Hence every thing, that is new, is most affecting, and gives us either more pleasure or pain, than what, strictly speaking, naturally belongs to it.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

All the unaccomplish'd works of Authors' hands, Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mix'd, Damn'd upon earth, fleet thither— Play, Opera, Farce, with all their trumpery— There, by the neighbouring moon (by some not improperly supposed thy Regent Planet upon earth) mayst thou not still be acting thy managerial pranks, great disembodied Lessee?
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

How much we love him—as at that moment I loved Françoise—the good-natured intermediary who by a single word has made supportable, human, almost propitious the inconceivable, infernal scene of gaiety in the thick of which we had been imagining swarms of enemies, perverse and seductive, beguiling away from us, even making laugh at us, the woman whom we love.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

It made no serious impression on any of us except my cousin—whose love of the marvellous induced him to believe it.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

In his misery and depression Jude walked to well-nigh every spot in the city that he had visited with Sue; thence he did not know whither, and then thought of going home to his usual evening meal.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

dilàdílà sa irù name given to two species of hairy herbs with medicinal uses: Elephantopus mollis and E. spicatus .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Let us explain more clearly what is meant by skilful handling.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Ponía la bomba y prendía la mecha; unía el material y le añadía el explosivo; tras de la arenga, la arremetida.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Every transition from one order of harmonic writing to another, from four-part harmony to three, or from five-part harmony to unison etc., must coincide with the introduction of a new idea, a fresh theme or phrase; otherwise the orchestrator will encounter many unforeseen and insurmountable difficul -64- ties.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

Soyuz descended from orbit and landed in the south-central USSR early Monday morning, July 21.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

I was unsuspiciously eating my dinner next to a man with a gray hat who was reading the ‘Debats.’
— from Parisians in the Country by Honoré de Balzac

At last he fell asleep, and did not rouse up until early morning.
— from Nelson the Newsboy; Or, Afloat in New York by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

It’s a kind of pleasure to me to clean up the old traps, and repair ‘em, and look ‘em over, brings back old times, though I never expect to use ‘em much more ‘cept perhaps to take a fox or an otter.”
— from The Unseen Hand; or, James Renfew and His Boy Helpers by Elijah Kellogg

Qui pecuniam suam non dedit ad = usuram, et munera super innoc.
— from The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 1 of 2 by William Langland

And so quatrain preceded glass and chorus followed quatrain until every member of the eulogistic company had sung his or her song.
— from Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

Such attempts at organization show a surprising resemblance to certain Utopian experiments made recently; but with the important difference that Christian communism rested on a religious basis, which is not the case with modern socialism.
— from The Apostles by Ernest Renan

No, you shall not go amongst them; and if you leave us in the manner you have now mentioned, rely upon it that you will make the Queen your mother and me your bitterest enemies, and that we shall use every means to make you feel the effects of our resentment; and, moreover, you will make your husband’s situation worse instead of better.”
— from Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre — Complete by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France

So I sent my native officers to Cooch Behar and other towns fifty miles away to purchase supplies, and ordered flour in bulk from a mill under English management in Calcutta.
— from Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly

"Packs of retainers are not ushered en masse into the presence of Lord Ommodurad, Owner of Owners."
— from A Trace of Memory by Keith Laumer