My reader, I know, is one who would not thank me for an elaborate reproduction of poetic first impressions; and it is well, inasmuch as I had neither time nor mood to cherish such; arriving as I did late, on a dark, raw, and rainy evening, in a Babylon and a wilderness, of which the vastness and the strangeness tried to the utmost any powers of clear thought and steady self-possession with which, in the absence of more brilliant faculties, Nature might have gifted me.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Fair Play: Scorning to take unfair advantage of a rival and readiness even to give up an advantage to him.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

H'm, this is a surprising reaction, a really energetic denial.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

At the very time when Domitian, confined to his palace, felt the terrors which he inspired, his legions, under the command of the virtuous Agricola, defeated the collected force of the Caledonians, at the foot of the Grampian Hills; and his fleets, venturing to explore an unknown and dangerous navigation, displayed the Roman arms round every part of the island.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

refuse a request ein Gesuch bewilligen grant a request ein Gewerbe betreiben to carry on a trade ein größerer Beitrag a major contribution ein Großhändler packt
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

It naturally brings upon them the reproach and resentment everywhere visited upon "tramps" and "vagabonds."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Why, for instance, should the following caution be given, when art of every kind must contaminate the mind; and why entangle the grand motives of action, which reason and religion equally combine to enforce, with pitiful worldly shifts and slight of hand tricks to gain the applause of gaping tasteless fools?
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Post primam demum horam noctis et Romana acies respiravit et hostium cessit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

As they have sown, so shall they reap and reap, even when the poppy flowers of passion have withered in their hands, and their harvest is but bitter tares, garnered in satiety.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Who would not be early to rise, and rise earlier and earlier every successive day of his life, till he became unspeakably healthy, wealthy, and wise?
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The teaching work, the cornerstone of the Bahá’í Edifice and the primary purpose of every Bahá’í institution, so emphatically stressed by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in His Will, should, above all, be reinvigorated and relentlessly expanded.
— from The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 1) by Effendi Shoghi

So we passed through room after room, each as funereal as the other, till we came to the last of all.
— from Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

The late Mr. Hepworth Dixon introduced into one of his romances a romantic Elzevir Greek Testament, “worth its weight in gold.”
— from Books and Bookmen by Andrew Lang

He is reading and rereading each of those letters for the last time and destroying them.
— from The Room with the Little Door by Roland Burnham Molineux

He sought round and round every part of the room, even the bed where the princess lay was not exempt from the inquiry; he turned the princess on one side and the other, stripped her quite naked, but no mouse was to be found; the princess herself was kind enough to assist, but still to no purpose.
— from The Story of the White Mouse by Unknown

The ambassadors from the States, and those from Spain, were obliged to be conducted by different ways to the presence chamber, that they might not meet, and the very chamber and bed which had been prepared for the reception of the Infanta at St. James’s, were allotted to Count Mansfeld, the ambassador from the Protestant party in Germany, who, notwithstanding a protest from the Spanish ambassador, was graciously received, and royally entertained by the King.
— from The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 2 (of 3) From original and authentic sources by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

This seems rather a roundabout explanation; but no better has been proposed, and, of course, Quintus, who had lately read the speech, would be able better to understand the allusion.
— from The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Note 6162 ( return ) [ "Ambroise Rendu et l'Université de France," by E. Rendu (1861), pp. 25 and 26.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

And let it be known once more that until woman and man recognize and realize equality, social and political progress here or anywhere will not be possible....
— from A Compilaton on Women by Universal House of Justice