“It isn’t right for anybody to take that name in vain or speak it lightly, Davy.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The morning shadowes weare away, But these grow longer all the day, But oh, loves day is short, if love decay.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

"'Why, you were—sort of—angry with me, Astafy Ivanovitch, the other day, you were vexed and promised to put me to sleep in the porch, so I didn't—sort of—venture to come in, Astafy Ivanovitch, and so I lay down here....'
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I speak of this here because Rosalie's almost ascetic indifference to material matters, in direct contrast to Perry's vivid enjoyment of the good things of life, came to have a tragic significance in later days.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

Well, I could wish, that still in lordly domes Some beasts were killed, though not whole hecatombs; That both extremes were banished from their walls, Carthusian fasts, and fulsome bacchanals; And all mankind might that just mean observe, In which none e’er could surfeit, none could starve.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

"But you said that you should be perfectly contented if it only cost you £20,000 to marry off your sister (to whom that sum is legally due), and to marry yourself to the heiress."
— from The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

Steinitz is liberally disposed to others in mind and purse.
— from Chess History and Reminiscences by H. E. (Henry Edward) Bird

Having seen that the ocean steam mail service is largely developed in some countries, especially in Great Britain, and that the second and third commercial powers of the world, the United States and France, have not largely employed this important agent in their commerce, the inquiry naturally arises, whether fast ocean steam mails are desirable and necessary to the commercial prosperity of a people.
— from Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post by Thomas Rainey

Good Evil Four Square Irregular Looking down these two lists we shall see that the first covers various aspects of what is conceived as the ordering, defining, formative principle in nature; and that the second in like manner comprises various {25} aspects of the unordered, neutral, passive, or disorganised element or principle; the first, to adopt a later method of expression, is Form , the second Matter .
— from A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. (John) Marshall

He had not at that period of his life succeeded in living down his architectural training, and as a result the most ignorant layman was in a better position to appraise the relative merits of these three so different incarnations of the building impulse than was he.
— from Architecture and Democracy by Claude Fayette Bragdon

B-girls usually work in pairs, so I looked down toward the other end of the polished mahogany.
— from Vigorish by John Berryman

I was led into a comfortable, clean-smelling stall with plenty of dry straw, and after a capital supper, I lay down, thinking I was going to be happy.
— from Black Beauty, Young Folks' Edition by Anna Sewell