Nought else there is / But that weird beat of Time, which doth disjoin / To-day from {pg 317} Hellas.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

How sunburnt with blushes I used to get in gaudy Nevada, every time I thought of my first financial experience in Salt Lake.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

They had been accustomed to count upon the intervention of that power which existed no longer, and Gideon Spilett, and even Cyrus Harding, could not escape this impression.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

For that valley which cuts it on the west extends to threescore furlongs, and did not end till it came to the lake Asphaltites; on the same side it was also that Machaerus had the tallest top of its hill elevated above the rest.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

but have no news, except that in the lottery the numbers 35, 59, 60, 61, and 62 have turned up prizes, so if we had selected these we should have won; but as we did not put in at all we neither won nor lost, but only laughed at those who did the latter.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

But as that is absurd to imagine, the world must be esteemed wise from all eternity, and consequently a Deity: since there is nothing existing that is not defective, except the universe, which is well provided, and fully complete and perfect in all its numbers and parts.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

You must, however, to complete the ceremony, switch it with a birch of seven leaf-ribs taken from a ‘green’ cocoa-nut ( pĕnyembat-nya lidi niyor hijau tujoh ’lei ) seven times at sundown, seven times at midnight, and seven times at sunrise, continuing this for three days, and saying as you do so:— “‘It is not earth that I switch, But the heart of So-and-so .’
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Being surprised to see so large an account disposed of at a time when the company were not empowered to increase their capital, the Committee determined to investigate most carefully the whole transaction.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

our life is not easy, there is no denying it.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For sooner mayst thou find a thing earthly, where no earthly thing is, than find a man that naturally can live by himself alone.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

The author has visited nearly every town in the State from which volunteers were recruited circulating the work, while a copy has been kept for every man whose name is recorded on its pages.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

Yes, sir, that was fifty years ago, and now every time I write a tough word I duck my head to dodge the shingle, and spell it wrong.
— from Port Argent: A Novel by Arthur Colton

"Madame," said I, "you must not only not say such a thing, but you must not even think it.
— from The Lady of the Ice: A Novel by James De Mille

Outline of a good law The following outline (with explanatory notes) embraces the important provisions of a good state library law: 1 Establishment and maintenance.
— from A Library Primer by John Cotton Dana

So long as men differ in natural endowments the ignorant and the incapable and the unsuccessful must outnumber those whose industry and energy and foresight insure success.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899 Volume LV, No. 3, July 1899 by Various

From that time forward Spain made no effort to invade the English colonies.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 02 (of 15), American (2) by Charles Morris

It is not easy to imagine the Thames bargees chanting passages from the Faerie Queene .
— from From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers