If one should require a proof of how deeply and thoroughly the actually barbarous needs of man, even in his present state of tameness and "civilisation," still seek gratification, one should contemplate the "leitmotifs" of the whole of the evolution of philosophy:—a sort of revenge upon reality, a surreptitious process of destroying the values by means of which men live, a dissatisfied soul to which the conditions of discipline is one of torture, and which takes a particular pleasure in morbidly severing all the bonds that bind it to such a condition.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

n 1 string or rope used to lower s.t. 2 heavy object attached to s.t. to make it sink.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

While the peace of Germany was secured by the attachment of the Franks, and the neutrality of the Alemanni, the subjects of Rome, unconscious of their approaching calamities, enjoyed the state of quiet and prosperity, which had seldom blessed the frontiers of Gaul.
— 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

‘Not stop and—rest?’ said Ralph, who seldom offered refreshments unless something was to be got by it.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

While the old gentleman was thus engaged, a very buxom-looking cook, dressed in mourning, who had been bustling about, in the bar, glided into the room, and bestowing many smirks of recognition upon Sam, silently stationed herself at the back of his father’s chair, and announced her presence by a slight cough, the which, being disregarded, was followed by a louder one.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Taught by experience that proper dependence could not be placed on the success of requisitions, unable by its own authority to lay hold of fresh resources, and urged by considerations of national danger, would it not be driven to the expedient of diverting the funds already appropriated from their proper objects to the defense of the State?
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

It was already five days since she had left Windsor, for she had wandered about, always avoiding speech or questioning looks, and recovering her air of proud self-dependence whenever she was under observation, choosing her decent lodging at night, and dressing herself neatly in the morning, and setting off on her way steadily, or remaining under shelter if it rained, as if she had a happy life to cherish.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

apindiks ra diay, He breathed a sigh of relief upon finding out it was just appendicitis.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Dickens says he was haunted, possessed, spirit-driven by the plots and characters in his stories which would not let him sleep or rest until he had committed them to paper.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The prospect was not cheering, and as two or three of our staff officers rode upon the ground, the place seemed forbidding enough.
— from Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

His duty and sense of right urged him one way he told himself, and then, when he looked on May’s sweet, happy face he felt it almost impossible for him to be the one who could strike her so dire a blow.
— from A Country Sweetheart by Dora Russell

Standing back amid wide level lawns, high box-hedges, quaint old flower-gardens, and spreading cedars, about four miles out of Rugby on the Leicester road, it dominated a wide stretch of rich, undulating pastures of bright fresh green, so pleasing to the eye after the sun-baked, thirsty land of Italy.
— from Behind the Throne by William Le Queux

Then Molly heard some one run up a brilliant scale and strike a chord and a good baritone voice began singing: [90] “‘Oh, I’m a cook and a captain bold, And a mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo’sun tight and a midshipmatemite, And the crew of the captain’s gig.’” “Why don’t you join in, Eddie?
— from Molly Brown's Freshman Days by Nell Speed

“Fancy being troubled with dreams of surging oceans rising up the wrong way!”
— from Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

I beheld again the star of this "man of destiny" shine in glorious splendor at Maringo, Wagram, Austerlitz, Jena, Leipsic and Ulm, and then as First Consul and Emperor, sweeping with his unconquerable columns over the sands of Egypt and snows of Russia, until at last the fires and smoke of Moscow bedimmed the horizon of his glory, and lit up the funeral pyre of five hundred thousand of the best soldiers of France, led to their doom by the crazy ambition of a selfish tyrant!
— from Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. (John Alexander) Joyce

But the belief in miracle is no theoretic or objective mode of viewing the world and Nature; miracle realises practical wants, and that in contradiction with the laws which are imperative to the reason; in miracle man subjugates Nature, as in itself a nullity, to his own ends, which he regards as a reality; miracle is the superlative expression of spiritual or religious utilitarianism; in miracle all things are at the service of necessitous man.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach

He used to say to his intimate friends at the time that he would stand or resign upon his policy in Oude.
— from Lord Lawrence by Temple, Richard Carnac, Sir