Only the living from day to day mattered, the beloved existence in the body, rich, peaceful, complete, with no beyond, no further trouble, no further complication.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

— N. flatness &c. adj.; smoothness &c. 255.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

No captain now for conquest burns, But homeward with his host returns; For roads and kings' ambitious dreams Have vanished neath descending streams.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

And if the Books of Apocrypha (which are recommended to us by the Church, though not for Canonicall, yet for profitable Books for our instruction) may in this point be credited, the Scripture was set forth in the form wee have it in, by Esdras; as may appear by that which he himself saith, in the second book, chapt.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

A GRIM RETROGRESSION—THE PHANTOM OF CHANCE The Vances, who had been back in the city ever since Christmas, had not forgotten Carrie; but they, or rather Mrs. Vance, had never called on her, for the very simple reason that Carrie had never sent her address.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

When, therefore, by the substitution of paper, the gold and silver necessary for circulation is reduced to, perhaps, a fifth part of the former quantity, if the value of only the greater part of the other four-fifths be added to the funds which are destined for the maintenance of industry, it must make a very considerable addition to the quantity of that industry, and, consequently, to the value of the annual produce of land and labour.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Instead of doing as Ariosto, and as, still more offensively, Wieland has done, instead of degrading and deforming passion into appetite, the trials of love into the struggles of concupiscence; Shakespeare has here represented the animal impulse itself, so as to preclude all sympathy with it, by dissipating the reader's notice among the thousand outward images, and now beautiful, now fanciful circumstances, which form its dresses and its scenery; or by diverting our attention from the main subject by those frequent witty or profound reflections, which the poet's ever active mind has deduced from, or connected with, the imagery and the incidents.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nadyezhda Fyodorovna came in; she stopped near the doorway and looked shyly at the visitors.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

negotium agere dicant nec facere cuiquam videantur iniuriam.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Here in Halle, where we have no public garden and no Tivoli, no London Exchange, no Paris Chamber of Deputies, no Berlin nor Vienna Theatres, no Strassburg Minster, nor Salzburg Alps,--no Grecian ruins nor fantastic Catholicism, in fine, nothing, which after one's daily task is finished, can divert and refresh him, without his knowing or caring how,--I consider the sight of a proof-sheet quite as delightful as a walk in the Prater of Vienna.
— from Hyperion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The name of a person or place noted for certain qualities is transferred to any person or place possessing those qualities ; thus,— Hercules and Samson were noted for their strength, and we call a very strong man a Hercules or a Samson .
— from An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell

No folly could have been plainer—for Judah it meant destruction itself to set its strength against the forces of Babylonia.
— from The World's Progress, Vol. 01 (of 10) With Illustrative texts from Masterpieces of Egyptian, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Modern European and American Literature by Delphian Society

He then shows how in some localities there are now forming coral deposits, in some places chalk, and in others beds of Molluscs; while in still other places entirely different forms of life are existing.
— from Illogical Geology, the Weakest Point in the Evolution Theory by George McCready Price

To this it was replied that both the powder and the fuses were bad, and no faith could be had in them.
— from Recollections of the War of 1812 by William Dunlop