cooke

"The water of life," she cries, "with which every mouth is moistened, is corruption to me, the water that is by me corrupteth me.
— from The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology by Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) Weigall

Let me in, Mr. Inspector." "Come," for he still delayed and doubted, "let me in somehow.
— from The Gates Between by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Love between woman and man is mutual; is continual giving.
— from The Truth About Woman by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

The first man out of the four that's mowing Is mine, I claim him once and for all; Though it's sorry I am, on his young feet, knowing None of the trouble he's led to stall.
— from Look! We Have Come Through! by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

For all these reasons, many conservative lawyers in the East, at least, would not permit their clients to invest their money in mortgages in California, Minnesota, Washington, or the other States indulging in such legislation, and partly for this reason the rate of interest prevailing in mortgages is very much higher in the far West than it is in States east of the Missouri River.
— from Popular Law-making A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute by Frederic Jesup Stimson

Indiscriminate charity salves the conscience just as well as the other kind, and though it costs as much in money, it costs less in trouble.
— from Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People by Arnold Bennett