Curved Lines Curved lines have not the moral integrity of straight lines.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

" "Master, I obey," said the genie.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

And surely ( [6526] saith he) if one should but repeat the fopperies of mortal men, in their sacrifices, feasts, worshipping their gods, their rites and ceremonies, what they think of them, of their diet, houses, orders, &c., what prayers and vows they make; if one should but observe their absurdity and madness, he would burst out a laughing, and pity their folly.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

"Yes, we may, if our strength lasts as long," I cried, in a lamentable voice.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this which has excited so curious an interest in his life and character.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

It is something hotter and drier than Parsley, and more medicinal; it opens stoppings, provokes urine, helps digestion, expels wind, and warms a cold stomach: use them like grass roots.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

To eat of a baked apple some advice, or of a preserved quince, cuminseed prepared with meat instead of salt, to keep down fumes: not to study or to be intentive after meals. ℞.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Scott says here: "It may be necessary to inform the Southern reader that the heath on the Scottish moorlands is often set fire to, that the sheep may have the advantage of the young herbage produced, in room of the tough old heather plants.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Failing of our bliss that we be kindly ordained to, maketh us to long; true understanding and love, with sweet mind in our Saviour, graciously maketh us to trust.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

" "Imprudent people are often kind," said Mrs. Archer, as if the fact were scarcely an extenuation; and Mrs. van der Luyden murmured: "If only she had consulted some one—" "Ah, that she never did!"
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Others make fun of us, and pretend that we have been seized with a temporary attack of mild insanity, or spitefully point out some seducer.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It cannot, therefore, properly discharge its own, which, as a free member, independent of seat, is to squeeze and encourage the horse at will.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

The country was difficult of access, and artificially made incapable of supporting a host of invaders, but four great roads met near the city.
— from Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

He wished to show the world and the Great Queen of the East, who had just boasted of conquering, like death, even the most mighty, its own supremacy as man and victor.
— from Cleopatra — Complete by Georg Ebers

Within the lifetime of a man, indeed only sixty years ago, nothing but an untouched growth of wood was visible throughout this wide region, where there are now myriads of happy homesteads—(cheers,) and, while this remarkable result has been accomplished in so short a time, we see no diminution in the progress and prosperity of the Province.
— from Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Duke of

The alæ do not form a rectangular shoulder, the lower margin being regularly curved into the parietes; the upper margin is only slightly
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin