The curtains of yesterday drop down, the curtains of to-morrow roll up; but yesterday and to-morrow both are.
— 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.

Then, more full of passion than ever woman lover had ever been, and enraptured as you listened to my voice, so completely beneath your sway, listening only to your own love, you would raise your little coquettish petticoat, and pressing dear little loves of calves more closely together, for you could be on your knees, resting upon my little blue veins, you would frig me in this manner, with greater vigour than ever sitting down every now and then upon your fine little heels, in order the better to release my beautiful prick, perfectly straight and rudely swollen and inflamed with passionate desires, from between your divine thighs, as soft as satin, and as white as snow, to better introduce the wet tips of your lovely and velvet like bosoms into the seductive little hole of my member, whilst my knees raised slightly behind would gently caress your bottom, so as to give you some little satisfaction in your turn; and at last, unable any longer to retard the moment of emission, you would bend forward, resting upon both your hands, to increase my desire, and keeping yourself back a little distance from me, while your petticoats would now cover my head, and act almost like an electrical conductor upon me, you would intoxicate me with the perfume exhaled from your legs, from your member, from your cunt, from your bottom, and lastly, you would slack my thirst and complete the celestial transport by pissing, with eager rapture, between my burning lips
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

I am grateful that my physical and mental-strength remain unimpaired by years, and am thankful for the liberal provision made by Congress for my remaining years, which will enable me to respond promptly to any call the President may make for my military service or judgment as long as I live.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

In the same sense the transcendental philosopher says; grant me a nature having two contrary forces, the one of which tends to expand infinitely, while the other strives to apprehend or find itself in this infinity, and I will cause the world of intelllgences with the whole system of their representations to rise up before you.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The news of Count Bezúkhov’s death reached us before your letter and my father was much affected by it.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

There are ways of doing everything; often things may remain unspoken, but yet may be guessed”...
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

The epithet is very appropriate, for there is something truly divine in being able to argue as you have done for the superiority of injustice, and remaining unconvinced by your own arguments.
— from The Republic by Plato

All its disputes, all its ill-will and bad blood, rise up before you.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The first night’s generally rather unsettled, but you’ll be set all squares to-morrow.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Paul understood, and asked in his turn: "How much do you ask for these rooms by the month?" "With the small room upstairs besides?" "Yes." "Thirty dollars a month.
— from Slow and Sure: The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

"Priest you are," returned Ulysses, "but your vows have been made against me, and against me have your daily prayers been said.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

However, you remember the lines; and you remember how feelingly, how daintily, how almost imperceptibly the verses raise up before you, feature by feature, the ideal of a true and perfect woman; and how, as you contemplate the finished marvel, your homage grows into worship of the intellect that could create so fair a thing out of mere breath, mere words.
— from Sketches New and Old, Part 5. by Mark Twain

TROLOLLAY, s. A term which occurs in a rhyme used by young people, on the last day of the year, S. It has been viewed as a corr. of Fr. trois rois allois , three kings are come.
— from An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals by John Jamieson

I tell you, deacon, it takes a good deal of the horror out of those times when you have a case of the kind come right up before your eyes.
— from All He Knew: A Story by John Habberton

The second is a letter from you to the president of the road in which you say you want the poor-grade rails used because you don't want to increase the running expenses, and you order a general keeping-down of the road's expenses because of a plan for you three to unload your stock along about this December."
— from The Spider's Web by Reginald Wright Kauffman

The thing you love to do, and had fondly planned over, removed utterly beyond your reach and you compelled to fit in to something for which you have no taste.
— from Quiet Talks on Power by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon

These I think are all the particular facts on which you have asked my testimony, and I add with pleasure, and under a sense of duty, the declaration that the increase of rapidity in the movement of the mails which had been vainly attempted before, were readily undertaken by you on your entrance into office, and zealously and effectually carried into execution, and that the affairs of the office were conducted by you with ability and diligence, so long as I had opportunities of observing them.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson