The significance of life is doing something.
— 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.

Half-and-half , a mixture of ale and porter, much affected by medical students; occasionally Latinized into “dimidium dimidiumque.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Short of life indeed did my mother Laothoe bear me, daughter of aged Altes—of Altes who reigns over the warlike Lelegae and holds steep Pedasus on the river Satnioeis.
— from The Iliad by Homer

XXV THE SPIRIT OF LIFE I did as I was bid, and in fear and trembling felt myself guided over the edge of the stone.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

All men are born poor and naked, all are liable to the sorrows of life, its disappointments, its ills, its needs, its suffering of every kind; and all are condemned at length to die.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It was to this Age that we owe the Production of Anagrams 2 , which is nothing else but a Transmutation of one Word into another, or the turning of the same Set of Letters into different Words; which may change Night into Day, or Black into White, if Chance, who is the Goddess that presides over these Sorts of Composition, shall so direct.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

HALF AND HALF, a mixture of ale and porter, much affected by medical students; occasionally Latinized into DIMIDIUM DIMIDIUMQUE .
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Walking over these jagged surfaces of limestone is destructive to any shoes.
— from In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr

I, however, assured them that, having heard from my childhood of the smoke of London, its dimness and darkness, I found things much better than I had expected.
— from Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

A letter lay upon the bier, And this the word it bare: "O love is sweet, O love is dear, And followeth everywhere Whoso has drained the chalice stained With its red wine and rare.
— from The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

The traveller, whether by sea or land, is directed by certain common appearances, which answer equally for the direction both of the unlearned and of the man of the world.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

He sat quite still in the great arm-chair that his weight deftly balanced on its three legs, his head bent to a pose of attention, his cap slightly on one side of his long auburn locks, his eyes full of a sort of listening interest, divining even more than he heard.
— from The Storm Centre: A Novel by Mary Noailles Murfree

The mechanical stiffness, formerly much seen in British light infantry, arose, there can scarcely be a question, from the formality of our old ordinary mode of applying the system of light infantry drill.
— from The Essentials of Good Skirmishing To which are added a brief system of common light infantry drill by George Gawler

Gypsum or alabaster is used to clear cloudy white wines; as also fresh slaked lime; and the size of a walnut of sugar of lead, with a table spoonful of sal enixum, is put to forty gallons of muddy wine, to clear it; and hence, as the sugar of lead is decomposed, and changed into an insoluble sulphat of lead, which falls to the bottom, the practice is not so dangerous as has been represented.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827 by Various

As the young man's eyes became used to the darkness, he could see upon the cots that thickly littered the floor the forms of men sprawled out, lying in deathlike silence, or heaving and snoring with tremendous effort, like stabbed fish.
— from Men, Women, and Boats by Stephen Crane