Has virtue, as an end, in the strict sense of the word, not always been opposed to happiness hitherto?
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Away they all went, twenty couple at once; hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them!
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

But the blows fell now only on the outer man, and not, as before, on the heart.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

"There's not a finer fellow in the service," Osborne said, "nor a better officer, though he is not an Adonis, certainly."
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

"she is certainly not a bit older than her rivals, and has no grey hairs, as some of those who consort with Baccho have.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Away they all went, twenty couple at once; hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them!
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

De Ruyter dares not come on shore for fear of the people; nor any body open their houses or shops for fear of the tumult: which is a every good hearing. 5th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Probably the saying of Theodoras, the tragic actor, was not a bad one: That he would permit no one, not even the meanest actor, to go upon the stage before him, that he might first engage the ear of the audience.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

Wermund, declaring that he had performed his mission nobly and bravely, ordered that he should take some little refreshment of the banquet, since "far-faring ever hurt fasters."
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

nch as being only two hundred meters away and that it was uncanny not to see them.
— from Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany by Edward Lyell Fox

The upper part of the plumage is dark grey; the nape and back of the head reddish yellow, delicately marked with tiny black and white streaks; the under side deep reddish yellow, spotted with brown and white; the long feathers upon the face are either entirely of uniform reddish white, or become gradually lighter towards the tip; the quills are rust red upon the inner and whitish upon the outer web, spotted and striped three or four times with dark brown; the reddish yellow tail-feathers are striped with black, and have a broad dark grey patch, mottled with white at the extremity; the beak and cere are reddish white; the bare portions of the foot blueish grey, and the eye dark brown.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 2 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

Away they all went, twenty couple at once, hands half round and back again the other way; down the middle and up again; round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always turning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them.
— from A Christmas Carol The original manuscript by Charles Dickens

I remember that at one of the revivals of Shakespearian plays at the Lyceum, a gentleman leaving the theatre was heard to express the opinion that the play was not a bad one; that he thought it might have a tolerable run, but that it would be very much improved if it had not contained so many quotations.
— from Henry Irving's Impressions of America Narrated in a Series of Sketches, Chronicles, and Conversations by Joseph Hatton

When my mother went out for the first time, she held up her hands and exclaimed at the noise and bustle of the High Street—the soldiers who were for ever marching to and fro in companies with drums and pipes, the lasses that went hither and thither with a shawl about their heads, and bandied compliments—and such compliments—with swashbucklers and rantipole 'prentice lads.
— from The Grey Man by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

[24] The nape and back of the head are black, but the forehead is marked by a large white spot.
— from The Black Moose in Pennsylvania by Henry W. Shoemaker

[50] In many Dioceses now a body of trustees has been appointed for the special purpose of holding Church properties.
— from Churchwardens' Manual their duties, powers, rights, and privilages by George Henry Sumner