But when you come to women, women all belong to the kite species: no one ought to waste a good turn upon one of them; it’s just like throwing it down a well!
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Barney Stims SATYR, n. One of the few characters of the Grecian mythology accorded recognition in the Hebrew.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

2. I do not readily remember any poem, play, sermon, novel, or oration, that our press vents in the last few years, which goes to the same tune.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

These points, it is true, should be discussed in a council of both generals and ministers, and to these points should the control of the council be limited; for if it should not only order the general in command to march to Vienna or to Paris, but should also have the presumption to indicate the manner in which he should maneuver to attain this object, the unfortunate general would certainly be beaten, and the whole responsibility of his reverses should fall upon the shoulders of those who, hundreds of miles distant, took upon themselves the duty of directing the army,—a duty so difficult for any one, even upon the scene of operations.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Experiences might have all been singulars, no one of them occurring twice.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

He could not bear the thought, and softly drawing on his boots, and taking his hat from the nail on which she had hung it, he slipped noiselessly out of the house.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Then endeavor by your own graceful ease to cover any embarrassment your entrance may have caused, make but a short call, and, if you can, leave your friends under the impression that you saw nothing out of the way when you entered.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

When the buffaloes are feeding in the jungle, and wandering here and there to find good grass to eat, they always try to remain somewhere near one of these streams.
— from The Wonders of the Jungle, Book One by Sarath Kumar Ghosh

When professional education confers nothing but irritation on a Schiller, no one ought to be surprised; for Schiller, and such as he, are primarily spiritual adventurers.
— from The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry by Walter Pater

There was nothing to be seen now out of the window but the snow-filled [320] darkness, the blurred lights of lower Quebec and the line of dock-lights five hundred feet under us.
— from Astounding Stories, March, 1931 by Various

It was Larry who spoke, as he rushed up to his old friend, Luke Striker, now one of the gun captains on board the Olympia .
— from The Campaign of the Jungle; Or, Under Lawton through Luzon by Edward Stratemeyer

The cousins were standing near one of the long, richly draped windows, and the silken hangings had fluttered suddenly.
— from The Unseen Bridegroom; Or, Wedded For a Week by May Agnes Fleming

On Sunday noon, one of the cavalrymen came riding into camp in hot haste, and nearly out of breath.
— from Our Battery; Or, The Journal of Company B, 1st O.V.A. by O. P. (Orlando Phelps) Cutter

It is not improbable that a number of persons, not admitted into the senate when it was instituted, were placed by public act on the same level with the senators as to the new patrician rank; but this would include a small number only of the members of the three hundred gentes, all of whom were embraced in the Populus Romanus .
— from Ancient Society Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization by Lewis Henry Morgan

He and Ian and Pòl were grimly silent, not only on the path through the wind-swept heather, but when under shelter from a bight of hillside or overhanging crag.
— from Pharais; and, The Mountain Lovers by William Sharp