Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
— 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.

And so I beg you either to alter your line of conduct and return to duties in keeping with your rank, or to avoid setting a bad example, remove to another district where you are not known, and where you can follow any occupation you please.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In a world where it means so much to take a man by the hand and sit beside him, to look frankly into his eyes and feel his heart beating with red blood; in a world where a social cigar or a cup of tea together means more than legislative halls and magazine articles and speeches,—one can imagine the consequences of the almost utter absence of such social amenities between estranged races, whose separation extends even to parks and streetcars.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Dey’s de dadblamedest creturs to ’sturb a body, en rustle roun’ over ’im, en bite his feet, when he’s tryin’ to sleep, I ever see.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Rechnung bezahlen pay an account eine Rechnung bezahlen settle a bill eine Rechtsfrage a point of law eine Regel anwenden apply a rule eine Regel durchsetzen enforce a rule eine Regel übernehmen to adopt a rule eine Reihe von Handlungen a series of acts eine Reihe von Regeln bieten provide a set of rules
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

The time was short but she wrote urgent letters to Lucy Stone, Antoinette Brown, Ernestine Rose and Lucretia Mott.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

On tower and temple porch and gate Let banners wave in royal state, And be each roof and terrace lined
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

It is by a previous cultivation of their moral powers, we may hope to influence their religious belief; it is by teaching them to love us, that we can lead them to listen to us; it is by inspiring them with respect for our virtues, that we can give them a confidence in our doctrine: but this has not always been the system adopted by European reformers, and the religion we proffer them is seldom illustrated by its influence on our own lives.
— from The Missionary: An Indian Tale; vol. III by Lady (Sydney) Morgan

During the next three years Edward persisted in the line of policy 2-213] he had adopted, retaining his hold over Southern Scotland, aiding his sub-king Balliol in campaign after campaign against the despairing efforts of the nobles who still adhered to the house of Bruce, a party who were now headed by Robert the Steward of Scotland and by Earl Randolph of Moray.
— from History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by John Richard Green

The Sunflower would watch all this from a distance, and in silence; and her heart would become glad, for well she knew where the choicest of the game killed by Wawandah’s hand would be laid—at his sister’s feet with a look of such touching eloquence of prayer for its acceptance that the very anticipation took from her loneliness in absence; and she was always right, for never on one occasion did Wawandah fail, and when he had given of the best to the wife of the White Bear, his soft and beautiful eyes rendered more lustrous by the deep hectic overspreading his brown cheek, would thank him with such expression of silent eloquence, that her own heart would invariably flutter, and her own cheek flush with as deep a crimson.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5, November 1850 by Various

Those of each state and territory are printed annually or biennially as they are enacted by each legislature, and are commonly revised every fifteen or twenty years, the revision taking the place of all former public statutes, and being entitled Revised Statutes, General Statutes, or Public Laws.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Gerard admits we cannot paint what we have not seen, and by example rather condemns his own recommendations.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

Of all tests of true love a honeymoon is the severest, and by every right of sensible sequence ought to come last of all in the history of married couples.
— from To Leeward by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Some people said one thing and some another, but even Rupert did not know the truth.
— from The Mandarin's Fan by Fergus Hume

Jess, the Scotch collie, who was always left to guard the tents in their owners' absence, sat at her usual post within the door; and she and Brown exchanged repressed growls at the strangers.
— from The Cursed Patois From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 by Mary Hartwell Catherwood