Be therefore ready every moment, seeing that you may die at any moment.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Why did he not pay attention to Celia, and leave her to listen to Mr. Casaubon?—if that learned man would only talk, instead of allowing himself to be talked to by Mr. Brooke, who was just then informing him that the Reformation either meant something or it did not, that he himself was a Protestant to the core, but that Catholicism was a fact; and as to refusing an acre of your ground for a Romanist chapel, all men needed the bridle of religion, which, properly speaking, was the dread of a Hereafter.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I am grown greater too, for I have maintained the news-papers these many weeks; and what is greater still, I have risen every morning since New-year's day, at about eight; when I was up, I have indeed done but little; yet it is no slight advancement to obtain for so many hours more, the consciousness of being.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

But the second request embarrasses me seriously.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

‘A razor!’ exclaimed Mr. Snawley, as they walked into the next box.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

“Zina and I to-day after dinner spent some really exalted moments,” said Vlassitch.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She had proved an excellent wife to one of our most tedious ambassadors, and having buried her husband properly in a marble mausoleum, which she had herself designed, and married off her daughters to some rich, rather elderly men, she devoted herself now to the pleasures of French fiction, French cookery, and French esprit when she could get it.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

] Note 122 ( return ) [ {e mia kai Sauromatai}: some Editors read {e meta Sauromateon}.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Purposely he called up into his mind little incidents of the vanished spring, phrased to himself emotions that would make him react even more strongly to sorrow.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

The vast averages of time and the race en masse settle these things.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Rank on rank this troop rode past the plateau without conversation in the ranks, each man sitting easily in the saddle, grim faced or thoughtful.
— from The Radio Boys Seek the Lost Atlantis by Gerald Breckenridge

They consist principally of thick limestones above and sandstones and conglomerates below, and thus represent extensive marine submergence of the earth’s crust in the Cretaceous where now there are very lofty mountains.
— from The Andes of Southern Peru Geographical Reconnaissance along the Seventy-Third Meridian by Isaiah Bowman

Less., etc., etc., duos regales, etsi minus sufficiat, si notabiliter noceat.”
— from Fifty Years in the Church of Rome by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy

“Your reasoning enlightens me!” she cried.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

From her knowledge of the temper of her friend, Lady Littleton thought that this would be peculiarly gratifying to her; but, contrary to all rational expectation, Mrs. Somers heard the news with an air of extreme mortification, which soon turned into anger.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Maria Edgeworth

" When Sir F. Banbury , who indubitably has that right, endorsed Mr. Samuel's appeal, Mr. McKenna took refuge under a point of order—rather an exiguous form of shelter for a Minister of the Crown.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 7, 1916 by Various

There was no one besides ourselves in the room, except my stepmother, and she was standing at the window, with her head turned away from us, looking out.
— from John Marchmont's Legacy, Volumes 1-3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

A peaceful transition to democracy following the death of dictator Francisco FRANCO in 1975, and rapid economic modernization (Spain joined the EU in 1986) have given Spain one of the most dynamic economies in Europe and made it a global champion of freedom.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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