A poor student snatches at every chance pleasure much as a dog runs all sorts of risks to steal a bone, cracking it and sucking the marrow as he flies from pursuit; but a young man who can rattle a few runaway gold coins in his pocket can take his pleasure deliberately, can taste the whole of the sweets of secure possession; he soars far above earth; he has forgotten what the word poverty means; all Paris is his.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

That this glaring betrayal of their interests should not have raised a storm of resentment amongst the working classes is surely evidence that the Marxian doctrine "the emancipation of the working classes must be brought about by the working classes themselves" 795 has so far led to no great results.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Even concerning these things we have improved our standpoint Consciousness, "spirit," now seems to us rather a symptom of relative imperfection in the organism, as an experiment, a groping, a misapprehension, an affliction which absorbs an unnecessary quantity of nervous energy.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Her disgraceful garments were removed, and some of Rachael’s were in the room.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Further, pine-cones were regarded as symbols or rather instruments of fertility.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

'Oh!' said he, more lightly, 'our young couple were playing such foolish pranks, running all sorts of risks, climbing this mountain, sailing on that lake, that I really thought they needed a Mentor to take care of them.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Just as in biology balance represents "a state of relatively good adjustment due to structural adaptation of the organism as a whole" so accommodation, when applied to groups rather than individuals, signifies their satisfactory co-ordination from the standpoint of the inclusive social organization.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

“My relative already spoken of rejoined me on the 1st of July, after having performed all the business I had entrusted him with.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Isc o rticáre, as Sc o rticáre.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

“It consists mostly of rurales, a sort of rough-and-ready cavalry.
— from The Boy Inventors' Diving Torpedo Boat by Richard Bonner

There are a few individuals who are perpetually thinking and talking on this subject, and who would fain comply with appropriate rules, if they knew what they were, and if a certain definite course, pursued a few days only, would change their whole condition, and completely restore a shattered or ruined constitution.
— from The Young Mother: Management of Children in Regard to Health by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

He was beginning to fall under Taoist influence and it is hard to repress a smile on reading that seven years later he died of the elixir.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

Note 74 ( return ) [ The rapine and satisfaction of Reginald de Courtenay, are preposterously arranged in the Epistles of the abbot and regent Suger, (cxiv. cxvi.,) the best memorials of the age, (Duchesne, Scriptores Hist.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6 by Edward Gibbon

Sap ó ri, as Sap o rétti.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

When he dismounted and removed his helmet, wiping away the sweat, all recognized him, and raised a shout of resentment.
— from Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

In the meantime d’Artagnan, who had plunged into a bypath, continued his route and reached St. Cloud; but instead of following the main street he turned behind the chateau, reached a sort of retired lane, and found himself soon in front of the pavilion named.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas