Let us th' important "now" employ, / And live as those who never die.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The perch tore itself from the hook—danced in the grass towards its native element and ... leaped into the water.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"Sit down on the floor if there is nothing else, and listen attentively."
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Since then, my honour'd first of friends, On this poor being all depends, Let us th' important now employ, And live as those who never die.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

There are interspersed through the proceedings suggestions of mercy on condition of confession, which, joined to these theoretical questions, render it plain that the retractations which the so-called witches made were true, and that in New England, at least, there was little if any basis for the delusion beyond the experiment of the two Spanish Indians.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

"Of course the thing is not exactly a lie," he said.
— from Afterwards by Kathlyn Rhodes

But of a mixture extensive enough to have materially modified the type of the Eskimo in whole large regions, such as the entire Bering Sea and most of the far northeast, there is no evidence and little not only probability but even possibility.
— from Anthropological Survey in Alaska by Aleš Hrdlička

"This is not exactly a lodge that I belong to," said Jack.
— from The Substitute Millionaire by Hulbert Footner

In a well planned ship-yard the machines are so placed that the steel plates, bars and girders, the planks and boards, move continuously from one machine to its neighbor, ending at last by reaching the building berth.
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles

A long line of territorial nobles like the Bensos transmits, if nothing else, at least a strong sentiment for the birthland.
— from Cavour by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa

It is pleasant to feel that at last I am away from America,—a satisfaction that I never enjoyed as long as I stayed in Liverpool, where it seemed to me that the quintessence of nasal and hand-shaking Yankeedom was continually filtered and sublimated through my consulate, on the way outward and homeward.
— from The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Appendix to Volume XII: Tales, Sketches, and other Papers by Nathaniel Hawthorne with a Biographical Sketch by George Parsons Lathrop Biographical Sketch of Nathaniel Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop

There is not even a looking-glass for the voice.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

To find out if there is enough gum in it, take a small piece of rough paper and rub the patch of colour vigorously with it; if there is insufficient gum to bind the colour it will rub off on to the paper; if there is too much gum, more colour should be added; 135 while, on the other hand, if there is not enough a little more should be mixed with it.
— from Illumination and Its Development in the Present Day by Sidney Farnsworth

Besides, we could not keep you out if we would, as there is not even a latch on the canvas door, though we really intend, in a day or two, to have a hook put onto it.
— from The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Dame Shirley