n'y a pas non plus dégradation de la littérature mais déplacement… Par exemple un concert live de jazz ,écouté dans les arènes de Cimiez, n'est plus le même une fois enregistré, donc compressé, puis écouté dans une voiture qui file sur l'autoroute.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

One moment of untimely pride can make us for ever miserable, and how should a slave raised up to a throne not be tempted to abuse her power?
— from On Love by Stendhal

“Say, uh, but say, cap'n, Jake thought you'd be able to fix me up for eight or nine a bottle.” “
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Then was hee with all conuenient speed, by commandement, conuaied againe to the torment [pg 107] of the bootes, wherein hee continued a long time, and did abide so many blowes in them, that his legges were crushte and beaten togeather as small as might bee, and the bones and flesh so brused, that the bloud and marrowe spouted forth in great abundance, whereby they were made unseruiceable for euer.
— from Daemonologie. by King of England James I

ā-īdlian , -īdlan, -īdelian to be or make useless, frustrate, empty, annul , Æ, CP: profane : be free from : deprive ( of ).
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Caput eius Antigono refertur, qui victoria mitius usus filium eius Helenum 5 cum Epirotis sibi deditum in regnum remisit, eique insepulti patris ossa in patriam referenda tradidit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Reason resumes her Place after Imagination is cloyed; and I am, with the utmost Distress and Confusion, to behold my self the Cause of uneasie Reflections to you, to be visited by Stealth, and dwell for the future with the two Companions (the most unfit for each other in the World)
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Nothing is better than simplicity—nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

"A little sea-bathing would set me up for ever."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Some of the inhabitants had been here since we passed; and I apprehend, that on seeing our road through their country, they mistook us for enemies, and had therefore deserted the place, which is a most convenient station; as on one side, there is a great plenty of white fish, and trout, jub, carp, &c., and on the other abundance of salmon, and probably other fish.
— from Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. Vol. II by Alexander Mackenzie

Men, upon first entering into the service, are allowed the advance of two months wages, in order to provide necessaries: but this, inadequate as it is for a long voyage, is not extended to pressed men.
— from Observations on the Diseases of Seamen by Blane, Gilbert, Sir

However, I remembered her as soon as the anchor was dropped, and I went below and consoled her, and we had breakfast together, and she was allowed to "pour out," which quite made up for everything.
— from Dream Days by Kenneth Grahame

Probably no man under forty ever lost a woman without feeling in some degree compensated by a sense of freedom regained, and in the man of solitary and self-reliant nature, to whom freedom is a boon if not a necessity, this feeling is not slow to assert itself.
— from The Blood of the Conquerors by Harvey Fergusson

In the meantime the Christian army approach Jerusalem, which they reach at early dawn, and which they greet with deep emotion: The odorous air, morn's messenger, now spread Its wings to herald, in serenest skies, Aurora issuing forth, her radiant head Adorned with roses plucked in Paradise; When in full panoply the hosts arise, And loud and spreading murmurs upward fly, Ere yet the trumpet sings; its melodies They miss not long, the trumpet's tuneful cry Gives the command to march, shrill sounding to the sky.
— from Studies in the Poetry of Italy, Part II. Italian by Oscar Kuhns

"Yes, I have now seen her four times, and am sure that if I could but muster up funds enough for a Gretna-green trip,—for she has all the romance of a boarding-school girl,—I could carry her off this very night.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

Occasionally, when his mind became oppressed with excessive study he would go for a quiet walk along the hillside; but these occasions were few and far between, for he made up for every hour he spent away from his beloved books by still closer application to them in the hours that followed.
— from Chinese Folk-Lore Tales by J. (John) Macgowan

I’ve no more use for exciting sports.”
— from The Border Boys with the Mexican Rangers by John Henry Goldfrap

and then they think they can make up for everything by a few monkey tricks."
— from The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 by Stendhal