“The power of custom is enormous, and so gradual will be the change, that man’s sense of what is due to himself will be at no time rudely shocked; our bondage will steal upon us noiselessly and by imperceptible approaches; nor will there ever be such a clashing of desires between man and the machines as will lead to an encounter between them.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Mag-ugnap ang hubag nga maghakut ug nánà, A boil develops a throbbing pain when it begins to accumulate pus. halag = halaghag .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

* Conferences about how to use North American bulletin boards.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

The vegetable world offers itself everywhere for æsthetic enjoyment without the medium of art; but so far as it is an object of art, it belongs principally to landscape-painting; to the province of which all the rest of unconscious nature also belongs.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Looking round at the furnishing of the rooms and the costumes, Vassilyev realized that this was not lack of taste, but something that might be called the taste, and even the style, of S. Street, which could not be found elsewhere—something intentional in its ugliness, not accidental, but elaborated in the course of years.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Because, therefore, our forefathers erred very far with respect to the [Pg 343] knowledge of the gods, through incredulity and through want of attention to their worship and service, they invented this art of making gods; and this art once invented, they associated with it a suitable virtue borrowed from universal nature, and, being incapable of making souls, they evoked those of demons or of angels, and united them with these holy images and divine mysteries, in order that through these souls the images might have power to do good or harm to men."
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Or torrents owre a lin, man: The Bench sae wise, lift up their eyes, Half-wauken'd wi' the din, man. H2 anchor Inscription For The Headstone Of Fergusson The Poet^1 No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, “No storied urn nor animated bust;” This simple stone directs pale Scotia's way, To pour her sorrows o'er the Poet's dust.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

naut a bon us naut ae bon ī Gen. naut ae bon ī naut ārum bon ōrum Dat.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

“Huh! Hang the luck, if it begins to come down on us now and blots out our trail, we’ll be in the soup!”
— from The Outdoor Chums in the Big Woods; Or, Rival Hunters of Lumber Run by Quincy Allen

Jourdan, Jean Baptiste, Comte von , marshal of France, born at Limoges; gained for the Republic the victory of Fleurus in 1794, but was in 1795 defeated at Höchst, and subsequently by the Archduke Charles of Austria; served under Napoleon, and became Governor of the Hôtel des Invalides under Louis Philippe (1762-1833).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Most of the contemporary chronicles attribute such great disasters to the sins of the inhabitants of Palestine, and in the scenes of destruction only behold the effect of that divine anger which fell upon Nineveh and Babylon.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 3 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

But it is of a new order, an order unknown to us now, and by us impossible to appreciate without at least some clew as to its character.
— from Light on the Path and Through the Gates of Gold by Mabel Collins

My dear Severn—I am very sorry that on Tuesday I have an appointment in the City of an undeferable nature; and Brown on the same day has some business at Guildhall.
— from Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

O host of gallant comrades sweeping by, Up the red track of glory to the sky— Reynolds, McPherson, Dahlgren, Garesché, And all the unknown names as brave as they,— Great hearts and souls as those of song and story, Whose only guerdon was a deathbed gory; As youthful as of yore we see you now, The flush of victory on each radiant brow, And youthful in our withering hearts shall glow Your generous valor in the Long Ago.
— from Winona, a Dakota Legend; and Other Poems by E. L. (Eli Lundy) Huggins

She was better now, but still strangely unwell, and to open both the windows was of no use: not a breath stirred, the trees, dark and sombre, were of iron, the lamps gave no radiance and the sky was black.
— from The Duchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Hugh Walpole

Les élèves comprirent qu’il s’agissait de faire une niche au bancal, et la division se mit à filer d’un train d’enfer.
— from Le Petit Chose (Histoire d'un Enfant) by Alphonse Daudet

Neither can Hindu pantheism be quoted against the position taken: for Brahm is not the Universe; neither are Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones