(?) When one does nothing else but while time away, it must of necessity often be a burden.
— 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.

In a poem named “Ligeia,” under which title he intended to personify the music of nature, our boy-poet gives us the following exquisite picture: Ligeia!
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

But when he quits this representation, this public will, and acts by his own private will, he degrades himself, and is but a single private person without power, and without will, that has any right to obedience; the members owing no obedience but to the public will of the society.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

he would now appease the ghosts of Hyrcanus and Mariamne, by taking vengeance on him; for that it was not fit for him to take the succession to the government from such a father without bloodshed: that many things happen every day to provoke him so to do, insomuch that he can say nothing at all, but it affords occasion for calumny against him; for that if any mention be made of nobility of birth, even in other cases, he is abused unjustly, while his father would say that nobody, to be sure, is of noble birth but Alexander, and that his father was inglorious for want of such nobility.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

After this it was quite decided to keep me and call me by my old name of “Black Beauty”.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

If the balance be even, and if the trade between the two places consist altogether in the exchange of their native commodities, they will, upon most occasions, not only both gain, but they will gain equally, or very nearly equally; each will, in this case, afford a market for a part of the surplus produce of the other; each will replace a capital which had been employed in raising and preparing for the market this part of the surplus produce of the other, and which had been distributed among, and given revenue and maintenance to, a certain number of its inhabitants.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The railroad companies suffer more from this piecemeal and conflicting regulation than do corporations engaged in manufacturing operations, not only because they discharge a peculiarly public function, but because their business, particularly in its rate-making aspect, suffers severely from any division by arbitrary geographical lines.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

To my boundless surprise I made out, not one, but three strange objects moving about swiftly in the air!
— from The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life by Homer Eon Flint

"They are men, good fellows of all kinds, rudely torn away from life; they are ignorant, not easily carried away, men of narrow outlook, but full of common sense which sometimes gets out of gear.
— from The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

And yet it was understood that the man was to have no new muscles, or nerves, or bones, to accomplish this with; but he was to use those he had, assisted, as they would be, by the gracious power of God.
— from Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk

The boy was made much of, not only by his mother, but by the whole French Court.
— from Henrietta Maria by Henrietta Haynes

No matter how often, I could not deliver my message, or note or borrowed salt without the greatest confusion.
— from Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee

They came upon his ear like the announcement of new misfortunes, of new obstacles between Lucy and himself.
— from Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Pi ó mb o négr o , blacke leade.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio