As for letting the beast escape from the line of beaters, as for the two young gentlemen's not holding their ground before the beast as they ought, though they had a pike in their hands, that no one can either praise or blame: for to retreat with one's gun loaded was, according to our old ideas, to be a coward of cowards; likewise to shoot blindly, as many do, without letting the beast come close or sighting at it, is a shameful thing; but whoever aims well, whoever lets the beast [pg 139] come near him as is proper, even if he misses, may retire without shame; or he may fight with the pike, but at his own pleasure and not from compulsion; since the pike is put in a sportsman's hands not for attack but for defence alone.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

Philomela in Parts II and III.
— from The Waste Land by T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

But the passengers go on board, the plank is pulled in, and the steam is turned on.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Nom. —— plûs plûr ês plûr a Gen. —— plûr is plûr ium plûr ium Dat. —— —— plûr ibus plûr ibus Acc. —— plûs plûr îs, -ês plûr a Abl.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

No publication of the book or individual articles from the book in print is permitted, in any language, without the express written consent of the author.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

If [poison] is placed in a dish made of fine porcelain, the dish immediately breaks.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Stem monit- ACTIVE PASSIVE INDICATIVE PRESENT I advise , etc., I am advised, etc.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

[in a certain or limited degree] partially, in part; in a certain degree, to a certain degree; to a certain extent; comparatively; some, rather in some degree, in some measure; something, somewhat; simply, only, purely, merely; at least, at the least, at most, at the most; ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu[Fr], in ever so small a degree; thus far, pro tanto[It], within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak. almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but; near upon, close upon; peu s'en faut[Fr], near the mark; within an ace of, within an inch of; on the brink of; scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than; about [in an uncertain degree], thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say; be the same, be little more or less; no ways [in no degree], no way, no wise; not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow; in no wise, in no respect; by no means, by no manner of means; on no account, at no hand.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

If my inborn faculties are good, I am a prophet; if poor, I am a failure: nature spews me out of her mouth, and there is an end of me.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Then bringing my huge prick I plunged in a single vigorous thrust up to the very top of her cunt, and made her squeal and spend with that alone.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

At Copiapo Almagro imitated the conduct of Pizarro in Peru in assuming the office of umpire between contending native authorities.
— from Spanish and Portuguese South America during the Colonial Period; Vol. 1 of 2 by Robert Grant Watson

Then the members spring from their seats, arms, hands, excitable faces, rapid vociferations, all come in play, and the element of pantomime performs its part in assisting the human voice as naturally as among the Italians of Syracuse.
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

But when he tried to put his plans into practice, it at once became evident that they were even more unsubstantial than they were audacious.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 by Theodore Roosevelt

When this phenomenon is present in a high degree, we speak of ‘moral insanity’ with Maudsley; [9] there are, nevertheless, lower stages in which the degenerate does not, perhaps, himself commit any act which will bring him into conflict with the criminal code, but at least asserts the theoretical legitimacy of crime; seeks, with philosophically sounding fustian, to prove that ‘good’ and ‘evil,’ virtue and vice, are arbitrary distinctions; goes into raptures over evildoers and their deeds; professes to discover beauties in the lowest and most repulsive things; and tries to awaken interest in, and so-called ‘comprehension’ of, every bestiality.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

The children should be sent out of closed rooms where their play raises more or less dust, and kept in well-ventilated places, if possible, in a garden or in a woods well supplied with aromatic trees.
— from The Montessori Elementary Material The Advanced Montessori Method by Maria Montessori

A direct line of communication has already been opened between France and Italy, through the Mont Cenis Tunnel; while page iv p. iv another has been opened between Germany and Italy through the Brenner Pass,—so that the entire journey may now be made by two different railway routes (excepting only the short sea-passage across the English Channel) from London to Brindisi, situated in the south-eastern extremity of the Italian peninsula.
— from Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles

It presents its pardon in a tangible, visible form, and it leads the soul to rest for its assurance upon something safely done.
— from Popery: The Accommodation of Christianity to the Natural Heart by Edward Hoare

Honore preserved it preciously in a pot for a fortnight, only to discover at length that this plant was a vulgar pumpkin.
— from Balzac by Frederick Lawton

[28] Stirling's orders, March 13th, 1776: "It is intended to employ one half of the inhabitants every other day, changing, at the works for the defence of this city; and the whole of the slaves every day, until this place is put in a proper posture of defence.
— from The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year by Henry Phelps Johnston