One would be chilled through and through, half dazed, and turn as cruel as the frost oneself: I would pull one by the ear so that I nearly pulled the ear off; I would smack another on the back of the head;
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He did the same with the left cheek, then with the chin, and the forehead, and then exclaimed: “See, there is nothing there now, nothing at all!”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

For, it being once furnished with simple ideas, it can put them together in several compositions, and so make variety of complex ideas, without examining whether they exist so together in nature.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

how it torments me to find myself so unable to give an account of my Victualling business, which puts me out of heart in every thing else, so that I never had a greater shame upon me in my owne mind, nor more trouble as to publique business than I have now, but I will get out of it as soon as possibly I can.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Under such circumstances, and the regular practice of them, the English system is seldom wanting, and it at once wipes out the difficulty which is made much of—that under the English system there is no way of indicating the difference between the arms of uncle and nephew.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Such judgments are all obviously liable to error, since there is no correlation of which we have a right to be certain that it is invariable.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

At p. 31 of the Forewords, the editor says there is no evidence for attributing 'Scoggins Iests' to Borde.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer

This finale is the grandest number in the entire score; there is no other situation in which there is such variety and power.
— from Verdi: Man and Musician His Biography with Especial Reference to His English Experiences by Frederick James Crowest

Often, even in the elementary school, there is need for the children to get facts,--information in history or geography or literature,--and the getting of these facts from books would be too difficult or too wasteful.
— from How to Teach by Naomi Norsworthy

I had to get up too early, so there is no doubt what I said was said very awkwardly indeed.
— from One Day's Courtship, and The Heralds of Fame by Robert Barr

Except for the miserly splitting, here and there in the older edifices, of an inadequate ground floor into a mezzanine and a shallow box (a device employed more frankly and usefully with an outer flight of steps on the East Side), there is nothing mean in the whole street from the Plaza to Washington Square.
— from Your United States: Impressions of a first visit by Arnold Bennett

There is no architectural style, no decoration even, except a rudely simple pattern on the outside of the wall which faces the east; so there is nothing by which one can connect this temple, if it is a temple, with the buildings of any known race or country.
— from Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

Now, as during the eclipse the moon moves nearly in the plane of the ecliptic, her shadow which accompanies her must also move nearly in the same plane, and must therefore traverse the earth across its central regions, along the terrestrial ecliptic, since this is nothing more than the intersection of the plane of the celestial ecliptic with the earth's surface.
— from Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers by Denison Olmsted

She cursed the earth, so that it no longer brought forth corn: she broke the ploughs: the seeds perished in the fields, and the cattle in their stalls.
— from Gods and Heroes; or, The Kingdom of Jupiter by R. E. (Robert Edward) Francillon

" "The Equisetum sylvaticum —there is now of a reddish cast.
— from Journal 01, 1837-1846 The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 07 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau