Merely to know the truth did not satisfy me: I felt that I must really possess it, and live on its substance.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

The mere fact of offering the first-fruits to the gods or spirits comes now to be thought a sufficient preparation for eating the new corn; the higher powers having received their share, man is free to enjoy the rest.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Spectrum analysis has shown it to contain antimony, bismuth, iron, mercury, hydrogen, sodium, calcium, &c. Aldeburgh (a ¨ ld′bu-ru), a municipal borough of England, on the coast of Suffolk, more important formerly than it is now, having suffered from encroachments of the sea.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

when there is such music, in fact, that one wants at the same time to cry and to sing aloud.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If these speculative adventures do not turn out well, the scientific man is free to turn about and become the critic and satirist of his foiled ambitions.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The word is also found in the Dictionary of the Spanish Academy (vol. vi. of the year 1739) in the sense of an innate discernment of moral principles, where a quotation is given from Madre Maria de Jesus, abbess of the convent of the Conception at Agreda, a mystical writer of the seventeenth century, frequently consulted by Philip IV.,—and again in the Bolognese Dictionary of 1824, with a similar meaning, illustrated from the writings of Salvini (1653-1729).
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

It thus saves much in freight to parts where the potato does not grow.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

They pawned some of the few clothes they possessed, and buying some musical instruments formed themselves into a band of strolling musicians.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

The green colour, so strongly recommended by our divine prophet, strikes my eyes, and at the same moment I feel that my soul is wrapped up in a calm so delightful that I fancy myself nearer the Creator.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The spiritual man is free to rule his world, not his world to rule him.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Dotti closed the season by singing "Margherita" in Faust the same evening.
— from The Mapleson Memoirs, 1848-1888, vol I by James Henry Mapleson

Thereupon the merchant rode on, and upon reaching Week S. Mary inquired for the house of the parents of Thomasine and laid his offer before them.
— from Cornish Characters and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

While I indulge the record of these trivialities, which I am by no means sure the reader will care for so much, I feel that it would be wrong to let him remain as ignorant of the history of Valladolid as I was while there.
— from Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells

He seems to have got in again with his café set; more in fact than he likes and clearly more than he owns up to."
— from The Road to the Open by Arthur Schnitzler

Tarvrille's notes recorded his repeated attempts to see me, I felt that he alone was capable of clearing up things for me, and I went out again at once and telegraphed to him for an appointment.
— from The Passionate Friends by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

She made it fast; then, getting behind the houseboat, she pushed while Harriet rowed.
— from The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat; Or, the Stormy Cruise of the Red Rover by Janet Aldridge

Some while I spent in ranging hither and thither, without happening on such an hostelry as did please me (for I confess to a niceness in these matters); but at length, coming into a place where two streets met, I found there a very decent quiet house that answered to my wishes so well that I immediately entered and bespoke a chamber for the night.
— from Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Arthur Frederick Wallis

In delamination, when the segmentation is not uniform, or when a solid morula is formed, the differentiation of the epiblast and hypoblast is effected by the separation of the central solid mass of cells from the peripheral cells ( fig.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

" "Truly," said the alcalde, "'tis a duty I would rather avoid: I am a poor sinful man, ill fitted to grapple with the powers of darkness; whereas holy men, like my lord bishop and the good friar, can have nothing to fear.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 567, September 22, 1832 by Various

Not so much I fear to lose the corse (For that's sure gone, the fowls of Troy and dogs will quickly force That piece-meal) as I fear my head, and thine, O Atreus' son.
— from The Iliads of Homer Translated according to the Greek by Homer