179 , a great variety of little supplementary ornaments can be made, on every description of netted ground.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Thou shalt perceive the simple shows, the delicate miracles of earth, Dandelions, clover, the emerald grass, the early scents and flowers, The arbutus under foot, the willow's yellow-green, the blossoming plum and cherry; With these the robin, lark and thrush, singing their songs—the flitting bluebird; For such the scenes the annual play brings on.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Well, o’ course dat nigger want’ to keep me out er de business, bekase he says dey warn’t business ’nough for two banks, so he say I could put in my five dollars en he pay me thirty-five at de en’ er de year.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Hence on important occasions the behaviour of friends and relations at a distance is often regulated by a more or less elaborate code of rules, the neglect of which by the one set of persons would, it is supposed, entail misfortune or even death on the absent ones.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

It is equally evident, that the members of each department should be as little dependent as possible on those of the others, for the emoluments annexed to their offices.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Because an old woman cannot sing and cry at the same moment ... one emotion destroys another.
— 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.

While sacrificing hands upraise The chalice flowing to the brim Tell no more of enchanted days.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

For a man of evil desire cannot be slain by a woman; and the merit of my austerity would be lost if I were to launch a curse against thee.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

1217 —For the last century, two new tools, the capitation-tax and the vingtièmes, appear more effective, and yet are but little more so.—First of all, through a masterstroke of ecclesiastical diplomacy, the clergy diverts or weakens the blow.
— from The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte Taine

But all reasonable and truly scientific men are fast coming to the conclusion, that the deluge has had very little to do with the present configuration of the globe, and that it is doubtful whether any trace of its occurrence will ever be found in nature; so that, on the one hand, all the alarms and denunciations of misguided Christians on this subject might have been spared; and, on the other hand, if the hasty exultation of the infidel, in his supposed discovery of discrepancy between nature and Moses, had been suppressed until the subject was understood, he would not have experienced the mortification of entire defeat.
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

It was indeed a matter of extraordinary difficulty and nicety to determine at what precise period he should begin to disclose to his supporters the extent of the plans which he meditated.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 3 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville

Eugenists confine their work to the physical aspect of the subject and as a matter of expediency deal with the effects of marriage and race-propagation in their relation to disease and degeneracy, ignoring the esoteric phase of the subject.
— from Sex--The Unknown Quantity: The Spiritual Function of Sex by Alexander J. (Alexander James) McIvor-Tyndall

As time went on a few individuals, through some modification of environment, developed small spines or prominences.
— from Birds and All Nature, Vol. 7, No. 4, April 1900 by Various

The meeting at last ended, as all meetings on earth do.
— from From Wealth to Poverty; Or, the Tricks of the Traffic. A Story of the Drink Curse by Austin Potter

“Unique in that it follows the news as given in the daily papers upon a great variety of topics with only so much of editorial digestion as is required by brevity and the exclusion of extraneous and repetitious matter.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various