Ten∴ Collective des L∴ "Emmanuel Arago" & "les Coeurs Unis indivisibles": "Comment propager notre Idéal Maçonnique dans le Monde profane."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

What use to make of the tobacco I knew not, in my distemper, or whether it was good for it or no: but I tried several experiments with it, as if I was resolved it should hit one way or other.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Tilly-fally, Sir John, ne'er tell me; and your ancient swagg'rer comes not in my doors.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Bearing in mind the intimate connection of meanings and signs (or language), we may note in more detail what language does (1) for specific meanings, and (2) for the organization of meanings.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

"Nevertheless, I must do according to my own best judgment.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

S'el s'aunasse ancor tutta la gente che gia` in su la fortunata terra di Puglia, fu del suo sangue dolente per li Troiani e per la lunga guerra che de l'anella fe' si` alte spoglie, come Livio scrive, che non erra, con quella che sentio di colpi doglie per contastare a Ruberto Guiscardo; e l'altra il cui ossame ancor s'accoglie a Ceperan, la` dove fu bugiardo ciascun Pugliese, e la` da Tagliacozzo, dove sanz'arme vinse il vecchio Alardo; e qual forato suo membro e qual mozzo mostrasse, d'aequar sarebbe nulla il modo de la nona bolgia sozzo.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Then on the seventh day, whereon they were to expound the riddle proposed to them, they met together before sun-setting, and said, "Nothing is more disagreeable than a lion to those that light on it, and nothing is sweeter than honey to those that make use of it."
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The Ganges itself is already known, for its name is mentioned directly in one passage of the Rigveda and indirectly in another.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

In 1767 appeared Emerson's Treatise on Conic Sections ; a work which, notwithstanding its manifest defects, contributed not a little to aid the student in his approaches to the higher geometry, but whose publication would probably have been rendered unnecessary, had Dr. Simson so far loosened himself from the trammels of the age, as to have written his own admirable treatise in the English language.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Mr. Swinburne wrote a serious ballade , but the form, I venture to think, is not ‘wholly serious,’ of its nature, in modern days; and he did not persevere.
— from Ballades & Rhymes from Ballades in Blue China and Rhymes a la Mode by Andrew Lang

We are to observe that to every thing nothing is more dear and estimable than its being (the lion, the eagle the dolphin, prize nothing above their own kind); and that every thing assimilates the qualities of all other things to its own proper qualities, which we may indeed extend or contract, but that’s all; for beyond that relation and principle our imagination cannot go, can guess at nothing else, nor possibly go out thence, nor stretch beyond it; whence spring these ancient conclusions: of all forms the most beautiful is that of man; therefore God must be of that form.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

For us blood was supplied as long as we needed it, machines did our breathing, kidneys replaced, hearts furnished, glandular products in exact minute quantities, nervous and muscular systems regenerated—and our bodies responded.
— from Address: Centauri by F. L. (Floyd L.) Wallace

My name is Madame d'Ambre—Madeleine d'Ambre.
— from The Guests Of Hercules by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Well might Sophocles observe, “Many things are dreadful, but nothing is more dreadful than man.”
— from Whist; or, Bumblepuppy? Thirteen Lectures Addressed to Children by John Petch Hewby

This nurse is more damaging than the sentimentalist who fails to give the hypodermic; for that slip is easily discovered, and the transgressor must immediately reform and obey orders, or be dismissed.
— from Applied Psychology for Nurses by Mary F. Porter

Upon the hindmost and foremost horses, on the near side, two Frenchmen were mounted, with boots of a most surprizing magnitude, so well constructed with leather, wood, and iron, that if a horse falls down the rider is not in much danger of having his legs broke; for the prevention of which, the boots were thus made.
— from Dr. Stearns's Tour from London to Paris by Samuel Stearns

But I must confess that I was very nervous in my delivery, and frequently lost my place—sometimes even myself; and this to the great confusion of the congregation.
— from From Death into Life or, Twenty Years of my Ministry by W. (William) Haslam