So surely do all prize life beyond wealth; for nothing is ever cherished more among mortals than the breath of their own life.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

From this time Diderot and Grimm seemed to have undertaken to alienate from me the governesses, by giving them to understand that if they were not in easy circumstances the fault was my own, and that they never would be so with me.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

id agit populo plane ut incommodet: tamen quia quod praecipuum est regiae dignitatis amifit, ut summus scilicet in regno secundum Deum sit, & solo Deo inferior, atque populum etiam totum ignorantem vel invitum, cujus libertatem sartam & tectam conservare debuit, in alterius gentis ditionem & potestatem dedidit; hac velut quadam regni ab alienatione effecit, ut nec quod ipse in regno imperium habuit retineat, nec in eum cui collatum voluit, juris quicquam transferat; atque ita eo facto liberum jam & suae potestatis populum relinquit, cujus rei exemplum unum annales Scotici suppeditant.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

It was a supreme, manifest, absolute demonstration of that fact, the inaction of the people, to which I could not resign myself—a deplorable inaction, if they understood, a self-treason, if they did not understand, a fatal neutrality in every case, a calamity of which all the responsibility, we repeat, recoiled not upon the people but upon those who in June, 1848, after having promised them amnesty, had refused it, and who had unhinged the great soul of the people of Paris by breaking faith with them.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

waray 2 a be gone, not in existence (colloquial).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Lassen thinks that the name is etymologically connected with Cambyses which in the cuneiform inscription of Behistun is written Ka(m)bujia.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Nevertheless its evolution can be clearly traced.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

He must then take the decoy-tube, and after reciting the appropriate charm, sound a long-drawn note in each corner successively, and then insert the mouth-end of it into the hut through a hole in the thatch, supporting the heavy outer end upon a forked upright stick.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Crowds, as was said, inundate the outer courts: inundation of young eleutheromaniac Noblemen in English costume, uttering audacious speeches; of Procureurs, Basoche-Clerks, who are idle in these days: of Loungers, Newsmongers and other nondescript classes,—rolls tumultuous there.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

And that three or four eight-ounce cubs do not make any undue demands on the resources of a three-hundred or four-hundred-pound mother is proved by the fact that both she and they are normally in excellent condition when they first come out in the spring.
— from The Black Bear by William H. (William Henry) Wright

Grindham, Pennefeather—pride struggling hard to be modest; shame striving to gloss itself over with gay indifference—human nature in either case denying and belying itself—what lesson, or what a caricature!
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 63, No. 391, May, 1848 by Various

In cold climates the raccoon lies dormant in the winter, only venturing out on occasional mild days; but in the Southern States he is active throughout the year, prowling about by day and by night in search of his food, inserting his little sharp nose into every corner, and feeling with his slender paws between stones for spiders and bugs of all kinds.
— from Harper's Young People, September 6, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

It would appear from the amount of relief administered in certain districts, selected for the calculation on account of their remote distances from one another, and from their containing a labouring population exclusively, that, although subject to modifications from the peculiar character and condition of the inhabitants, or from circumstances of an accidental nature in each case, yet the same law is found in the mass to prevail throughout; physical distress and want of Education are exhibited as co-existing in a direct ratio .
— from Second Annual Report of the Kensington Church of England District Visiting Society (1846) by Anonymous

Neighbours in Eden!’ cried Mark.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

I have found an unpublished ballade he wrote on the subject: BALLADE OF A PERIODICAL In icy circles by the Behring Strait, In moony jungles where the tigers roar, In tropic isles where civil servants wait, And wonder what the deuce they're waiting for, In lonely lighthouses beyond the Nore, In English country houses crammed with Jews, Men still will study, spell, perpend and pore And read the Illustrated London News.
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

The number in each class was small, usually from ten to fifteen.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Now, in every class and profession, there are failures,—persons that are good for nothing, indolent, improvident, and thriftless.
— from The Land-War in Ireland: A History for the Times by James Godkin

"Whether he succeeded or not, in either case it might have been awkward for him.
— from A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William, Sir