And you know I do dread dyspepsia.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

The King in discourse did ask me two or three questions about my newes of Allen’s loss in the Streights, but I said nothing as to the business, nor am not much sorry for it, unless the King had spoke to me as he did to them, and then I could have said something to the purpose I think.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

thy kick is double death!'
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

Das Schwerste in allen Werken der Kunst ist dass dasjenige, was sehr ausgearbeitet worden, nicht ausgearbeitet scheine —The most difficult thing in all works of art is to make that which has been most highly elaborated appear as if it had not been elaborated at all.
— 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.

Da ich mich zu jener Zeit für eine Karriere in der Daten-verarbeitung oder als Hochschullehrer für Wirtschaftsenglisch entscheiden musste, wählte ich eine Kombination von beidem.
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

XXIII And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dred, His burning Idol all of blackest hue, In vain with Cymbals ring, They call the grisly king, In dismall dance about the furnace Blue; 210 And Brutish gods of Nile as fast, lsis and Orus, and the Dog Anubis hast.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

I say not this by way of defiance,-I should blush to be suspected of so doing through an indirect channel; but simply that, if you show him this letter, he may know I dare defend, as well as excuse, my conduct.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

"Observe in the first place, that every one of the arguments by which the relativity of our knowledge is demonstrated, distinctly postulates the positive existence of something beyond the relative.
— 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

“Highland Lady, Memoirs of a,” 66 Hill, Arthur, 32 Edward B.L., 33 Edwin, 33 G. Birkbeck, 32 Sir John E.G., 33 Professor Leonard, 32 Matthew Davenport, 33 Norman, 33 Sir Rowland, 33 Thomas W., 33 “Hindoostan, Materia Medica of,” 28 Hodgkin, maiden name of Lady Fry, 22 Hogarth, 37 Homan, Mrs. Ruth, 32 Home Office, 59 Hooker, Sir Joseph D., 34 , 82 Sir William J., 34 , 82 Horsley, Charles E., 35 John Callcott, 35 , 84 Sir V., 27 , 34 , 84 William, 34 Houghton, Lord, 50 “Huia, The,” 38 Ignorance concerning noteworthiness of kinsmen in distant degree, xxxviii Imaginative power near to lunacy, xv “Immortality, Ode to,” xvi Incongruous constituents in highest order of mind, xv “India,” 65 “India, Finances and Public Works of,” 64 India Office, 59 Indian Meteorological Department, 6 “Industrial Conciliation,” 7 Intensity of any specified quality in each or any degree of kinship, how measured, xxix “Internal Motion of Gases,” 62 Ireland, number of counties of, xii
— from Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) An Index to Kinships in Near Degrees between Persons Whose Achievements Are Honourable, and Have Been Publicly Recorded by Francis Galton

After several visits to the Arcade Court and trying the key in different doors, it was finally found to open a rear door to the Subtreasury office.
— from Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge

I know it down deep inside of me.
— from The Cottage of Delight: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

“I know I did,” Dixie smiled over the big yellow bowl which held the foamy cheese, and into which she was pouring rich cream.
— from Dixie Martin, the Girl of Woodford's Cañon by Grace May North

The bacillus comparatively seldom even gets on the floor or walls of a room where reasonable precautions against coughing and spitting have been taken; but it is, of course, advisable thoroughly to disinfect and sterilize the room of a patient and all its contents with corrosive sublimate and formalin, as a number of cases are on record in which the disease has been carried through books and articles of clothing which had been kept in damp, dark places for several months.
— from Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson