But, what to-day was thus begun, I vow’d, up starting from my chair, To-morrow should indeed be done; So loosed my chafing thoughts from school, To play with fancy as they chose, And then, according to my rule, I dress’d, and came to Sarum Close.
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

Pinira ang paglimpiyu sa salug arun dì ka magbalikbálik, Clean the floor square at a time so you don’t keep having to go over the same things again and again.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

That he would not afford him material on that day; but in order that he may now know that the concession has been made not to his petulance, but to the absent Virginius, to the name of father and to liberty, that he would not decide the cause on that day, nor interpose a decree: that he would request of Marcus Claudius to forego somewhat of his right, and suffer the girl to be bailed till the next day.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

“ Stab-rag ” changed to “ Stab-rag ,” p. 316 “first six months” changed to “first six months;” p. 321 “that term” changed to “that term.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

At first I could not make much sense of what I heard; for the discourse of Louisa Eshton and Mary Ingram, who sat nearer to me, confused the fragmentary sentences that reached me at intervals.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

The distinguished appearance, the noble sentiments, the great knowledge, and the talents of Fabris would have been turned into ridicule in a man called Tognolo, for such is the force of prejudices, particularly of those which have no ground to rest upon, that an ill-sounding name is degrading in this our stupid society.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

" One step more (constituting the fourth stage of development) brings us to the sacrifice of Gods.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

It was here, if anywhere, that he might chance to find some clue which would throw light on the cause.
— from The Moon Rock by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

But it has its limitations, and it goes without saying that the more complete the fossil skeleton of a vertebrate, or the remains of an arthropod, the more complete will be our conception of the form of the extinct organism.
— from Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

[Footnote 112: Says Sir William Muir: "Three radical evils flow from the faith, in all ages and in every country, and must continue to flow so long as the Koran is the standard of belief .
— from Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. (Frank Field) Ellinwood

I can't say much as to the similarity of tastes and sympathy of souls between the Duke and you, but surely you might contrive to feel some love and esteem for a coronet and ninety thousand a year." "Suppose I did," said Mary, with a smile, "the next point is to honour; and surely he is as unlikely to excite that sentiment as the other.
— from Marriage by Susan Ferrier

Kali, the son of Kol, who had settled in the Orkneys, well known as a kindly and accomplished man, composed the following stanza:— I am ready to play chess, I know nine idrottir, I shall scarcely forget the runes, I am a book-reader and smi
— from The Viking Age. Volume 2 (of 2) The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

The Bluebird's Wing The Answer WILD GRAPE Wild Grape To a Greek Statue Omnipresence My Cathedral The Foundry Swiss Sketches— (I)
— from Acanthus and Wild Grape by Frank Oliver Call

Nothing is more common than for scholars to make a ridiculous figure, in regard to a question of beauty, besides cultured men of the world; and technical critics are especially the laughing-stock of connoisseurs.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

With my eyes closed I paint this on my brain, and if I am great enough and wide enough and deep enough I can subdue my personality and forget my surroundings, and when opportunity offers I can express upon my canvas the few salient facts which impressed me and should impress my fellow men.
— from Outdoor Sketching Four Talks Given before the Art Institute of Chicago; The Scammon Lectures, 1914 by Francis Hopkinson Smith

The details that should be studied are the pillared windows, the marble columns, the fine stalactite frieze, the arches, the azulejos of dazzling colour, the choice decoration of the doors, the marble pavements, and the half-orange domes—all representative of the art of the Mudéjares.
— from Old Continental Towns by Walter M. (Walter Matthew) Gallichan