[6] This is simply the greatest happiness which can exist, by reason of sympathy and several other laws of human nature.
— from On Love by Stendhal

They found a most worthy editor in the late distinguished Sir George Cornewall Lewis, and a translator equally qualified for his task, in the Reverend James Davies, M.A., sometime a scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford, and himself a relation of their English editor.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

And with that she began nursing her child again, singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a violent shake at the end of every line: "Speak roughly to your little boy, And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases."
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

But he had considered this step anew since our late confidence and had decided on taking it, if it only served to show me through one poor instance that the whole world would readily unite to falsify the stern prediction of my childhood.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Assuredly it is not less absurd to assert that extended substance is made up of bodies or parts, than it would be to assert that a solid is made up of surfaces, a surface of lines, and a line of points.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Ab′lative, a term applied to a case of nouns, adjectives, and pronouns in Latin, Sanskrit, and some other languages; originally given to the case in Latin because separation from ( ab , from latus , taken) was considered to be one of the chief ideas expressed by the case.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

"I saw a streak of light under one of the blinds as I drove up: it's extraordinary that I can never teach that woman to draw them down evenly.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

2 And from the burning of the fire Adam and Eve screamed, and said, "O Lord, save us!
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

In 1915-16 Anderson had begun to write and in 1919 he published the stories that comprise Winesburg, Ohio, stories that form, in sum, a sort of loosely-strung episodic novel.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

, king of France, son and successor of Louis XI.; during his minority the kingdom suffered from the turbulence and revolts of the nobles; married Anne of Brittany, heiress of the rich duchy of that name, by which it was added to the crown of France; sacrificed the interests of his kingdom by war with Italy to support the claims of French princes to the throne of Naples, which, though successful in a military point of view, proved politically unfruitful (1470-1498).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

The ivy clinging to the oak destroys the life of its supporter, and sooner or later they fall together."
— from The Chariot of the Flesh by Hedley Peek

He approached slowly, showing a sort of lethargic reluctance towards effort which extended even to the muscles of his almost expressionless face.
— from Juggernaut by Alice Campbell

Then on the foraminifera , which secretes a shell of lime from the water.
— from A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga: The Yoga of Wisdom by William Walker Atkinson

There are the voices of the wood-dwellers,—not songs alone, but calls and utterances of many kinds from birds; cries and scolding of squirrels, who have a répertoire astonishing to those who do not know them; squawks and squeals of little animals more often heard than seen; and, not least, the battle-cries of the winged hosts "who come with songs to greet you" wherever and whenever you may appear.
— from Upon The Tree-Tops by Olive Thorne Miller

Only in that brief interval at the birth of day, when the rose tints of the sky glow slowly into gold, does the giant metropolis repose—at least, as far as its business streets are concerned—for at five o’clock the toiling millions begin to again pour in from all points of the compass, and the stress and storm of London life at once recommences.
— from The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the siege of London by William Le Queux

Little Marguerite had a soft heart, thirsting after love, and she had so small a share of love alloted her in life!
— from Through Night to Light: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

The mines from which most minerals, such as sulphuret of lead (galena) or of copper, are drawn, belong to the second class, or those whose shafts “cut” the vein of mineral at a very acute angle.
— from The Boy's Book of Industrial Information by Elisha Noyce

In this manner, combining the movements of my hand in front with those of my excited weapon in the rear, I managed to pour my tribute into him at the same time that he sent a shower of love's balsam spouting beyond the bed far into the room.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

Throughout it remained constant in certain features, namely, the local character of its gods, their usefulness to the dead (their Chthonian aspect), their tendency to be merged into the sun, Ra, the great type and symbol and source of life, and, finally, their inability to shake off the fur and feathers of the beasts, the earliest form of their own development.
— from Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang