Apple plum, carpet steak, seed clam, colored wine, calm seen, cold cream, best shake, potato, potato and no no gold work with pet, a green seen is called bake and change sweet is bready, a little piece a little piece
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

Its value, in its proper place, cannot be overrated by any Peace Congress or by any peace pamphlet; but we have endeavoured to make it clear that this sphere is but a limited one.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Our common safety must be now the care; But soon as morning paints the fields of air, Sheathed in bright arms let every troop engage, And the fired fleet behold the battle rage.
— from The Iliad by Homer

I heard a door open and shut on the fifth storey, as I panted along; the stairs were narrow, and the steps innumerable, but at last I reached the door I thought the right one.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“As to the latter part, I have no means of checking you,” said I, “but at least it is not difficult to find out a few particulars about the man’s age and professional career.”
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

348-386) In one passage the poet seems inspired by his subject, and expresses a strong idea by a lively image:— Hinc Vandalus hostis Urget; et in nostrum numerosa classe quotannis Militat excidium; conversoque ordine Fati Torrida Caucaseos infert mihi Byrsa furoree] Such crimes could not be excused by any provocations; but the war, which the king of the Vandals prosecuted against the Roman empire was justified by a specious and reasonable motive.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

That diversity which defines the sexual character of beings of the same species, is but a link in that extended chain of differential gradation which marks its progress through the whole animal kingdom.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Now, Tybalt, take the 'villain' back again That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company.
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

She is bathed, and lodged in a separate room as before, and the four days’ pollution is observed.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

To remoter worlds shall it be a light, and also to remotest nights!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The stem is broad and long and expanded by shallow diagonal notches.
— from Handbook of Alabama Archaeology: Part I, Point Types by James W. Cambron

"I knew that my story sounded improbable, but after learning what you knew about my mother it seemed to me that you would be even less likely to believe me, so I thought the best thing I could do was to keep silence, and trust to the truth coming to light in some other way."
— from The Hand in the Dark by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

"Then, thank Heaven, the spell is broken at last," said the colonel, "and the White Phantom has ceased to haunt the Green Chamber."
— from The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage

He appears to be suffering from nervous shock, they say, increased by a long strain of anxiety.
— from On the Firing Line by Anna Chapin Ray

As I have been during the past six weeks, so shall I be as long as I live, except that I shall grow more bitter and resentful.
— from The Story of a Country Town by E. W. (Edgar Watson) Howe

Designed by its authors to deprive their adversaries of access to Muslim courts, and thereby place them in a perplexing and embarrassing situation, it became a lever which the Egyptian Bahá’í community, followed later by its sister-communities, readily utilized for the purpose of asserting the independence of its Faith and of seeking for it the recognition of its government.
— from God Passes By by Effendi Shoghi

No man would wish to sit idly by and lose the opportunity to take part in such a struggle.
— from Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) Tumulty

A woman is much in our life when she is Beatrice and Laura, and better still.
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac

The great sun is but a longer candle that burns out also.
— from The Doctor's Christmas Eve by James Lane Allen

The mammals of its early Eocene ages were comparatively [Pg 175] small in bulk and low in standing; in its concluding ages, too, immediately ere the appearance of man, or just as he had appeared, they exhibited, both in size and number, a reduced and less imposing aspect.
— from The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller