Quo minus autem fructus in commune conferrentur, primum obstitit locorum, in quae homines discesserunt, distantia, deinde justitiae et amoris defectus, per quem fiebat, ut nee in labore, nee in consumtione fructuum, quae debebat, aequalitas servaretur.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

[828] Man in honour that understandeth not, is like unto beasts that perish, so David esteems him: a monster by stupend metamorphoses, [829] a fox, a dog, a hog, what not?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“You seem to be unwell, now I look at you.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Euphemism may tell pleasant fables about him, priestcraft may find it useful to perpetuate belief in his existence, but all the evils of the universe, which it is inconvenient to explain, are gradually laid upon him, and sink him down, until nothing is left of his former glory but a shining name.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Besides, to the like of us news is late in coming.”
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

The force instantly begins to flow off, and continues in a steady stream until none is left, and the body is again at rest.
— 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

There is none of that cunning in his eye that all of us noticed in Louis Napoleon’s.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

SEE Sublett, Charles W. The uniform negotiable instruments law, complete annotations with editorial notes.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1965 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

They cut it up, named it Lee.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

The policemen had been searching the room thoroughly, had partly searched the house; but had come upon no instrument likely to have inflicted the wound.
— from Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

The raw products which were required by the manufacturing lands, could be bartered in safety, on the upper Nile, in Libya and Arabia, and on the Indus; the wide market which the extent of the Persian kingdom opened to the harbour cities of Asia Minor and Syria, to the industry of the Lydians and Phenicians, the Egyptians and Babylonians, could be used in the readiest and most profitable manner.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 6 (of 6) by Max Duncker

Pray what right may you have to stew me in a saucepan up on your roof, and to send me flavors of myself done up nicely into little packages labelled deceitfully "love"?
— from Literary Love-Letters and Other Stories by Robert Herrick

"If I had the money I would pay it and submit to be trodden upon — I would rather take it some ways than some others — but unhappily necessity is laid upon me.
— from Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner

All Johannesburg was laid up, nursing its lungs, its hump, or its pet stocks, and Rosser was amongst the invalids.
— from Poppy: The Story of a South African Girl by Cynthia Stockley