Let us rid ourselves of a prejudice here: idealising does not consist, as is generally believed, in a suppression or an elimination of detail or of unessential features.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This milling is a sort of collective gesture, an expression of discomfort or of fear.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

So much have I now rattled off (old age's garrulity,) that there is not space for explaining the most important and pregnant principle of all, viz., that Art is one, is not partial, but includes all times and forms and sorts—is not exclusively aristocratic or democratic, or oriental or occidental.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

There are of course also numerous shields of warriors, of which some are round, others kite-shaped, and on some of the latter are rude figures, of dragons or other imaginary animals, as well as crosses of different forms, and spots.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

As to Pitt, whoever hesitate, he, suspending his Habeas-corpus, suspending his Cash-payments, stands inflexible,—spite of foreign reverses; spite of domestic obstacles, of Scotch National Conventions and English Friends of the People, whom he is obliged to arraign, to hang, or even to see acquitted with jubilee: a lean inflexible man.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

If we consider the works of women in modern times, and contrast them with those of men, either in the literary or the artistic department, [Pg 128] such inferiority as may be observed resolves itself essentially into one thing: but that is a most material one; deficiency of originality.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

The Marriage of Geraint The brave Geraint, a knight of Arthur's court, A tributary prince of Devon, one Of that great Order of the Table Round, Had married Enid, Yniol's only child, And loved her, as he loved the light of Heaven.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Oil of Orris , made of the roots of Orris Florentine one pound, purple Orris flowers half a pound: boil them in a double vessel in a sufficient quantity of decoction of Orris Florentine, and six pounds of sweet oil, putting fresh roots and flowers again and again; the former being cast away as in oil of Roses.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make us almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

He made me feel clearly, what I had not felt at all before, the general adventurousness of life, particularly of life at the stage we had reached, and also the absence of definite objects, of any concerted purpose in the lives that were going on all round us.
— from Tono-Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Their opinion is the same with regard to small dogs, which are kept with great care, and no one willingly injures a dog, or, if he should injure purposely, or destroy one of them, the law would punish him.
— from The Dog by William Youatt

For what possible reason except to attract the eyes of a crowd of men, young fools or doddering old ones—" Milly uttered an expression of vehement denial, but he continued: "Or else to whet my appetite for forbidden fruit.
— from The Invader: A Novel by Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa) Woods

On January 15th of that year, the Lord said through the Presidency, Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon and Hyrum Smith, and on divers other occasions, that the Saints scattered abroad should come to Nauvoo and Hancock county.
— from Origin of the 'Reorganized' Church and the Question of Succession by Joseph Fielding Smith

And we know that these rains have failed in producing any comprehendable system of drainage over one third of our continent, at, least, at present with our limited knowledge, the water system appears wasteful and purposeless throughout that region.
— from The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc

Driven from the cabin by disposition to sickness, I write on deck on one of the hen coops.
— from The Life and Letters of the Rev. George Mortimer, M.A. Rector of Thornhill, in the Diocese of Toronto, Canada West by John Armstrong

Oh, dear one our souls already understand each other better than we."
— from A Twofold Life by Wilhelmine von Hillern

I had longed for some real feminine Modesty in these things, and was therefore gladdened in the extreme on opening the other day, one of Bailey’s Books—a book of poetry written by one beautiful Mrs. Philips, a friend of Jeremy Taylor’s, and called “The Matchless Orinda—” You must have heard of her, and most likely read her Poetry—I wish you have not, that I may have the pleasure of treating you with a few stanzas—I do it at a venture—You will not regret reading them once more.
— from Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

To the Asiatic peasant all streams and woods are peopled with visionary forms,--are the homes of demons or of angels.
— from The Curse of Koshiu: A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield

The most monstrous absurdity of this claim was that the ecclesiastical tribunal had no power to impose any but ecclesiastical punishments, that is to say, penance, excommunication, or deprivation of orders.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman