Fourthly, to please and delight our selves, and others, by playing with our words, for pleasure or ornament, innocently.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

“I was worn out with fatigue.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

In all our afflictions the truth of the gospel shone among us, and gave us comfort; and we only wished for the grace of Jesus Christ, (not only to ourselves, but to soften the hearts of our enemies) and the sympathy of our fellow christians."
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

And when Moses had recapitulated whatsoever he had done for the preservation of the people, both in their wars and in peace, and had composed them a body of laws, and procured them an excellent form of government, he foretold, as God had declared to him that if they transgressed that institution for the worship of God, they should experience the following miseries:—Their land should be full of weapons of war from their enemies, and their cities should be overthrown, and their temple should be burnt that they should be sold for slaves, to such men as would have no pity on them in their afflictions; that they would then repent,
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The phylacteries of the Jews were originally worn for the same purpose.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

I was worn out with fatigue and sorrow, and I slept soundly.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Leslie and I couldn't get on with our work for the tricks he'd play.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

There is no pool, however, which has not some dead leaves floating on its surface, no human soul upon which there do not settle habits that make it rigid against itself by making it rigid against others, no language, in short, so subtle and instinct with life, so fully alert in each of its parts as to eliminate the ready-made and oppose the mechanical operations of inversion, transposition, etc., which one would fain perform upon it as on some lifeless thing.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

Bad luck to you!” “It’s all right, it’s all right,” whispered Olga, wrapping Fyokla up; “it’s all right, dearie.” All was stillness again.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Great symptom of fatigue or of the weakness of will : for this, in reality, is what treats the passions as master, and directs them as to the way and to the measure.... 85.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Chaptal the eminent chemist, after numerous experiments regarding writing ink, concludes, that the best ingredients and proportions are the following, viz: two parts of galls, in sorts, bruised, and one part of logwood chipped; these are to be boiled in twenty-five times their weight of water for the space of two hours, adding a little water from time to time, according to the evaporation.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

By way of illustration, he would pass sentence upon himself should he be thus blameworthy; this more forcibly to warn others who fall far short of his standing.
— from Epistle Sermons, Vol. 2: Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost by Martin Luther

In proportion as England opened her colonial ports to American vessels, Congress relaxed the severity of its navigation law, and, in spite of incessant dispute about details, this process went on with favorable results as fast as public opinion in England would allow.
— from The Life of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams

These attacks not unfrequently lasted several days, in which a brisk fire was maintained on both sides, whenever a foe could be seen; until wearied out with fruitless endeavors, or surprised by a reinforcement of the whites, the Indians would raise the siege, with a howl of rage, and depart.
— from Ella Barnwell A Historical Romance of Border Life by Emerson Bennett

That this one-sided tendency was fatal to the political life of Athens, and therefore, in some degree, to its moral life, is clear enough; and, though we cannot hold Socrates personally responsible for this result, we must still admit that it was one which flowed from his system of thought.
— from Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson

Not only are the stringed instruments here employed so differently to the preceding movement that they scarcely seem the same instruments; but, whereas oboes with flutes and bassoons THE SECOND FINALE.
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

But there were others who fought valiantly enough, taking punishment laughingly when it came and pressing [163] the older fellows closely.
— from Left End Edwards by Ralph Henry Barbour

"We do not insult you, madam; we only wish, for a time, to put it out of your power to do mischief.
— from The Adventurers by Gustave Aimard

The first pot was opened when Frank and Mary were here, and proved not at all what it ought to be; it was neither solid nor entirely sweet, and on seeing it, Eliza remembered that Miss Austen had said she did not think it had been boiled enough.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

And her glance, charged with grief and with satisfaction, said: "How are the mighty fallen, with their jaunty parade of irreligion, and their musical evenings on Sundays, with the windows open while folks are coming home from chapel!"
— from These Twain by Arnold Bennett