Desponding fear, of feeble fancies full, / Weak 30 and unmanly, loosens every power.
— 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.

L. Legum ministri magistratus, legum interpretes 20 judices; legum denique idcirco omnes servi sumus, ut liberi esse possimus —The magistrates are the ministers of the laws, the judges their interpreters; we are all, in short, servants of the laws, that we may be free men.
— 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.

It follows then, I think, that from their infancy women should either be shut up like eastern princes, or educated in such a manner as to be able to think and act for themselves.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

ut brāchia atque umerī līberī esse possent , 7, 56, 4, so that their arms and shoulders might be unhampered . 1092.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

“Lessee you drink now,” he said; and Jurgis took the bottle and turned it up to his mouth, and a wonderfully unearthly liquid ecstasy poured down his throat, tickling every nerve of him, thrilling him with joy.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

2 Of seeds dropping into the ground, of births, Of the steady concentration of America, inland, upward, to impregnable and swarming places, Of what Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and the rest, are to be, Of what a few years will show there in Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, and the rest, (Or afar, mounting the Northern Pacific to Sitka or Aliaska,) Of what the feuillage of America is the preparation for—and of what all sights, North, South, East and West, are, Of this Union welded in blood, of the solemn price paid, of the unnamed lost ever present in my mind; Of the temporary use of materials for identity's sake, Of the present, passing, departing—of the growth of completer men than any yet, Of all sloping down there where the fresh free giver the mother, the Mississippi flows, Of mighty inland cities yet unsurvey'd and unsuspected, Of the new and good names, of the modern developments, of inalienable homesteads, Of a free and original life there, of simple diet and clean and sweet blood, Of litheness, majestic faces, clear eyes, and perfect physique there, Of immense spiritual results future years far West, each side of the Anahuacs, Of these songs, well understood there, (being made for that area,) Of the native scorn of grossness and gain there, (O it lurks in me night and day—what is gain after all to savageness and freedom?)
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

[46] de José Mármol, [47] es un libro esencialmente porteño, y americano por extensión; para juzgarlo es preciso un criterio nuestro, argentino, pues siempre valdrá mucho más para los conocedores del teatro de los hechos, que para los que, ignorando los caracteres, las costumbres y la topografía del cuadro, aplican en su examen elementos generales de crítica, y subordinan el conjunto, como obra de arte, a los preceptos de escuela.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Its planes cannot bear through the air more than a certain number of pounds per square foot; and so if it is to be a practical craft, and raise a useful load, every pound that can be saved in its construction has a definite value.
— from The Aeroplane by Claude Grahame-White

Those police regulations can only be established by the local legislatures; and if the people are opposed to slavery, they will elect representatives to that body who will by unfriendly legislation effectually prevent the introduction of it into their midst.
— from Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled North by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

During all this time she had drifted from one place to another, wearing out her welcome at every place she went, and usually leaving each place after having caused family discord in the household.
— from What's What in America by Eugene V. (Eugene Valentine) Brewster

As we gain in the sensitive recognition of universal laws, every petty bit of self-contraction disappears as darkness before the rising of the sun.
— from As a Matter of Course by Annie Payson Call

—Size small both externally and cranially (forearm in adults 40.4-44.1 mm., greatest length of skull 21.7-22.9); rostrum short and abruptly elevated; skull relatively broad; dorsal pelage drab brownish over-all, usually lacking epaulets (pale yellowish brown when present); ventral pelage brownish gray.
— from A New Subspecies of the Fruit-eating Bat, Sturnira ludovici, From Western Mexico by J. Knox Jones

You could never imagine it to have been haunted, because it is unusually luminous, extremely pretty, and comparatively new.
— from "Out of the East": Reveries and Studies in New Japan by Lafcadio Hearn

Peter Rabbit abruptly sat up, and his ears stood up like exclamation points.
— from The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess