Early in 1918, the São Paulo government bought about 3,000,000 bags.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

But even the satisfaction of the sexual passions goes beyond the assertion of one's own existence, which fills so short a time, and asserts life for an indefinite time after the death of the individual.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

—Some people govern because of their passion for governing; others in order that they may not be governed,—the latter choose it as the lesser of two evils.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

ANT: Smooth, sweet, pleasant, goodnatured, bland.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Yet these are at too great a distance: some are especially affected with such objects as be near, to see passengers go by in some great roadway, or boats in a river, in subjectum forum despicere , to oversee a fair, a marketplace, or out of a pleasant window into some thoroughfare street, to behold a continual concourse, a promiscuous rout, coming and going, or a multitude of spectators at a theatre, a mask, or some such like show.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

"My heart leaped with joy to find my secret prayer granted by the omniscient guru.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Padak-a (padakua) ang kamúti, Let the sweet potatoes grow big.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

POLL, strip, plunder, gain by extortion.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

“He is just what a young man ought to be,” said she, “sensible, good-humoured, lively; and I never saw such happy manners!—so much ease, with such perfect good breeding!”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

I mounted the corkscrew tower, and got to the broken stone lantern they call St. Michael's chair; an uncomfortable job, but rewarded by a splendid panorama, gilt by the setting sun: in the chapel too, I descended into a miserable dungeon communicating with a monk's stall, where doubtless some self-immured penitent had wasted life away, only coming to the light for [Pg 50] matins, and only relieved from solitary imprisonment by midnight mass.
— from My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper

Mrs. Amesfort, the daughter, still possessed great beauty, which a shade of pensive thought, sometimes amounting to deep melancholy, rendered even more lovely.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 1 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

"They were chronic," said Pyecroft gravely, "but I didn't anticipate any danger till the Circus left.
— from Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling

Here Demetrio Damilas, the Cretan of Milanese descent, is anxious enough to advertise himself: perhaps all the more anxious because his name seems to have been suppressed in the case of some previous Greek books in which he may have had a share.
— from An Essay on Colophons, with Specimens and Translations by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard

I let several people go by without questioning them, and those I did ask abashed me farther by not knowing what I wanted to know.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

”‘Do you live there?’ said Pierre, glancing back to the wine-shop.
— from The Little Old Portrait by Mrs. Molesworth