"It is a very stubborn factor, I have noticed, in some people.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

And just exactly as the people separate the lightning from its flash, and interpret the latter as a thing done, as the working of a subject which is called lightning, so also does the popular morality separate strength from the expression of strength, as though behind the strong man there existed some indifferent neutral substratum , which enjoyed a caprice and option as to whether or not it should [Pg 46] express strength.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is thought by ethnographers that their name is still preserved in the word “Hessen.”
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Whilst he thus abandoned the reins of empire to these unworthy favorites, he valued nothing in sovereign power, except the unbounded license of indulging his sensual appetites.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Ixora Isora Page 252 [ Not in source ] — Page 262 Ixora Isora
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Ang kabantug ni Ilurdi sa pamuksing, Elorde’s fame as a boxer.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Nur in schwülen Prüfungsstunden / Sprosst 25 die Palme, die den Sieger krönt —Only in the stifling hours of trial does the palm shoot forth which decks the brow of the victor.
— 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.

Lo, said she, seest thou yonder pavilion that is all of the colour of Inde, and all manner of thing that there is about, men and women, and horses trapped, shields and spears were all of the colour of Inde, and his name is Sir Persant of Inde, the most lordliest knight that ever thou lookedst on.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

No, indeed, said Pantagruel, without God’s especial grace.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

It was fortunate that Bobby had selected the center of the floe for his night shelter, for when he awoke in the morning and crawled out of his snow cavern he discovered that the unstable shore ice of which the floe was composed had been gradually breaking up during the night into separate pans, and that he was now upon a comparatively small floe, little more indeed than a large pan, which had originally been the center of the great floe upon which he went adrift.
— from Bobby of the Labrador by Dillon Wallace

(3) In any action for infringement of copyright in any work, the work shall be presumed to be a work in which copyright subsists and the plaintiff shall be presumed to be the owner of the copyright, unless the defendant puts in issue the existence of the copyright, or, as the case may be, the title of the plaintiff, and where any such question is in issue, then— ( a ) if a name purporting to be that of the author of the work is printed or otherwise indicated thereon in the usual manner, the person whose name is so printed or indicated shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed to be the author of the work; ( b ) if no name is so printed or indicated, or if the name so printed or indicated is not the author's true name or the name by which he is commonly known, and a name purporting to be that of the publisher or proprietor of the work is printed or otherwise indicated thereon in the usual manner, the person whose name is so printed or indicated shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed to be the owner of the copyright in the work for the purposes of proceedings in respect of the infringement of copyright therein.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

"No, not I," said Peter.
— from A Loose End and Other Stories by S. Elizabeth Hall

Hares and spermophiles showed themselves in considerable numbers in shallow places, and small bands of antelopes were almost constantly in sight, gazing curiously from some slight elevation, and then bounding swiftly away with unrivaled grace of motion.
— from The Mountains of California by John Muir

Sigismund told his Diet, 'Nihil esse imperio spoliatius, nihil egentius, adeo ut qui sibi ex Germaniæ principibus successurus esset, qui præter patrimonium nihil aliud habuerit, apud eum non imperium sed potius servitium sit futurum
— from The Holy Roman Empire by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

Now I shall pay her ten.
— from Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Ignatius Donnelly

“At the time, however, the spectacle alone and not its significances, preoccupied me.
— from Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath by Ben Hecht

"I hope not," I sighed, pulling out a cigar and a match, as I'd always done in the buggy.
— from Jack Ballington, Forester by John Trotwood Moore

Nothing is so profoundly mournful as a home that has been covered with shame—a wife that is worse than widowed—children worse than orphaned.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll