The deadly antagonism of the traditional religious and social feeling of the race towards the whole modern manner of thinking, the ruinous effects of a first taste of modern luxury upon those who come ignorantly and blindly under its spell, the agitations of minds whose moral continuity has been broken by ill-understood freedom of speculation, the disasters produced by political or social ambitions aroused in those grotesquely unfit for their attainment,—in short, the illusions, the vain hopes, the failures, the despairs, the hates, the woe which every great movement of the Zeitgeist inevitably causes in every nation, these are the themes which Galdós has of late found irresistibly attractive, and to which he has devoted much the richest and strongest part of his work.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

So to the ‘Change a little, and then home to dinner, and then by water to White Hall, to attend the Commissioners of the Treasury with Alderman Backewell, about L10,000 he is to lend us for Tangier, and then up to a Committee of the Council, where was the Duke of York, and they did give us, the Officers of the Navy, the proposals of the several bidders for the victualling of the Navy, for us to give our answer to, which is the best, and whether it be better to victual by commission or contract, and to bring them our answer by Friday afternoon, which is a great deal of work.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

We often attribute to the wisdom of our ancestors great political effects which have sprung unforeseen from the accident of the situation.
— from Laws by Plato

Come, friend, let us fall to and eat, for something within me cackles aloud for that good fat capon."
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

"The real poetical imagination of it is unchangeable; the allegory, subtle and profound and yet simple, is cast into the form of a dramatic narrative, which moves with unconventional freedom to a finely impressive climax; and the reader, who began in idle curiosity, finds his intelligence more and more engaged until, when he turns the last page, he has the feeling of one who has been moving in worlds not realized, and communing with great if mysterious presences."
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

In fact, they believe themselves to be such, these "unbelievers" (for they are all of them that): it seems that this idea is their last remnant of faith, the idea of being opponents of this ideal, so earnest are they on this subject, so passionate in word and gesture;—but does it follow that what they believe must necessarily be true ?
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

these are the fist horses we have met with since we left this neighbourhood last fall, in short the country below this place will not permit the uce of this valuable animal except in the Columbian vally and there the present inhabitants have no uce for them as they reside immediately on the river and the country is too thickly timbered to admit them to run the game with horses if they had them.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The symptoms,—of course, we are dealing here with psychic (or psychogenic) symptoms, and psychic illness—are acts which are detrimental to life as a whole, or which are at least useless; frequently they are obnoxious to the individual who performs them and are accompanied by distaste and suffering.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

karína n k.o. skirt with no tail which gathers around the hips and with projecting ends used for tying around the shoulders, usually of home-woven cloth.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And suddenly such a scream of terror went up from the Army that it might easily have filled the stoutest heart with consternation.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

When cured L. and maiden ride on, come to castle of the six brothers, who make up false tale as to their cause.
— from The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac Studies upon its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Romantic Cycle by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston

Portraits of Maori chiefs are hung round the room; there were feather mantles and native mats, the orange-painted staff of a chieftain, fringed with the white hair of the native dog, the sharp instrument used for tatooing, and some very beautiful greenstone meri meris.
— from Forty Thousand Miles Over Land and Water The Journal of a Tour Through the British Empire and America by Ethel Gwendoline Vincent

Let us forget that, and be friends again.”
— from Justin Wingate, Ranchman by John Harvey Whitson

Then will all the dead among Israel arise and rejoice in the good that at the beginning of the world was laid up for them, and will receive the reward for their good deeds."
— from The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 by Louis Ginzberg

'Tis therefore, above all things, very needfull for the increasing of love, that a woman wink at many of her husbands actions; especially if he keep no correspondence with Tiplers, that will be alwaies in the Alehouses; and there too will be serv'd and waited upon, forsooth, to a hairs breadth; nay, and as we perceive, if the Wife brings in the Anchovis upon the Table, without watring them a little, as oftimes happens there, then the house is full of Hell and damnation.
— from The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh

I hold that (special scientific connotation apart) a name means, or connotes, only the properties which it is a mark of in the general mind; and that in the case of any additional properties, however uniformly found to accompany these, it remains possible that a thing which did not possess the properties might still be thought entitled to the name.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

But the office was nevertheless a valuable source of emolument, derived in great part from the number of State portraits of the sovereign, required, by usage, for the adornment of certain official residences, and the duty and profit of executing which devolved, as of right, on the painter in ordinary.
— from Art in England: Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

(A similar command structure, but with different combat units, was set up for the attack on Guam to the south.)
— from Breaching the Marianas: The Battle for Saipan by John C. Chapin

The rest of the day was spent in feasting; and if these enormous eaters got up from table at sunset, it was only because they could not scrape another morsel off the poor animal's bones.
— from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne