" "Do leave off those dismal strains," said the parrot; "sing something to make us laugh; laughter is the sign of the highest order of intellect.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Man Alexander tried many years ago to make us long-lived like you.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

This was the famous project of marching upon Leipsic, leaving Napoleon and Dresden on the flank, which would, if carried out, have proved fatal to the allies.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

The Sinking Fund's unfathomable sea, That most unliquidating liquid, leaves The debt unsunk, yet sinks all it receives.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

ANT: Superficial, indifferent, mild, uncritical, lenient, lax.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Let the courtiers fall out with these abominable breeches, that discover so much of those parts should be concealed; these great bellied doublets, that make us look like I know not what, and are so unfit to admit of arms; these long effeminate locks of hair; this foolish custom of kissing what we present to our equals, and our hands in saluting them, a ceremony in former times only due to princes.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In place of the simple spontaneous modes of behavior which enable the lower animals to live without education and without anxiety, men are compelled to supplement original nature with special training and with more and more elaborate machinery, until life, losing its spontaneity, seems in danger of losing all its joy.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It made us look like fools.
— from Dick Kent at Half-Way House by M. M. (Milo Milton) Oblinger

You know my uncle? LORD LOAM.
— from The Admirable Crichton by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Such jonkets among shall make us live long.
— from Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude

Unless I am greatly mistaken, that is my missing uncle, Lester Lawrence!"
— from Dave Porter At Bear Camp; Or, The Wild Man of Mirror Lake by Edward Stratemeyer

By these things, my friends—by being brought low and made helpless, till ashamed of ourselves, and weary of ourselves, we lift up eyes and heart to God who made us, like lost children crying after a Father—by these things, I say, we live, and in all these things is the life of our spirit.
— from Town and Country Sermons by Charles Kingsley

The left is the more usual lateral laceration ( Fig. 98 ), and in case of a bilateral tear the injury on the left side is usually the more extensive.
— from A Text-book of Diseases of Women by Charles B. (Charles Bingham) Penrose

The poet summed the matter rightly when he wrote:— [pg 77] “Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill and toil unwearyable, No moment and no movement unimproved, Laid line on line, on terrace terrace spread, To swell the heightening, brightening, gradual mound,
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 4 by Frederick Whymper

His work our mind is to illuminate With things divine, and to accommodate Us with those graces, which will us adorn, And make us look like men indeed new-born.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Action began when an advanced detachment of marines under Lieutenant Lucas with the Cuban guides had reached the summit of a ridge overlooking a small valley where there was a house, a well, and a thicket of some kind of shrub with great broad, oily leaves.
— from Wounds in the rain: War stories by Stephen Crane