Rulers are granted great privileges which are practically cancelled by taboo prohibitions in regard to other privileges.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

Cover up cover up the two with a little piece of string and hope rose and green, green.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

I rather supposed it would fall on me, somewhere near Raleigh; and General Grant added that, if Lee would only wait a few more days, he would have his army so disposed that if the enemy should abandon Richmond, and attempt to make junction with General Jos.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

And therewith he groaned piteously, and rode a great gallop away from them.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

The new-comer had dull, dog-like brown eyes, as different as possible from the restless and glittering grey eyes of the prince.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

He journeyed from day to day, not knowing where he was going, until at last, just at nightfall, he reached a great, gloomy forest.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

He came down the road towards them, and picked up nearly a hundred too drunk or frightened to run away.” Grotesque gleam of a time no history will ever fully describe!
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

A COFFEE BIBLIOGRAPHY A list of references gathered from the principal general and scientific libraries—Arranged in alphabetic order of topics TOPICS AND SUBDIVISIONS Adulteration Diseases and Enemies Physiological Effects ( Continued ) Board of Health Regulations General Works OF DIFFERENT CONSTITUENTS Botanical Description Literature, Poetry, Romance OF GREEN COFFEE Chemistry Manufacturing Processes OF LEAVES OF COFFEE TREE ANALYSIS, GENERAL BREWING OF ROASTED COFFEE CAFFEIN GLAZING OF SMOKING COFFEE CAFFEIN-FREE COFFEE MISCELLANEOUS ON CHILDREN CAFFEOL MODIFICATIONS ON DIFFERENT ORGANS AND SYSTEMS GREEN COFFEE POLISHING AND COLORING Substitutes ROASTED COFFEE ROASTING AND GRINDING GENERAL Chicory Medicinal Qualities and Uses MALT COFFEE CHICORY IN COFFEE ANTISEPTIC AND DISINFECTANT Taxation, Jurisprudence, Etc.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It is difficult to realise that this house has been the scene of a world-drama within the last few days, and that in one of its reception-rooms a German gentleman spoke a few quiet words, before asking for some papers, which hurled millions of men against each other in a deadly struggle involving all that we mean by civilization.
— from The Soul of the War by Philip Gibbs

My son," he continued, rising, and gazing gravely upon Sir Arthur's face, "if you would have comfort, consolation, and advice from one who is your old and long-tried friend, as well as your spiritual guide, you must have confidence in him.
— from The Convict: A Tale by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The young things in front weep to see the poor boy going out lonely and broken-hearted in the cold night to save the proprieties of New England Puritanism; but he is really a god going back to his heaven, proud, unspeakably contemptuous of the "happiness" he envied in the days of his blindness, clearly seeing that he has higher business on hand than Candida.
— from Iconoclasts: A Book of Dramatists Ibsen, Strindberg, Becque, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Hervieu, Gorky, Duse and D'Annunzio, Maeterlinck and Bernard Shaw by James Huneker

Behold! laid out in dark recess, A ghastly goat in stark undress, Pallid and still on her gelid bed, And indisputably very dead.
— from Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce

We are getting good results and giving good service to the public.
— from Letters from an Old Railway Official. Second Series: [To] His Son, a General Manager by Charles De Lano Hine

By a devious route amid ghostly gasometers I had crept to my post in the early dusk, before the moon was risen, and already I was heartily weary of my passive part in the affair of the night.
— from The Hand of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor by Sax Rohmer

And she would walk from Brompton in any weather, and embrace Mrs. Veal with tearful gratitude for the delightful evening she had passed, when, the company having retired and Georgy gone off with Mr. Rowson, his attendant, poor Mrs. Osborne put on her cloaks and her shawls preparatory to walking home.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

" Said Ralph: "All good go with thy words, Richard; yet gather not force: there may stout men be culled on the road; and if thou runnest or ridest about the town, we may yet be stayed by Blaise and his men.
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

Unnourishing reeds and grasses grow rank and coarse from the water's edge.
— from The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston Churchill