"The people were serious minded, and the reader finds scarce humor in their literature."
(My son left his high school British Literature text book on the desk. Talking about the Anglo-Saxon period historical context)
"The people were serious minded, and the reader finds scarce humor in their literature."
(My son left his high school British Literature text book on the desk. Talking about the Anglo-Saxon period historical context)
"Note that the last term has only two significant figures (the zero is significant)."
Essentials Of Applied Physics by John E. Betts
"My first interview with the manager was curious."
-Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
'What's the matter with you?' he drawled.
"That was very nice," she said and went back to the kitchen.
From the short story "The Barber": The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
"Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch and no precaution could prevent me from taking the ell."
-Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass
"The wandering, murderous monster slew him in Heorot; and I do not know where that ghoul, drooling at her feast of flesh and blood, made off afterwards."
English Literature textbook of mine
Among others of this kind was Dr. Blifil, a gentleman who had the misfortune of losing the advantage of great talents by the obstinacy of a father, who would breed him to a profession he disliked.
- Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
"'Not one of them would have stopped her, even that little one almost old enough to be selfish and stone-hearted like the rest of them.'"
-As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Jenny was now summoned to appear in person before Mrs. Deborah, which she immediately did.
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
He was more nervous than he had thought and kept turning his head this way and that as if afraid he was being observed by thousands of eyes hidden in the darkness of the aisles between the shelves.
At last he could go no farther, and the stone tired him terribly; he dragged himself to the side of a pond, that he might drink some water, and rest a while; so he laid the stone carefully by his side on the bank: but as he stopped down to drink, he forgot it, pushed it a little, and down it went plump into the pond.
"Grimms' Fairy Tales" by Brothers Grimm - Tale: Hans In Luck
Mrs Nugent was his sister.
"His bald purplish head now looked for all the world like a mildewed skull." from Moby Dick
"Les plus sensés faisaient observer que monsieur Cruchot de Bonfons avait ses entrées à toute heure au logis, tandis que son rival n'y était reçu que les dimanches."
"The most sensible ones remarked that Mr Cruchot de Bonfons was welcomed in the house at all hours of the day, while his rival was only received there on Sundays."
Eugénie Grandet, Honoré de Balzac, 1833