Must we not suppose that the highest and indeed the truly serious task of art—to free the eye from its glance into the horrors of night and to deliver the "subject" by the healing balm of appearance from the spasms of volitional agitations—will degenerate under the influence of its idyllic seductions and Alexandrine adulation to an empty dissipating tendency, to pastime?
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This is a feeling of partaking of an entirely new dish, met with both expectancy and with suspicion, accentuated by the hallowed traditions surrounding it which has rewarded us for the time and expense devoted to the subject.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

After them, at equal distance, the Dragon and the Centaur strive to win the foremost room; and now the Dragon has it, now the vast Centaur outstrips and passes her; now they dart on both together, their stems in a line, and their keels driving long furrows through the salt water-ways.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

low Alexandra hearkened to them to an extraordinary degree, as being herself a woman of great piety towards God.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

On the other hand, that part of the nutriment which is roasted, so to speak, or burnt (this will be the warmest and sweetest part of it, like honey and fat), becomes yellow bile , and is cleared away through the so-called biliary 293 vessels; now, this is thin, moist, and fluid, not like what it is when, having been roasted to an excessive degree, it becomes yellow, fiery, and thick, like the yolk of Pg 213 Greek text eggs; for this latter is already abnormal, while the previously mentioned state is natural.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Twas an excellent dance, and for a preface I never heard a better.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“Nearly 400 noblemen and gentlemen sat down to an elegant dinner in the Assembly Rooms, the Rt. Hon.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

She has taken an expensive detached bungalow with a big garden, and put into it all her town furniture.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Its habits, extraordinary behavior, and notes render it still more deserving of consideration; and to all this must be added the fact that wild turkeys are magnificent game birds; the hunting of them peculiarly attractive to the [27] sportsman; while, finally, they are easily domesticated and therefore have a great commercial value everywhere.
— from The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting by Charles L. Jordan

On the difficult question of the almost entire disappearance of organs, as in the limbs of snakes and of some lizards, he adduces "a certain form of correlation, which Roux calls 'the struggle of the parts in the organism,'" as playing an important part.
— from Darwinism (1889) An exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications by Alfred Russel Wallace

During the Spanish War, the ovations accorded to the Spanish “heroes” were often decidedly beyond the limits of good taste; and even during the Civil War, when the embitterment was extreme, people outdid themselves in their kind treatment of the prisoners.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

He knew that, and each day had its own little battle-ground.
— from The Ranch at the Wolverine by B. M. Bower

Some of them are extremely difficult to account for unless its true home was in the king's courts.
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick

The Goth was determined in the ambitious pursuit of power, the Archbishop equally determined in the conscientious discharge of duty.
— from Saint John Chrysostom, His Life and Times A sketch of the church and the empire in the fourth century by W. R. W. (William Richard Wood) Stephens

He considered Lyone to possess spiritual beauty to an extraordinary degree.
— from The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw

E. F. E. + Boston Transcript p6 D 8 ‘17 1700w “Never has the intellectual beauty of the Victorian age been more truly and eloquently defined, ever has it been more brilliantly and sympathetically exemplified than by Viscount Morley’s ‘Recollections.’”
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

I hope I shall remember it, though I do plead guilty of late to an extraordinary desire for finery of all sorts.
— from Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

It is always desirable to select a site that is approximately level or with only enough fall to assure easy drainage.
— from Cacao Culture in the Philippines by William Scrugham Lyon