Ignorant it may be, and poverty stricken, black and curious in limb and ways and thought; and yet it loves and hates, it toils and tires, it laughs and weeps its bitter tears, and looks in vague and awful longing at the grim horizon of its life,—all this, even as you and I. These black thousands are not in reality lazy; they are improvident and careless; they insist on breaking the monotony of toil with a glimpse at the great town-world on Saturday; they have their loafers and their rascals; but the great mass of them work continuously and faithfully for a return, and under circumstances that would call forth equal voluntary effort from few if any other modern laboring class.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

M. Fervet olla, vivit amicitia —As long as the pot 45 boils, friendship lasts.
— 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.

I Meet the Venetian Ambassadors at Lyons, and also Marcoline’s Uncle—I Part from Marcoline and Set Out for Paris—An Amorous Journey Thus freed from the cares which the dreadful slanders of Possano had caused me, I gave myself up to the enjoyment of my fair Venetian, doing all in my power to increase her happiness, as if I had had a premonition that we should soon be separated from one another.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In anger it becomes high, harsh, and unpleasant; in love low, soft, and melodious—the variations are as limitless as they are fascinating to observe.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

I said; they all heard me; and the country may rot for all me—I’ll never vote agin as long as I live.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Phaeax meanwhile proceeded on his voyage, and at length arrived at Athens.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

síril v [A3; a12] look all around s.w. to find s.t.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In faith, he is a worthy gentleman; Exceedingly well-read, and profited In strange concealments; valiant as a lion, And wondrous affable, and as bountiful As mines of India.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He was not at all handsome, but he was far from insignificant, and he had one of those beautifully modulated English voices and a look and a smile which were extremely winning to women, children, and lost dogs.
— from Mrs. Darrell by Foxcroft Davis

When he saw Mary he held up his hand and spoke to her in a voice almost as low as and rather like his piping.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

You know he is very agreeable, Aunt Loring, and has been very kind to us.
— from The Mimic Stage A Series of Dramas, Comedies, Burlesques, and Farces for Public Exhibitions and Private Theatricals by George M. (George Melville) Baker

It gave also a sad plaintiveness to her voice, and a languor and debility to her movements, which awoke the anxiety of her parents to a painful degree.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 6, December 1852 by Various

Very soon he left the frozen sea behind him and came to a sunny land, where there were green forests and flowery meadows and hills and valleys, and at last a pleasant garden where were all kinds of blossoms and fruits.
— from Old Greek Stories by James Baldwin

The late C. R. Smith, whose opinion on the subject is of especial value, and also later authorities, have thought that this remarkable structure enclosed receptacles either for the storage of water, or for the deposit of treasure awaiting shipment.”— A Short Account of the Records of Richborough (W. D.).
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley

There is the chicaclina , a striped viper, of beautiful colours—the coralillo , a viper of a coral colour, with a black head—the vinagrillo , an animal like a large cricket.
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

But throughout the greater part of the work the Author confines himself to the domains of vegetable and animal life; and here he accumulates a surprising number of evidences of design, adaptation of power, and inexhaustible resource.
— from The Wild Elephant and the Method of Capturing and Taming it in Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

Among these was to be seen every variety of age, sentiment, and condition,—striplings and blanched heads; wild, visionary enthusiasts; grave, heroic men, who, in the struggle for freedom, had ventured all, and lost all; nobles and beggars; bandits, felons and brigands.
— from Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller

If the two vessels are as large as we recommend, and the jet a very fine one, the fountain may continue to play for hours before c is empty, the animals of the tank being favoured all this time with a continuous supply of air.
— from The Sea Shore by William S. Furneaux