His active attitude would be pulled up short and contradicted.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

When this jangle of free-will instinct shall have been adjusted, when perfect under standing has given the former the power to replace the latter entirely, man will no longer vary.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Constructed of nought but precocious, unripened self-experiences, all of which lay close to the threshold of the communicable, based on the groundwork of [Pg 4] art —for the problem of science cannot be discerned on the groundwork of science,—a book perhaps for artists, with collateral analytical and retrospective aptitudes (that is, an exceptional kind of artists, for whom one must seek and does not even care to seek ...), full of psychological innovations and artists' secrets, with an artists' metaphysics in the background, a work of youth, full of youth's mettle and youth's melancholy, independent, defiantly self-sufficient even when it seems to bow to some authority and self-veneration; in short, a firstling-work, even in every bad sense of the term; in spite of its senile problem, affected with every fault of youth, above all with youth's prolixity and youth's "storm and stress": on the other hand, in view of the success it had (especially with the great artist to whom it addressed itself, as it were, in a duologue, Richard Wagner) a demonstrated book, I mean a book which, at any rate, sufficed "for the best of its time."
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Russell assented, but Palmerston put up Sir George Cornewall Lewis to contradict Gladstone and treated him sharply in the press, at the very moment when Russell was calling a Cabinet to make Gladstone's words good.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

‘It was a little cottage, you may suppose,’ he said, presently, ‘but she found space for Em’ly in it,—her husband was away at sea,—and she kep it secret, and prevailed upon such neighbours as she had (they was not many near) to keep it secret too.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

God who, in the midst of all the thorns with which thou plaguest us, strewest so many roses on our path that, without thee, existence and death would be united and blended together!
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Not provided with a pass, any white man would be at liberty to arrest me, and place me in prison until such time as my master should "prove property, pay charges, and take me away."
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

At prodigious expense, by sheer force, they broke resistance down, leaving everything but the mere fact of power untouched, since nothing else had a solution.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

"Querido padre: perdóneme usted si por primera vez le desobedezco no saliendo de aquí, ni renunciando a mi propósito.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Coffee Exports from Mexico Exported to 1900 Pounds 1913 Pounds 1918 Pounds United States 28,882,954 28,012,655 23,816,044 Germany 10,074,001 10,461,382 ——— Aus.-Hungary 163,934 30,864 ——— Belgium 25,855 39,722 ——— Spain 546,132 184,941 6,184,494 France 3,927,294 4,482,011 ——— Netherlands 220,607 46,296 ——— Great Britain 3,848,605 2,170,669 ——— Cuba 467,201 37,921 171,527 Italy 157,653 347,758 ——— Other countries ——— 655,073 ——— ————— ————— ————— Total 48,314,236 46,469,292 30,172,065 In 1913 "other countries" included Panama, 342,131 pounds; Canada, 276,567 pounds; Sweden, 3,079 pounds; British Honduras, 33,179 pounds; Denmark, 112 pounds.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

His plan, succinctly described, was to break through the line of investment on the right bank of the Moselle by directing three Corps, the 3rd, 4th, and 6th, principally upon St. Barbe, and he hoped, if successful, to march them forward upon Kedange, while the Guard and the 2nd Corps followed the track by the river.
— from The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire, August-September 1870 by George Hooper

Accounts of these four mammals and of a previously unnamed subspecies of kangaroo rat on Mustang Island, Texas, follow.
— from Mammals Obtained by Dr. Curt von Wedel from the Barrier Beach of Tamaulipas, Mexico by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall

The hour that Propert usually stayed had to-day lengthened itself out (so short was it) to two before the young man looked at his watch, and jumped up from his chair.
— from An Autumn Sowing by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

When he looked round and saw that she was going away in the opposite direction, he sat down on a bench by the water, and, picking up some small stones, threw them viciously at the ducks who swam up to his feet for crumbs.
— from All But Lost: A Novel. Vol. 2 of 3 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Dodge, we don't care particularly for you, or for Bayliss, either, but if the warning I've given you about pasting up such lying notices to scare people traveling over a public highway is of any use to you, then you're welcome to what you've learned."
— from The High School Boys' Fishing Trip by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

I kept enough slack in my tail so I wouldn't get pulled up short, and then just forgot about it.
— from Man in a Quandary by Stecher, L. J., Jr.

All this part of the front had remained practically unmoved since the finish of the fighting in the Autumn of 1915.
— from The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion by W. C. C. Weetman

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— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

—— Poems upon several occasions, English, Italian, and Latin, with translations: viz., Lycidas, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Arcades, Comus, Odes, Sonnets, Miscellanies, English Psalms, Elegiarum Liber, Epigrammatum Liber, Sylvarum Liber.
— from Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett