In man CREATURE and CREATOR are united: in man there is not only matter, shred, excess, clay, mire, folly, chaos; but there is also the creator, the sculptor, the hardness of the hammer, the divinity of the spectator, and the seventh day—do ye understand this contrast?
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
And for-thy if it happe in any wyse, That here be any lovere in this place 30 That herkneth, as the storie wol devyse, How Troilus com to his lady grace, And thenketh, so nolde I nat love purchace, Or wondreth on his speche or his doinge, I noot; but it is me no wonderinge; 35 For every wight which that to Rome went, Halt nat o path, or alwey o manere; Eek in som lond were al the gamen shent, If that they ferde in love as men don here, As thus, in open doing or in chere, 40 In visitinge, in forme, or seyde hire sawes; For-thy men seyn, ech contree hath his lawes.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
And Supplementary Account of Her Education, Including Passages from the Reports and Letters of her Teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, By John Albert Macy Special Edition CONTAINING ADDITIONAL CHAPTERS BY HELEN KELLER To ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Who has taught the deaf to speak and enabled the listening ear to hear speech from the Atlantic to the Rockies, I dedicate this Story of My Life.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller
'Lord bless my soul, Eugene!' cried Lightwood, laughing again, 'what a mad fellow you are!
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
“If you entertained any hopes from that circumstance,” rejoined Alice, “that those whom you pursue would ever deliver themselves up for my redemption, believe me, they were idle; for I had taken care to prevent the knowledge of my situation ever coming to their ears.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 6, June 1850 by Various
The middle segments each contain two bones, the radius and ulna in the case of the fore-arm, and the tibia and fibula in the case of the shin.
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds
Nay, my servant Epaminondas coming in, I seized him by the leg and would have worried him, had he not run roaring out of the chamber; and my sister Ann coming to the door, I flew at her with such ferocity that she was fain to escape down stairs.
— from Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Robert Montgomery Bird
"Yes! and might be made more so," Eugene continued.
— from Mary Seaham: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3 by Mrs. (Elizabeth Caroline) Grey
(Pathways to modern mathematics series) Eastman color.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
And the daughter of the house did in fact give me some excellent cabbage soup, with some capital meat with roast potatoes and cucumbers.
— from Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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