Consider the fact that it is precisely the aid of German swords and German blood and valour that has enabled the church to carry through its war to the death upon everything noble on earth!
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If the reader wants a hard puzzle, let him try to arrange eight married couples (in four courts on seven days) under exactly similar conditions.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

" He was still mentally asking himself this question as he ascended the stairs in Figtree Court, with one of his dogs under each arm, and his railway rugs over his shoulder.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

SYN: Pallid, wan, faint, dim, undefined, etiolated, sallow, cadaverous.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

La revista Cultures en mouvement (Culturas en Movimiento), en la cual participo periódicamente, me solicitó en abril de 1999 de dirigir un expediente especial sobre la cibercultura.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

It was a very tidy, two-wheeled conveyance, with a cover supported by four iron rods, with curtains that had been drawn up, except the one at the back, which floated out like a sail.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

'If man were a savage, living in the woods by himself, this might be true; but in civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

—¿A que no le dicen ustedes el remoquete?
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

All that depends upon external causes; the one form is as natural to it as the other, but it will always show the same form in the same circumstances; it is equally ready for any, but in every case true to its character, and at all times revealing this alone.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The illustrations of this volume ... are of quite sterling and admirable art, of a class precisely parallel in elevation to the character of the tales which they illustrate; and the original etchings, as I have before said in the Appendix to my 'Elements of Drawing,' were unrivalled in masterfulness of touch since Rembrandt (in some qualities of delineation, unrivalled even by him)....
— from The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook by Theodore Edward Hook

we doubtless understood Each other; as for trusting to reward From any friend beside myself ...
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

The moment was a critical one; but Boone was accustomed to look at and brave death under every shape,—and, with a steady hand, he buried the tomahawk in the snout of his enemy, and, turning round, he rushed to his cabin, believing he would have time to secure the door.
— from The World of Waters Or, A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea by Osborne, David, Mrs. (Fanny)

Great is the blessedness of him who hath attained, through the sweet savor of these days, unto everlasting life, and who, with the most great steadfastness, hath arisen to aid the Cause of Him Who is the King of Names.
— from The Advent of Divine Justice by Effendi Shoghi

If the success of a descent upon England appear doubtful, as I suspect it will, the Army of England shall become the Army of the East, and I go to Egypt."
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

And that chase depends upon environment.
— from Tales of lonely trails by Zane Grey

There was a touch, too, of inexpressible sadness in his half-ignorant mention of the exiles at Cayenne, who were forbidden the wide ocean of escape about them by those swift gunboats keeping their coasts and swooping down upon every craft that left the shore.
— from Suburban Sketches by William Dean Howells

To add one word more to my former discourse, I would advise the ladies no longer to call that honour which is but their duty: “Ut enim consuetudo loquitur, id solum dicitur honestum, quod est populari fama gloriosum;” [“As custom puts it, that only is called honest which is glorious by the public voice.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The command devolved upon Edward Davis, the quartermaster of the ship.
— from William Dampier by William Clark Russell