On every piece of waste or common ground, some small gambler drove his noisy trade, and bellowed to the idle passersby to stop and try their chance; the crowd grew thicker and more noisy; gilt gingerbread in blanket-stalls exposed its glories to the dust; and often a four-horse carriage, dashing by, obscured all objects in the gritty cloud it raised, and left them, stunned and blinded, far behind.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiæ fuit —No great genius is ever without some tincture of madness.
— 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.

“Nonsense, Grace, get in at once, and don't make all this fuss; a pretty thing it would be if a man of business had to examine every cab-horse before he hired it—the man knows his own business of course; there, get in and hold your tongue!”
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

He lives in a good house in a noble great garden in Benares, all meet and proper to his stupendous rank.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

He decided to walk—it is no good giving in, and he had spent money enough at Queen’s Hall—and he walked over Westminster Bridge, in front of St. Thomas’s Hospital, and through the immense tunnel that passes under the South-Western main line at Vauxhall.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

I wish my weak head may not grow giddy in the midst of all this gallantry and dissipation; though, as yet, I can safely declare, I could gladly give up all these tumultuous pleasures, for country solitude, and a happy retreat with those we love; among whom, my dear Willis will always possess the first place in the breast of her Ever affectionate, LYDIA MELFORD LONDON, May 31.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

But he himself viewed the adventure in a different light, and rightly imputed the violence of Mademoiselle's behaviour to the contradiction she had sustained from her maid, or to the fire of her natural generosity glowing in behalf of innocence traduced.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The castes, moreover, do not generally graduate into each other, but are perfectly well defined; being as distinct from each other, as are any two species of the same genus, or rather as any two genera of the same family.
— 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

Guernsey Military Military - note: defense is the responsibility of the UK Guernsey Transnational Issues Disputes - international: none ====================================================================== @Guinea Guinea Introduction Background: Independent from France since 1958, Guinea did not hold democratic elections until 1993 when Gen. Lansana CONTE (head of the military government) was elected president of the civilian government.
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

This book as a transcendental philosophy deals with man in his present position in society and the world; it is the business of history teaching to have the next generation grow into this condition so that the condition may continue.
— from The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume V, 1914 by Various

“There ain’t no good, governor, in mincing matters.
— from The White Squaw by Mayne Reid

Chambers does not seem aware of one very striking coincidence, viz., that I made by careful measurement my Kilfinnin terrace 1202 feet above sea, and now Glen Gluoy is 1203 feet, according to the recent more careful measurements.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

Now go, go, I tell you I must write.
— from The Lady of Blossholme by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

wherein are contained Regesta Geographica to the whole work, which for this large cyclus of Sagas may be considered as tantamount to an old northern geographical gazetteer, in as much as attention has also been paid to other old northern manuscripts of importance in a geographical point of view.
— from The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe, Tending to Elucidate the Physical History of Man by John Russell Bartlett

It was no good going into that, though on the right edge of the deep waters some French companies waded through and took a blockhouse, with a batch of prisoners and machine-guns.
— from From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 by Philip Gibbs

At one time it was largely used as a pigment, but is now gradually going, if indeed it has not already gone, out of use.
— from Pigments, Paint and Painting: A practical book for practical men by George Terry