And two of them were to the effect that a man, who has been our guest here, was declaring last night at the Club that my views on various subjects are extremely emancipated— Dr. Stockmann.
— from An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

On the way, she encountered a great wholesale shoe company, through the broad plate windows of which she saw an enclosed executive department, hidden by frosted glass.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

[Greek: phusis bebion ou ta chraematatheoi reia xoontes][1] [Footnote 1: Odyssey IV., 805.] Look on these two pictures—the life of the masses, one long, dull record of struggle and effort entirely devoted to the petty interests of personal welfare, to misery in all its forms, a life beset by intolerable boredom as soon as ever those aims are satisfied and the man is thrown back upon himself, whence he can be roused again to some sort of movement only by the wild fire of passion.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

He accordingly chained him to a rock in Mount Caucasus, and sent an eagle every day to gnaw away his liver, which grew again every night ready for fresh torments.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

[817] aget econtra ( petulanti splene cum sit ) sufflabit te in jocos, comminuet in sales, addo etiam, et deo risui te sacrificabit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The truth was, she felt the same after every encounter, dramatizing each man, and flinging herself romantically on a sea of her imagining.
— from The Salamander by Owen Johnson

An English Jew is an Englishman, admires English habits and English education, makes an excellent magistrate, plays to perfection the part of a squire, and even exercises discreetly the power which, with its inexhaustible oddity, the English law gives him, while it denies it to the members of the largest Christian sect, and presents incumbents
— from The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Of special interest in this regard is Professor Budge's mature and well-deliberated conclusion that "both the Sumerians and early Egyptians derived their primeval gods from some common but exceedingly ancient source".
— from Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald A. (Donald Alexander) Mackenzie

In the second section (on soils), we learned that some soils contain every thing necessary to make the ashes of all plants, and in sufficient quantity to supply what is required, while other soils are either entirely deficient in one or more ingredients, or contain so little of them that they are unfertile for certain plants.
— from The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools by George E. (George Edwin) Waring

Since now in my conscience I am firmly persuaded of this, I owe this gratefulness and obedience to God, who has shown me such unspeakable grace, that, as I desire to obtain eternal salvation and escape eternal damnation, I do not fall away from the truth of His almighty will which His Word has revealed to me, and which I know to be the truth.
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

A simpler and equally efficient dress may be made of a black net bag, large enough to be drawn over a straw or felt hat, with a brim sufficiently wide to keep the net away from the prominent organ, the [Pg 76] nose, and long enough to be buttoned into the Bee-master's coat.
— from Buzz a Buzz; Or, The Bees by Wilhelm Busch

His first care, therefore, was to despatch five hundred of his best forest-fighters, divided into twenty bands of twenty-five each, into the forest, to dig pits, plant stakes, and employ every device known to them to delay and harass the advance.
— from Tom Burnaby: A Story of Uganda and the Great Congo Forest by Herbert Strang

Nor did the complete reduction of the country, judging from the relative numbers, the condition of both armies, and the territories occupied by them, seem an end either distant or difficult to accomplish.
— from The battle-fields of Ireland, from 1688 to 1691 including Limerick and Athlone, Aughrim and the Boyne. Being an outline history of the Jacobite war in Ireland, and the causes which led to it by Boyle, John, active 1867