But, let me repeat, we do not, on that account, wish to be more virtuous than others, Pascal, for instance, wished to risk nothing, and remained a Christian.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Experience is not a rigid and closed thing; it is vital, and hence growing.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Our manner of figuring is a sort of perfected arithmetical shorthand, a system devised to enable us to manipulate numbers as rapidly and correctly as possible by means of symbols.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Then something happened so hideous and so soon over that Pyotr Stepanovitch could never afterwards recover a coherent impression of it.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In firing at short range, the trajectory is not as rigid as could be desired, the parabola is exaggerated, the line of the projectile is no longer sufficiently rectilinear to allow of its striking intervening objects, which is, nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases with the proximity of the enemy and the precipitation of the discharge.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

before, from; for Rhaca, n. a spectacle, a show Rhacai, Rhacan, n. a rake Rhacanad, n. a raking Rhacanu, v. to rake Rhaciant, n. advancement Rhacio, v. to come forward Rhaco, adv. yonder, there Rhach, n. what is forced out Rhad, n. grace, favour Rhad, a. free, gratis; cheap Rhadfawr, a. gracious; virtuous Rhadferth, a. beneficent Rhadferthwch, n. beneficence Rhadforedd, n. graciousness Rhadlon, a. gracious, kind Rhadlonaeth, Rhadlondeb, n. graciousness Rhadloni, v. to be gracious Rhadrodd, n. free gift Rhadu, v. to render free Rhadwehyn, a. grace diffusing Rhadd, n. advance, going on Rhae, n. constraint; battle Rhael, n. bent, inclination Rhaf, n. a spread, a diffusion Rhafnwydd, n. buckthorns Rhafol, n. service tree berries Rhafon, n. berries growing in clusters; service tree berries Rhafu, v. to spread, to diffuse Rhaff, n. a rope, a cord Rhaffan, n. a rope Rhaffio, v. to rope, to make a rope Rhag, n. a front, a van; an entrance: prep.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

I exclaimed, “you are the possessor of this knife, and you are not as rich as Croesus?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

See WRTH Ws, n. action; effort; ardour Wsg, n. what separates Wst, n. a thrust, a push; a gust Wt, n. what is extreme or out: n. light grain of corn Wttre, n. a lane, a bye road Wttres, n. a revel, a carousal Wttresiad, n. a carousing Wttresol, a. revelling, carousing Wttresu, v. to revel, to carouse Wth, n. what expands Wy, n. what is produced; an egg: pron.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

from side to side Trothi, n. a passing through Trothwy, n. a threshold Trotiwr, n. one who trots Trowynt, n. a whirlwind Tru, n. an outcast state Truan, a. wretched, miserable Truanedd, n. wretchedness Truanes, n. a wretched female Truanu, v. to commiserate Trueinind, n. a becoming wretched; a wretched one Trueni, n. wretchedness; pity Truenus, a. wretched, piteous Truenusedd, n. piteousness Trugar, a. compassionate Trugarâd, n. commiseration Trugarâu, v. to commiserate Trugaredd, n. mercy, pity Trugareddfa, n. mercy-seat Trugareddol, a. merciful Trugarog, a. merciful, pitying Trugarogrwydd, n. mercifulness Trul, n. drilling tool Truliad, n. a drilling Trulio, v. to drill a hole Trull, n. store; store of liquor Trulliad, n. a butler Trulliadaeth, n. butlership Trullio, v. to draw liquor Trum, n. a ridge, a back Truman, n. a ridge, a cope Trumbeithin, n. ridge tiles Trnmbren, n. a keel Trumiad, n. a ridging; a copying Trumiog, a. ridged, coped Trus, n. a ward, a guard Trusi, n. what is a guard Trusiad, n. a ward, a bulwark Trusio, v. to ward, to guard Truth, a. wheedling, fawning Truthad, n. a wheedling Truthan, n. a wheedler Truthiad, n. a sycophant, a flatterer Truthio, v. to weedle Trw, n. a whirl; a pervasion: prep.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

A submarine must be able to float or submerge in fresh water as well as at sea; for her base or harbour will often be in the mouth of a river, or she may have to navigate a river, a canal, or a lake.
— from Submarine and Anti-submarine by Newbolt, Henry John, Sir

Respect for age, for truth, for unprotected women, and for nature (as regards avoiding certain unnatural vices) are alone spoken of, in addition to taboos which have no relation to developed morality.
— from Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

For if all things are effects they are "possible existents" as regards their own nature, and require a cause which will make them exist rather than not.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

Stale cake of any kind may be used instead of bread; and ginger bread also is particularly nice, adding raisins and citron, and spreading a layer of jelly on the pudding before putting on the icing.
— from The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; the Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc. by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum

Say what we may of its fanaticism, laugh as we may at its extravagant enjoyment of newly acquired religious and civil liberty, who shall now venture to deny that it was the golden age of England?
— from Old Portraits and Modern Sketches Part 1 from Volume VI of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

Big Chief nodded and ran after Cassowary and Champ, who were whistling "O Canada" together as they strolled down to the boat.
— from Bonnie Prince Fetlar: The Story of a Pony and His Friends by Marshall Saunders

Actually they’d been throwing nuggets at rabbits and couldn’t believe their eyes when they saw miners exchange the same stuff for food and clothing at the store.
— from Loafing Along Death Valley Trails: A Personal Narrative of People and Places by William Caruthers

Gerfaut soon noticed a rather animated conversation taking place between Madame de Bergenheim, who was somewhat embarrassed as to how to amuse her guests for the remainder of the afternoon, and Marillac, who, with his accustomed enthusiasm, had constituted himself master of ceremonies.
— from Gerfaut — Volume 2 by Charles de Bernard

One night after renting a cabin, Grant came out of the office and said, "There's a couple that won't stay long, I'll bet a horned toad.
— from Four and Twenty Beds by Nancy Casteel Vogel