I have not quite finished the third act; and as there is no extra ballet, but only an appropriate divertissement in the opera, I have the honor to write that music also, but I am glad of it, for now the music will be all by the same master.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In fact, this nearly exact balancing between the supply of sediment and the amount of subsidence is probably a rare contingency; for it has been observed by more than one palaeontologist, that very thick deposits are usually barren of organic remains, except near their upper or lower limits.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Wertpapiere unlisted securities nicht zustellbar undeliverable nicht zweckgebunden uncommitted Nichtakzeptierung non-acceptance Nichtannahme non-acceptance Nichtannahme eines Auftrags refusal of an order nichtanwendbar non-applicable nichtausgegebene Aktien unissued stock Nichtauslieferung non-delivery Nichtbeachtung non-observance Nichtbefolgung des Verfahrens failure to follow the procedures nichteigene Mittel capital from outside sources Nichteinhaltung einer Bedingung breach of condition Nichteinhaltung von Bedingungen breach of condition
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

I had not favored even that intoxicating voluptuousness with which my mind was richly stored, and which, for want of an object, was always compressed, and never exhaled but by signs.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Yet, had any one hinted to him, ever so distantly, that what was taking place in his soul could ever have been possible, he would have denied it with a contemptuous laugh and a cynical imprecation, seeing that, though a great devotee of feminine society and feminine beauty, he looked upon love in the ideal, the "romantic" (to use his own term) aspect as unpardonable folly, and upon the sentiment of chivalry as a sort of aberration or malady which moved him frequently to express his astonishment that Toggenburg and his Minnesingers and troubadours never ended by being clapped in a madhouse.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

We see, indeed, that our ordinary days have no evening but by the setting, and no morning but by the rising, of the sun; but the first three days of all were passed without sun, since it is reported to have been made on the fourth day.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

By him, heaven, earth, and sea, and every living creature was formed: and nothing existed but by his divine will.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Here, it will be observed, the fighting instinct of the individual has not been obliterated; it has not even been bound with chains; but its modes of expression have been altered to have racial significance, and to have so great a significance in this new relation that reversion to its primary form of expression
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

A few cuts of fishes were engraved, chiefly by his pupils; that of the John Dory, an impression of which is said to have been sold for a considerable sum, is one of those not engraved by Bewick himself.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

New Eclectic , by B. Jerrold, vol. 7, 1871, p. 332.—
— from Life of Charles Dickens by Marzials, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), Sir

You're fit to cry just this minute, for nothing else but because you've sat still the whole day.
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

To the adult his childhood seems to have been altogether free from {80} any kind of sexual activity or interest, not because, as is generally supposed, such has never existed, but because it proved incapable of persisting in the conscious field and was suppressed into the unconscious with the increase of the social repressing forces.
— from Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War by W. (Wilfred) Trotter

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— from Our Little German Cousin by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade

The Countess is not exactly beautiful, but she is good-looking, with fine eyes, a brilliant complexion, and a good figure; she is a woman of superior intellect and conversation, and I should think about forty years of age; she was dressed in a rich crimson gown, and her mother in black satin.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 1 (of 2) by John James Audubon

In them the orbit is not enclosed by bone; there is no alisphenoid canal, and there are five toes and fingers.
— from Mammalia by Frank E. (Frank Evers) Beddard

You, sir, are a Dane of noble extraction, beloved by our king, to whom you and your family owe so many favours, and yet you keep silence!
— from Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 2 (of 3) Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H. M. George III. of England by Wraxall, Lascelles, Sir

These knobs are not eaten, but broken off, and given as offerings to the different supposed powers or influences that protect or destroy their flocks, to the one as a thank-offering, to the other as a peace-offering."
— from An Introduction to Mythology by Lewis Spence