An exalted view and understanding of nature consists, then, in its being contemplated not merely as a dynamical play of reciprocal forces, but historically in its course of development, as a commencing life, perpetually relapsing into death, ever disposed to sleep, and only painfully raising itself, or, rather, raised and lovingly guided through all the intermediate grades into the light.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel

Aux plus rupins il disait —— , even to the strongest he said , “you be hanged!
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

“Well—no,” answered the Admiral, “hardly that, I think; at least, that is not my present intention, although circumstances may possibly render it desirable, eventually.
— from Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Harry Collingwood

The other tenant of Wolfpits he rarely saw, though her five years in the old house had made her a confidante of Mary, and indeed her principal refuge in domestic emergencies.
— from The Black Diamond by Francis Brett Young

It has founded an Office of Public Road Inquiries (described elsewhere) at Washington, and under the efficient management of Hon.
— from The Future of Road-making in America by Archer Butler Hulbert

"And you'll promise not to play roulette in Dawson ever again?" "No, sir," Smoke said positively.
— from Smoke Bellew by Jack London

On the summit of Prestonbury Rings in Devonshire evidently once stood a phairie stone, and the name of Prestonpans in Scotland suggests that Prestons were not unknown in Albany.
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley