Sometimes the union established is intermittent; sometimes it crowns the end of life and dissolves it altogether; sometimes it remains, while it lasts, monogamous; sometimes the sexual and social alertness is constant in the male, only periodic in the female.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The one, in his separate independent state, is less liable to the temptations of bad company, which, in large manufactories, so frequently ruin the morals of the other.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

We were coated with it like millers; so were the coach, the mules, the mail-bags, the driver—we and the sage-brush and the other scenery were all one monotonous color.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

With tears starting forth, he 448 said, “Go on and be happy; celebrate without me the festive day in the race; at the place to which the accursed hand of the thief has dragged me, will I lament my sad fate.”
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

I'm a frontiersman from the extreme edge of the Knowable, and I feel quite out of place when I leave my study and come into touch with all you great, rough, hulking creatures.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

But after spending some weeks in London Mrs. Schopenhauer was seized with home-sickness, and her husband acceded to her entreaties to return to Dantzic, where a child, the future philosopher, was shortly afterwards born.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

Nor was this appellation confined to one particular sort of fountain, or water: but all waters, that had any uncommon property, were in like manner sacred to Elees, or Eesel.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

'I shook hands with it.' "'Let me shaak dthot hand,' he said, his voice trembling with emotion, and then he whispered in my ear: 'Oi belave yez to be innoshunt; but av yez ain't, for the love of Dan, oi'll let yez
— from The Water Ghost and Others by John Kendrick Bangs

And oh! to love through all things—therefore pray "And take the thought of this calm vesper time, With its low murmuring sounds and silvery light, On through the dark days, fading from their prime, As a sweet dew to keep your souls from blight.
— from Grace Darling, Heroine of the Farne Islands by Marianne Farningham

But if I depart from it in the least, or am caught once playing fast and loose with the facts, I will irretrievably lose my standing.
— from The Truth About Jesus : Is He a Myth? Illustrated by M. M. (Mangasar Mugurditch) Mangasarian

"I shall be very careful where I lead my shadow; 'cause he's a good little one, and set me a righter zarmple than ever I did him," said Will, and then dropped asleep.
— from Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 6 An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. by Louisa May Alcott

"I'll think so when I lose my senses."
— from Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The voice that breathed o’er Eden 283 Thee will I love, my Strength, my Tower 98 , 101 ,
— from The Story of Our Hymns by Ernest Edwin Ryden

The regiments promptly resumed the retreat, and four hundred yards farther back filed past two more of General Stevens’s regiments, which in like manner stood in line ready to repel too hot a pursuit.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

I find it best to tie the tinsel in first, not straight out from the hook, but diagonally, as, if put [Pg 31] on in this way it lies much smoother in the first turn than if tied in quite straight.
— from Old Flies in New Dresses How to Dress Dry Flies with the Wings in the Natural Position and Some New Wet Flies by Charles Edward Walker

2013 M. Guizot was, in like manner, sustained and encouraged, amidst his many vicissitudes and disappointments, by his noble wife.
— from Character by Samuel Smiles