Nothing in my idea, either at that time or since, could exceed a rustic repast; give me milk, vegetables, eggs, and brown bread, with tolerable wine and I shall always think myself sumptuously regaled; a good appetite will furnish out the rest, if the maitre d’ hotel, with a number of unnecessary footmen, do not satiate me with their important attentions.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In such cases ease and rapidity of motion will be most likely to insure safety.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

The marks are always placed on the left-hand side, so that the stragglers can easily and readily find them.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

SYN: Close, exact, accurate, rigorous, severe, stringent, nice, precise.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The road was full of buggies, all bound for the hotel, and laughter, silver clear, echoed and reechoed along it.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

In some cases, even, although rarely, the spirit of revenge and intensified hostility may bring about an opposite result.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

As we shall see, cruel expiations are relatively rare; even the painful and obligatory mutilations of the initiations are not of this character.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The persistent hostility of Mrs Bateman was ever on the watch to defeat his every move; and as to this, even, there were times when it seemed to him that Nidia was a trifle too acquiescent in the latter’s objectionable and scarcely concealed efforts at railing him off.
— from John Ames, Native Commissioner: A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Bertram Mitford

A study of Harrisse, and reference to the original authorities (after writing the note on the Pinzon and Solis voyage at p. 284 of my Life of Columbus ), has led me to make several corrections, especially as regards the date of 1506 given by Herrera.
— from The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career by Amerigo Vespucci

In this experiment, without exception, the spoken command evoked adequate reactions,—the silent command, an incorrect response.
— from Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Oskar Pfungst

Boyle walked home shortly afterwards, feeling, however, dizzy, and being uncertain in his gait; these unpleasant symptoms continued even after reaching his house.
— from The Law and Medical Men by R. Vashon (Robert Vashon) Rogers

But the creation is as bright, strong, clear, enduring, and real, as if it were embodied.
— from Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Henry White Warren

At last, on climbing over a steep hill which had intercepted their view, they came on a lovely panorama, with a background of blue mountains tipped with snow; a wooded glen, in which the brown convent nestled, and a wild moor foreground, across which long strings of mules with gay trappings, driven by peasants in Spanish costumes, exactly as represented in Ansdell's paintings, were wending their way toward the city.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various