Many information providers also distribute information through grassroots bulletin boards.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

“Already I saw other vast shapes—huge buildings with intricate parapets and tall columns, with a wooded hillside dimly creeping in upon me through the lessening storm.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Like all historical parallels, this comparison is open to misapprehension: but, carefully guarded, the illustration is pertinent and instructive.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

According as a man's mental energy is exerted or relaxed, will life appear to him either so short, and petty, and fleeting, that nothing can possibly happen over which it is worth his while to spend emotion; that nothing really matters, whether it is pleasure or riches, or even fame, and that in whatever way a man may have failed, he cannot have lost much—or, on the other hand, life will seem so long, so important, so all in all, so momentous and so full of difficulty that we have to plunge into it with our whole soul if we are to obtain a share of its goods, make sure of its prizes, and carry out our plans.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

But she is perfectly amiable, and often condescends to drive by my humble abode in her little phaeton and ponies.”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Slowly, as the conviction is thrust upon society that woman’s work must enter more and more into its planning, a better day is dawning.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

A variety of causes have produced it;—violent and prolonged internal disorder as in Russia and Hungary; the creation of new governments and their inexperience in the readjustment of economic relations, as in Poland and Czecho-Slovakia; the loss throughout the Continent of efficient labor, through the casualties of war or the continuance of mobilization; the falling-off in efficiency through continued underfeeding in the Central Empires; the exhaustion of the soil from lack of the usual applications of artificial manures throughout the course of the war; the unsettlement of the minds of the laboring classes on the above all (to quote Mr. Hoover), "there is a great fundamental economic issues of their lives.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Those who have a propensity to philosophy, will still continue their researches; because they reflect, that, besides the immediate pleasure, attending such an occupation, philosophical decisions are nothing but the reflections of common life, methodized and corrected.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

It yielded the point de facto, but it remained inflexible upon the principles in question; and whilst Congress was altering the tariff law, it passed another bill, by which the President was invested with extraordinary powers, enabling him to overcome by force a resistance which was then no longer to be apprehended.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

I put a dam across it to have it for my use, that is why the stream dried up.
— from The Gardener by Rabindranath Tagore

The national ideals, even of the native-born American, are deplorably low: There exists not only individual prejudice against military ideals, but public antipathy; antagonism of politicians, newspapers, churches, colleges, labor unions, theorists, and organized societies.
— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

I spent the night in prayer and supplication to God, for the anxiety of my mind would not permit me to sleep.
— from History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother by Lucy Smith

We simply want the ordinary civil rights, under which we can live and make our way in peace and amity.
— from On Horseback by Charles Dudley Warner

I therefore agreed to purchase one that I thought would suit me, of a Frenchman in Pará, and having paid part of the purchase-money, got it fitted up and laid in a stock of requisites for the voyage.
— from Travels on the Amazon by Alfred Russel Wallace

My policies have been directed in particular at three areas of change: --the steady growth and increased projection abroad of Soviet military power, power that has grown faster than our own over the past two decades.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

our soldiery carrying back with them the rudiments of this respectable branch of knowledge, and turning their swords, if not into ploughshares, at least into as peaceable and innocent a mode of gaining a livelihood.
— from Scenes and Adventures in Affghanistan by William Taylor

But, before he thinks of these things, he is particularly anxious that she should be beautiful, and graceful, and money in her purse makes her still more desirable."
— from Playing With Fire by Amelia E. Barr

"'Her nature intended her for the representation of ideal heroines whose love is pure, and it does not allow her to depict the violence of physical passion and the delirium of the senses.
— from Sister Teresa by George Moore

If you wish to hold up your head in the country; if you wish to represent your county in Parliament, as has been done by your father, your grandfather, and your great-grandfathers; if you wish to keep a house over your head, and to leave Greshamsbury to your son after you, you must marry money.
— from Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope