A man’s conscious desire is, I think, more often than not chiefly extra-regarding; but where there is strong desire in any direction, there is commonly keen susceptibility to the corresponding pleasures; and the most devoted enthusiast is sustained in his work by the recurrent consciousness of such pleasures.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

This is called katuyausi (see Plate XII ).
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Would that I could keep squeezing that sperm for ever!
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The whole space enclosed by these is called King Solomon’s palace-yard ( halaman ).
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Out of the which lane mentioned Long lane breaketh one other street towards the south and by east, and this is called Kentish street, for that is the way leading into tha
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

The flies that infest cattle know so well how to select the most vigorous and healthiest beasts, that cattle-dealers and tanners place entire dependence upon them, and prefer those beasts and hides that are most scarred by maggots.
— from Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler

Speak; go on; I will give you a hearing at least; you shall not complain that I cannot keep silent; I will not so much as open my mouth.
— from The Love-Tiff by Molière

"If we keep on at this speed, we shall be in the town of Liskeard in a little more than an hour," I said presently, feeling that I could keep silence no longer.
— from Mistress Nancy Molesworth: A Tale of Adventure by Joseph Hocking

"You think it cruel," Kyla said with sudden passion, "but in the forest they can live and find their own food; they will not starve or die.
— from The Planet Savers by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Think you, after this, that I could keep silence or obey your request?
— from The Disowned — Volume 02 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

I have received several epistles from him, and by their means I have been brought to hold very different doctrines to those I had before believed were true; yet hitherto I have not dared to express them, but I feel that I can keep silence no longer.
— from The Golden Grasshopper: A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham by William Henry Giles Kingston

In the second theory, which I have just stated, he does not call in question the view that I can know all such matters of fact as I know to be causally connected with facts which I have observed, nor the view that I can know some facts to be thus causally connected.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

" "If you had even been watching you would have seen me shift, and then, coming on at the speed you did, it was your place to warn me by a whistle, so that I could keep straight on until you had passed me.
— from Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune by Victor Appleton

Knaresborough (5), Yorkshire market-town, 14 m. W. of York; manufactures woollen rugs, grinds flour, and trades in corn. Kneller, Sir Godfrey , portrait-painter, born at Lübeck; studied under Rembrandt and at Italy, came to England in 1674, and was appointed court painter to Charles II., James II., William III., and George I.; practised his art till he was seventy, and made a large fortune (1646-1723).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall