And if that satisfaction which is my lawful right is not granted me, I will make the thing an affair of state, and my Republic will not revenge itself by assaulting Frenchmen for a few pinches of snuff, but will expel them all root and branch.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

A wedding is a licensed subject to joke upon, but there really is no great joke in the matter after all;—we speak merely of the ceremony, and beg it to be distinctly understood that we indulge in no hidden sarcasm upon a married life.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Among the tribes at the mouth of the Wanigela River, in New Guinea, “a man who has taken life is considered to be impure until he has undergone certain ceremonies: as soon as possible after the deed he cleanses himself and his weapon.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

kay dì na ikatárì, This rooster is no good for fighting any more, but we can still use him as breeder.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The author of ‘Rambles in Northumberland’ gives a tradition concerning the river Wansbeck: ‘This river discharges itself into the sea at a place called Cambois, about nine miles to the eastward, and the tide flows to within five miles of Morpeth.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

well-a-day, lack-a-day Ioed, n. time past; ever Iolad, n. a worshipping Iolaeth, n. adoration, worship Iolaethu, v. to adore Iolawr, n. an adorer Iolch, n. an act of devotion Ioli, v. to praise; to worship Ion, n. a first cause; the Lord Ionawr, n. January Ior, n. the eternal; the Lord Iorn, n. a burst, a thrust Iornad, n. a bursting through Iorni, v. to burst through Iorthawl, a. incessant; diligent Iorthi, v. to be continual Iorthyn, n. assiduity Ir, n. that is pure; that is fresh; a. juicy; green; raw Iraâd, n. a growing juicy Irad, n. pungency, rage: a. pungent; grievous; rueful Iradedd, n. grievousness Iradrwydd, n. grievousness Iradu, v. to render afflicting Iradus, a. rueful, afflicting Irai, n. a sharp point; a goad Iraid, n. grease Iraidd, a. juicy; sappy; fresh Irain, a. full of juice; luxuriant Irâu, v. to grow juicy Irdanc, n. stupor, amazement Irdangawl, a. stupifying, amazing, causing a stupor Irdangiad, n. a stupifying Irdawd, n. succulency; freshness, or rawness Irdra, n. juiciness, freshness Ireidiad, n. an anointing, or greasing Ireidlyd, a. of a grea
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

The Pantheism will be ideal and transcendent, when it reaches its conclusions by a logical process in the abstract law of thought; and it will be material and empiric, when it concludes from the fixed connections of cause and effect in the generalized law of nature; but in neither case is the Pantheism any other than Atheism, for the Deity, circumscribed in the conditions of space and time with nature, is but nature still, and, whether in abstract thought or generalized reality, is no God."
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

For though I fled him angry, yet recalled To life prolonged and promised race, I now Gladly behold though but his utmost skirts Of glory; and far off his steps adore.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

The name of the Rabbi is not given, but the fact that R. Simeon b. Gamaliel (160 a.c. ) already refers to this interpretation makes it clear that its anonymous author must have lived at least a generation before.
— from Studies in Judaism, First Series by S. (Solomon) Schechter

The whole month of March was spent in a ceaseless endeavour to keep down the rising in Northern Galicia: the southern parts of the kingdom had been practically abandoned, and the French had no hold there save through the garrisons of Tuy and Vigo, both of which (as we have seen in an earlier chapter) were blockaded by the local levies the moment that Soult had passed on into Portugal.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Charles Oman

That Hancock achieved most in the way of definite results and that his experimenting and accomplishments were more markedly along thoroughly intelligent and conservatively practical mechanical lines than any of his rivals is now generally conceded.
— from Automobile Biographies An Account of the Lives and the Work of Those Who Have Been Identified with the Invention and Development of Self-Propelled Vehicles on the Common Roads by Lyman Horace Weeks

And how does the Professor know that the story of Jesus' resurrection is not going to meet the same fate which has overtaken all other similar stories?
— from The Truth About Jesus : Is He a Myth? Illustrated by M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian

"I'm sure Rosie is not going to interfere, are you, Rosie?"
— from The Rosie World by Parker Fillmore

If we take the want of much wear on the lip of hard basaltic rock as of any value, the period when this rock was riven is not geologically very remote.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

The lack of any habitual time for drinking this water usually results in not getting it at all.
— from Miller's Mind training for children Book 1 (of 3) A practical training for successful living; Educational games that train the senses by William Emer Miller

But rhetoric is not governed by the laws of logic, and insistence on the corruption or the criminality by which the Act of Union was carried is an effective method of conciliating popular sentiment to the cause of repeal.
— from England's Case Against Home Rule by Albert Venn Dicey

But public safety and the demands of science had long ago decreed that they should be whisked off, as soon as dead, a score or two at a time, and swept on iron tram-cars into furnaces heated to such intense white heat that they dissolved, crackling, even as they entered the chamber, and rose in nameless gases through the high chimney.
— from Cæsar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century by Ignatius Donnelly