People come and tell me they've seen you together, and I have to smile and nod and pretend it hasn't the slightest significance for me.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

it so fell out he met A spider's ambuscaded net, And perished, eaten in mid-air.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

And some goods are continually present, such as virtue; and some are not always present, as joy, or taking a walk.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

We can consequently explain genius as the faculty of aesthetical Ideas ; by which at the same time is shown the reason why in the products of genius it is the nature (of the subject) and not a premeditated purpose that gives the rule to the art (of the production of the beautiful).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

For neither was it a paradise only physical for the advantage of the body, and not also spiritual for the advantage of the mind; nor was it only spiritual to afford enjoyment to man by his internal sensations, and not also physical to afford him enjoyment through his external senses.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The reaction whose time is measured is , in short, a reflex action pure and simple, and not a psychic act .
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

30 Their ambassadors, being introduced into the senate, spoke as near as possible to this purport: "Conscript fathers, the Campanian state has sent us to you, to solicit from you friendship for ever, and present aid, which if we had solicited whilst our affairs were prosperous, as it would have commenced more readily, so would it have been bound by a weaker tie.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Attynu, v. to pull, or draw back Attywallt, v. to regurgitate Athlygu, v. to glance over Athost, a. pungent, severe Athrai, n. a falling away Athrais, n. violence, force Athraw, n. a teacher, a master Athrawd, n. calumny Athrawedig, a. instructed Athrawiaeth, n. instruction Athrawiaethu, to indoctrinate, to instruct Athrawu, n. ontology, v. to instruct Athrawus, a. instructive Athrechu, v. to vanquish Athref, n. a domain, a mansion Athrefiad, n. domestication Athrefig, a. domestic, homely Athrefniad, n. regulation Athreiddio, v. to penetrate Athreigliad, n. revolution Athreio, v. to diminish Athrem, n. a glance, a look Athrig, n. a stay, a delay Athrin, n. a conflict Athrist, a. very sad, pensive Athrodi, v. to caluminate, to slander Athrodiad, n. caluminiating Athrofa, n. an academy Athroniaeth, n. philosophy Athru, a. very pitiful, or vile Athrugar, a. pitiful; vast Athrwch, n. a cut through Athrwm, a. very heavy Athrwst, n. a great noise Athrwydd, a. very fluent Athrylith, n. intuition; genius Athrylithgar, a. intuitive Athrywyn, n. happiness, pacification Athu, v. to go, to proceed Athyn, a. very tenacious Athywyll, a. tenebrous Athywys, v. to conduct Au, n. the liver: v. to go, to proceed Auad, n. affection of a liver Aul, n. dung, manure, soil Auon, a currency; a halfpenny, a scruple Aur, n. gold; a golden Aw, n. a fluid; a flowing Awch, n. edge; ardency Awchiad, n. acuteness Awchlym, a. sharp-edged Awchlymu, to sharpen, to point Awchu, v. to sharpen Awchus, a. keen; greedy Awd, n. season, opportunity Awdl, n. an ode; rhyme Awdurdod, n. authority Awdurdodi, v. authorize Awduriaeth, n. authorship Awdwl, Awdlau, n. opportunity Awdwr, n. an author Awel, n. a gale, a breeze, wind Awelaidd, a. like a soft gale Awelan, n. a gale, a breeze Awelog, a. breezy, windy Awelu, v. to blow a soft gale Awen, n. genious; fancy; taste Awenol, a. poetical Awenu, v. to smile; to simper Awenydd, n. a poet, a genius Awenyddiaeth, n. poetry Awenyddol, a. poetical Awg, n. keeness; eagerness Awgrym, n. a sign; a beckoning Awgrymu, v. to make signs Awl, n. primeval light; praise Awn, n. a flowing together of atoms, or particles Awr, n. an hour.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

The muscles of these five thoracic segments are numerous and powerful; they are also complicated, chiefly owing to the segments on their dorsal and dorso-lateral surfaces being driven, like wedges, one into the other.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

As they came to Landisville and drove into the big churchyard there were already many carriages standing in the shade of the long open shed and numerous automobiles parked in the sunny yard.
— from Amanda: A Daughter of the Mennonites by Anna Balmer Myers

This was obvious enough, and the remedy as obvious,—separate bedrooms, and a month's holiday in each year to be spent apart (notoriously all people of quality had separate bedrooms, and see how happy they were!).
— from The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance by Richard Le Gallienne

As soon as such symptoms are noted, a physician should be summoned or the victim taken to a hospital.
— from Poisonous Dwellers of the Desert by Natt N. (Natt Noyes) Dodge

↑ 6 I give the story, as near as possible, in the words which the pious faith of the narrator prompted her to use.
— from Roman Legends: A collection of the fables and folk-lore of Rome by Rachel Harriette Busk

The demeanour of the more serious and best-paid girls showed absolutely no arrière pensée , and better than anybody else they knew what was what in the real world.
— from Lilian by Arnold Bennett

'I have not so much confidence in you,' laughingly returned the other; and, handing him a silver-hafted penknife curiously embossed, 'I am told that knives and scissors are not acceptable presents to the fair, as they are supposed to cut love, so I have no fear that Almira will get this—and I know that no other human being would cause you to forget your friend.'
— from The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 4, December, 1834 by Various

The senses are not, as Plato and Malebranche have too often said, a prison for the soul, but much rather windows looking out upon nature, through which the soul communicates with the universe.
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

"'Tis but twenty minutes short of noon, and thou not in the saddle and not a piece of thine armour girded on.
— from Edgar the Ready: A Tale of the Third Edward's Reign by W. P. Shervill

[42] the other company, sat and nibbled a piece of a wheaten straw very busily.
— from Æsop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by Aesop