To work hold the working thread down with the thumb close to the spot where you first brought it out, twist it twice round the needle, turn the needle round from left to right, following the direction indicated by the arrow, pass it through the fabric at the place which is marked by a dot, and draw it out at the place where the next stitch is to be. Fig.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont
All thought of sway, none was constrained by brotherly regard: for love of others forsaketh him who is eaten up with love of self, nor can any man take thought at once for his own advancement and for his friendship with others.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo
And to that I would add that, while I myself possess a reputation for Liberal and progressive views, I possess that reputation for the very reason that I can respect real aristocrats.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Still, there was one position worse than the present: it was the position he would be in when the ugly secret was disclosed; and the desire that continually triumphed over every other was that of warding off the evil day, when he would have to bear the consequences of his father's violent resentment for the wound inflicted on his family pride—would have, perhaps, to turn his back on that hereditary ease and dignity which, after all, was a sort of reason for living, and would carry with him the certainty that he was banished for ever from the sight and esteem of Nancy Lammeter.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot
It is yet a greater wonder that you can refrain from laughing among yourselves.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero
What pleasures could have remained for Lucretia Borgia and Catharine de Medici, when the dreadful boundary line between innocence and guilt was passed, and the lost creatures stood upon the lonely outer side?
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Respice finem —Look to the end.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.
Note 175 ( return ) [ From lines 333 and 341 of this book, and lines 145 and 146 of bk.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer
The owners had declined to sell; and our ever hungry men had honourably refrained from laying unpermitted hands on these greatly enjoyable dainties.
— from With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Edward P. Lowry
Page 156 [156] CHAPTER VI NOTABLE EXECUTIONS Reasons for legal punishments—Early forms—Capital punishment universal—Methods of inflicting death—Awful cruelties—The English custom—Pressing to death—Abolition of this punishment—Decapitation and strangulation—The guillotine and gallows—Smithfield, St. Giles, Tower Hill, Tyburn—Derivation of Tyburn—An execution in 1662—Fashionable folk attend—George Selwyn—Breakfast party at Newgate—Ribald conduct of the mob at executions—Demeanour of condemned: effrontery, or abject terror—Improper customs long retained—St. Giles's Bowl—Saddler of Bawtry—Smoking at Tyburn—Richard Dove's bequest—The hangman and his office—Resuscitation—Sir William Petty's operation—Tyburn procession continues—Supported by Doctor Johnson—The front of Newgate substituted as the scene of execution.
— from Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. 1 From the twelfth to the eighteenth century by Arthur Griffiths
--Our diagnosis of "sweating" has regarded poverty as an industrial disease, and we have therefore concerned ourselves with the examination of industrial remedies, factory legislation, Trade Unionism, and restrictions of the supply of unskilled labour.
— from Problems of Poverty: An Inquiry into the Industrial Condition of the Poor by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
[114] XXIV REDDY FOX LOSES HIS TEMPER REDDY FOX had caught Danny Meadow Mouse, and yet he hadn’t caught him.
— from The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
Consistently with my rank as a goblin chaperone , I should consider myself guilty of great impoliteness did I not notice one or two of the lectures I have received from lay disputants since the two first volumes have been published, but which other occupations have heretofore prevented me from duly noticing.
— from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Barrington, Jonah, Sir
A deductive explanation of this same law results from Liebig's speculations.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill
Was it imagination or was the candle now giving off that same pale radiance she remembered from languorous afternoons long ago in Brazil—the half-light of mist and rainbows that bathed their courtyard in a gossamer sheen when an afternoon storm swept overhead.
— from Caribbee by Thomas Hoover
"I have returned from Lancs., and ascertained that my property there may be made very valuable, but various circumstances very much circumscribe my exertions at present.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
John's head was bent, and his hands were clasped upon his saddle-bow, while the reins fell loosely from between his listless fingers.
— from John Ward, Preacher by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
Don’t mind if such reckless fools laugh at your caution and think you are timid; the chances are that you’ll be sailing about safely long after they are food for the fishes.
— from The Book of the Sailboat: How to rig, sail and handle small boats by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill
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