Her nose alone is enough to make one faint.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

These were so called, either from the Greek ἔρις νοῦ , ‘the discord of the mind,’ or from ἐν τῇ ἔρα ναίειν , ‘their inhabiting the earth,’ watching the actions of men.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Its fashion, too, was of my own fantastic invention; for I was fastidious to an absurd degree of coxcombry, in matters of this frivolous nature.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

In references to special passages volumes have been marked off from pages by an inverted full stop, and lines or verses have been shown, where they follow other numerals , by small superior figures.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

The possessors enjoyed no other advantage from them than permission to subscribe at some future time to a new sail-cloth manufactory, projected by one who was then known to be a man of fortune, but who was afterwards involved in the peculation and punishment of the South-Sea directors.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

In reproducing intervals ourselves we try to make our feelings of this sort just what they were when we passively heard the interval.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

How warm, though, things like admiration and appreciation made one feel, how capable of really deserving them, how different, how glowing.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Spur-Rowels , or Spur-Revels , are to be met with under that name, but they are, and are more often termed, "mullets of five points pierced."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

A man knows neither ache nor pain if he gets hit while fighting for his money, or for his sheep or his cattle; and even so Antinous has hit me while in the service of my miserable belly, which is always getting people into trouble.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

We are fighting for time in which our scientists may learn the secrets of power—and fearing, each new day, that the enemy may have so perfected their systems of rays that they will be able to detect us and destroy us, even in our underground and heavily shielded retreats, by means of forces even more incomprehensible than those they are now employing.
— from Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

He is a large man of fine appearance and carries himself with the graceful mien of a brigadier-general; his eye is bright and kind, his voice gentle and agreeable, and we are the best of friends in a minute.
— from Nine Thousand Miles on a Pullman Train An Account of a Tour of Railroad Conductors from Philadelphia to the Pacific Coast and Return by Milton M. Shaw

This is my old friend, Mr. Blyth, whom I told you of.”
— from Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins

Bannister's gang, in league with town authorities, mean to lynch him and one of my other friends after dark this evening.
— from Wyoming: A Story of the Outdoor West by William MacLeod Raine

He can throw off a flash chaunt in the first style; and patter slang , better than most blades on the town:”— Come all you rolling kiddy boys, that in London does abound, If you wants to see a bit of life, go to the Bull in the Pound ; ’Tis there you’ll see Poll, Bet, and Sal, with many other Flames , And “pitch and hustle,” “ring the bull,” and lots of Fancy games.
— from The True History of Tom & Jerry or, The Day and Night Scenes, of Life in London from the Start to the Finish! by W. T. (William Thomas) Moncrieff

It came to her in a burst of inspiration that she would have two ministers: one for the long prayer, and one for the short prayer and the remarks.
— from A Village Stradivarius by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

To me, the highest uses of philosophy are, first, to free the mind of fear, and, second, to avert all the evil that can be averted, through intelligence—that is to say, through a knowledge of the conditions of well-being.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

The human race is formed by the mass of families who subsist almost entirely on the fruits of their own work, and this mass is the proper subject of history, not great men.
— from The Idea of Progress: An Inguiry into Its Origin and Growth by J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury

Perhaps the girl saw no man of a superior order to compare him with; but, as a matter of fact, she was perfectly satisfied with Montjoie.
— from Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant