[pg 201] We find, however, that the inner necessity of the gradation of its manifestations, which is inseparable from the adequate objectification of the will, is expressed by an outer necessity in the whole of these manifestations themselves, by reason of which man has need of the beasts for his support, the beasts in their grades have need of each other as well as of plants, which in their turn require the ground, water, chemical elements and their combinations, the planet, the sun, rotation and motion round the sun, the curve of the ellipse, &c., &c.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Throw him into the store room and make the door fast behind you; then fasten a noose about his body, and string him close up to the rafters from a high bearing-post, 172 that he may linger on in an agony.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

“Who will pay for the sign, Ruth?” asked Mr. Bolton.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

We started to the supper room, and met two other men whom I had known elsewhere.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

said the corporal, won by the manner of my uncle Toby ’s reasoning, as much as by the reasoning itself, he has something else to do; if not on action, or a march, or upon duty in his garrison—he has his firelock, an’ please your honour, to furbish—his accoutrements to take care of—his regimentals to mend—himself to shave and keep clean, so as to appear always like what he is upon the parade; what business, added the corporal triumphantly, has a soldier, an’ please your honour, to know any thing at all of geography ?
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

They sometimes took a pleasure trip to see the sun rise, a mild species of enjoyment which befits those who are entering life and those who are quitting it.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

1 I omitted, however, to mention that this very characteristic Malay myth occurs in the “Sri Rama,” a Malay prose hikayat , 2 which, as its [ 17 ] name betokens, professes to describe the adventures of the hero of the Râmâyana.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

When a navigable cut or canal has been once made, the management of it becomes quite simple and easy, and it is reducible to strict rule and method.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

At Bologna I saw Madame Marucci, who had been expelled from Spain for the same reason as Madame Pelliccia.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Mellichius, Cordus, Wecker, Quercetan, Renodeus, the Venetian, Florentine states have their several receipts, and magistrals: they of Nuremberg have theirs, and Augustana Pharmacopoeia, peculiar medicines to the meridian of the city: London hers, every city, town, almost every private man hath his own mixtures, compositions, receipts, magistrals, precepts, as if he scorned antiquity, and all others in respect of himself.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Divorce a vinculo is permitted (1) for impotence of either person at the time of the marriage; (2) "for any cause which by the laws of the state renders a marriage null and void ab initio ;" (3) for adultery; (4) for abandonment with absence from the state for five years.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 3 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

He marks what laws the widest wanderers bind, Copies creation in his forming mind, Sees in his hall the total semblance rise, And mimics there the labors of the skies.
— from The Columbiad: A Poem by Joel Barlow

I was much struck by the similarity of conformation and nature of the rocks on both sides of the continent; but there is a difference in the structure of the subtending ridges, as may be understood by the annexed ideal geological section.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

Two still remain, and must stand all the more firmly together where this culture is menaced.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915, With Index by Various

When we had eaten, the Sagamore rose and moved noiselessly down the height of land to the trail level, where our path entered the ghostly gloom of the evergreens.
— from The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

[47] Not that so restricted a meaning can, with any propriety, be placed on positivist definitions of law.
— from Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton

Far from the main body of the sands run all manner of spits and promontories and jaws of sand, and through and across the Goodwins in several directions are numbers of 'swatches,' or passages of water varying in depth from feet to fathoms.
— from Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor

She found old books among Miss Henderson's stores, that she read and mused on.
— from Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

In the most dignified of the two Swedish nobles Eric joyfully recognised King Birger's faithful counsellor, the Swedish regent and Marsk, Sir Thorkild Knudson, a tall middle-aged man, of a grave and noble countenance; but it was not without a feeling of uneasiness that the king beheld his companion, a withered shrunken figure, whose cold and wily countenance wore a perpetual smile, and whose grey, staring ostrich-like eye had an expression of sinister scrutiny.
— from King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann