Yet, that it is the condition for which woman was organized, has been insisted upon by the writers who have most vehemently argued in favour of the superiority of man; a superiority not in degree, but essence; though, to soften the argument, they have laboured to prove, with chivalrous generosity, that the sexes ought not to be compared; man was made to reason, woman to feel: and that together, flesh and spirit, they make the most perfect whole, by blending happily reason and sensibility into one character.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

So never will wine-red rose or white, Petal by petal, fall On that stretch of mud and sand that lies
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Then the robber ran back as fast as he could to his captain, and said, "Ah, there is a horrible witch sitting in the house, who spat on me and scratched my face with her long claws; and by the door stands a man with a knife, who stabbed me in the leg; and in the yard there lies a black monster, who beat me with a wooden club; and above, upon the roof, sits the judge, who called out, 'Bring the rogue here to me!'
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

I very soon started back from there, for the empty dog-kennel was filled up with a great dog—deep mouthed and black-haired like Him—and he was very angry at the sight of me, and sprang out to get at me.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

While I was looking for the matches to light a candle he sighed once more and said: “When I was in Harkov I went several times to the anatomy theatre and saw the bones there; I have even been in the mortuary.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The same old man and soul—the same old aspirations, and the same content.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Στάδιον, ου, τό, pl. στάδια & στάδιοι, pr. a fixed standard of measure; a stadium, the eighth part of a Roman mile, and nearly equal to a furlong, containing 201.45 yards, Lu. 24.13, et al.; a race-course, a race, 1 Co. 9.24.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

The whole crew, as in the infancy of the art, performed the double service of mariners and soldiers; they were provided with defensive and offensive arms, with bows and arrows, which they used from the upper deck, with long pikes, which they pushed through the portholes of the lower tier.
— 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

" With the word, he struck out manfully and swam round to the other side of the punt, only to find on arriving there that Peckover had disappeared.
— from A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William, Sir

He was an indefatigable scholar, of great modesty and simplicity of manners, and so highly esteemed by the citizens of Hamburgh, that when invited elsewhere, the senate prevailed on him by a superior salary, not to relinquish his residence among them.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

Those who do not care to read a long series of monographs and several large volumes in order to arrive at a knowledge of what recent ethnologists hold as true of Ancient Mexico may find the essence of accepted doctrine somewhat divertingly set forth in a paper written by Mr. Morgan in criticism of H. H. Bancroft's Native Races of the Pacific States .
— from William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck

Environment: subject to flooding; air and water pollution Note: strategic location along Strait of Malacca and southern South China Sea *Malaysia, People Population: 18,845,340 (July 1993 est.)
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Insert the needle into the edge of the hem and material, taking up a cluster of threads bring the thread under the needle to form a buttonhole stitch or make a simple stitch in the edge of the fold.
— from Textiles and Clothing by Kate Heintz Watson

A weak infusion of tea, with a superabundance of milk and sugar, is, on the other hand, highly conducive to the formation of fat, and therefore should be avoided.
— from Obesity, or Excessive Corpulence: The Various Causes and the Rational Means of Cure by J.-F. (Jean-François) Dancel

Less well known is the Ignis fatuus (Will-o'-the-Wisp, Jack-o'-Lantern, spunkie), a fire seen over marshes and stagnant pools, appearing as a pale bluish flame which may be fixed or move, steady or intermittent.
— from The Nature of Animal Light by E. Newton (Edmund Newton) Harvey

"The stickleback," observed Mr. Anerley, sententiously, when they drew near, "must be of very ancient lineage.
— from In Silk Attire: A Novel by William Black