From the point of view only of his value to Germany and to German culture, Richard Wagner is still a great problem, perhaps a German misfortune: in any case, however, a fatality.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

After this general community, the sovereign, and most worthy part presiding and governing, and performing its proper offices, they say, that thence great utility was derived, both by private and public concerns; that it constituted the force and power of the countries where it prevailed, and the chiefest security of liberty and justice.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

When they came to Viken, they proceeded peacefully and gently on the east side of the fjord; but when the fleet came westward to Tunsberg, a great number of King Inge's lendermen came against them.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Already there was a port of MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, so you could play practically any game that had ever been written, all the way back to Pong -- games for the Apple ]
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

If possible, pick a gallery where coal cars have to pass each other, so that traffic will be snarled up.
— from Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

And the doves nodded with their heads and began pick, pick, pick, pick, and the others began also pick, pick, pick, pick, and gathered all the good seeds into the dishes, and before half an hour was over they had already finished, and all flew out again.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

a park, a forest where wild beasts were kept for hunting; a pleasure park, a garden of trees of various kinds; used in the LXX.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

The people, from whom taxes might be always extorted at pleasure, paid a good share of this, for the fifth of the three millions of écus d'or was realised from the tax on salt, the thirteenth part from the duty on the sale of fermented liquors, and twelve deniers per pound from the tax on the value of all provisions sold and resold within the kingdom.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

More than a thousand people perished; a great wave engulfed Callao, drowning half the population and carrying great ships far inland.
— from The South American Republics, Part 2 of 2 by Thomas Cleland Dawson

Satan may set up some new form of religion, or he may breathe into those that may already exist a spirit of worldliness and vanity—some new manifestation of the religion of forms—that shall for a limited period produce a general decline and apostasy.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

However, about twenty years since a person acquainted with the appearance of rough diamonds conceived that these pebbles, as they were then esteemed, were of the same kind: but it is said that there was a considerable interval between the first starting of this opinion and the confirmation of it by proper trials and examination, it proving difficult to persuade the inhabitants that what they had been long accustomed to despise could be of the importance represented by this discovery, and I have been informed that in this interval a governor of one of their places procured a good number of these stones, which he pretended to make use of at cards to mark with instead of counters.
— from A Voyage Round the World in the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV by Anson, George Anson, Baron

Many of the evils of schoolboy life come from the sons of the rich, while the sons of poor parents are generally well behaved.
— from My Autobiography: A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

Visits the herds along the twilight meadows, Helping all urchin blasts, and ill-luck signs 845 That the shrewd meddling elf delights to make, Which she with precious vialed liquors heals; For which the shepherds at their festivals Carol her goodness loud in rustic lays, And throw sweet garland wreaths into her stream 850 Of pansies, pinks, and gaudy daffodils.
— from An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty. by John Milton

Footnote 122 : This passage reminds the translator of a beautiful poem of Lenau's, in which the postilion passing a graveyard in the mountains at night, where an old fellow-postilion lies buried, blows an air which the dead man used to love; and a passenger hearing the echo from the mountain-churchyard, says:-- "And a blast upon the air From the heights came flying:
— from Titan: A Romance. v. 2 (of 2) by Jean Paul

Locusts play persistently a G string out of tune until, when the first goldenrod peers above the yarrow, the overwhelming night chorus of the katydids is heard, lifted bravely again and again within the domains of autumn, not quenched before the bittersweet berry and the chestnut fling open portals and surrender to the cold.
— from Minstrel Weather by Marian Storm