Mrs. Babbitt preferred the pictures in which handsome young women in elaborate frocks moved through sets ticketed as the drawing-rooms of New York millionaires.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Here the means are made to stand against the end—the "unholy," absurd, and, above all, disagreeable means: how can the end be any use when it requires such means?
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He however enabled me to see you more than once.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

[86] MALLOWS MALVAS THE SMALLER MALLOWS [are prepared] WITH GARUM
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

I know one or two Secretaries of Legation who will, at their return, be able to tender me their services.
— from On Love by Stendhal

"He can only move two squares, but makes up in the quality of his locomotion for its quantity, for he can spring one square sideways and one forward simultaneously, like a cat; can stand on one leg in the middle of the board and jump to any one of eight squares he chooses; can get on one side of a fence and blackguard three or four men on the other; has an objectionable way of inserting himself in safe places where he can scare the king and compel him to move, and then gobble a queen.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Odours strange and musty, The air sharp and dusty With lime and with sand, That no one can stand, Make the street impassable, The people irascible, Until every one cries, As he trembling goes With the sight of his eyes And the scent of his nose Quite stopped—or at least much diminished— "Gracious!
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

The daylight's long enough for me to stare i' the booke as I canna read.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

But the Jew shuts up shop; will not touch copper or bronze money at all; soils his fingers with nothing meaner than silver and gold; attends the synagogue devoutly; will not cook or have anything to do with fire; and religiously refrains from embarking in any enterprise.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

I counted 120 figures, but no two people have ever been known to make the same number.
— from Newfoundland to Cochin China By the Golden Wave, New Nippon, and the Forbidden City by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

Those that will not allow it to be deriv'd from the Grecians , but entirely Roman , maintain, that Satira should be writ with an i , not a y ; and that it is not deriv'd from Satyrus , but Satur ; [Pg 220] Satira , therefore, is the same as Satura , as Maximus anciently Maxumus .
— from Lectures on Poetry Read in the Schools of Natural Philosophy at Oxford by Joseph Trapp

only,'—and here I stopped, for mother was looking, and I never would tell her how much it had cost me; though she had tried fifty times to find out.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

A blast on one's own horn produces much the sound of the bray of an ass.
— from A Pilgrim Maid: A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Marion Ames Taggart

"Trust to me," replied Sir Cat, "I have my trusty staff.
— from The Jumble Book: A Jumble of Good Things by David Cory

Amid these scenes of varied beauty where creation appears so lovely we may truly say, "* * *
— from Gleanings by the Way by John A. (John Alonzo) Clark

If Probability is a science of real inference about things, it must surely lead up to something more than such merely formal conclusions; we must be able, if not by means of it, at any rate by some means, to step beyond the limits of what has been actually observed, and to draw conclusions about what is as yet unobserved.
— from The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics by John Venn

They realized their peril at last; but, before they could make a move to save themselves, they went over.
— from Frank Merriwell's Chums by Burt L. Standish