My wife in a short fur-lined jacket, and in men's high golosh boots, would make her appearance twice a day, and she always said the same thing: "And this is called summer!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Of the former Mr. Yeats is the editor, rather than, in a strict sense, the author, though it contains some of his own work, and his introduction, notes, and other comments are of great interest.
— from Fairies and Folk of Ireland by William Henry Frost

I endeavoured to subdue the Emperor's prejudices; but his suspicions were stronger than any thing I could say to remove them.
— from Memoirs of General Count Rapp, first aide-de-camp to Napoleon by Rapp, Jean, comte

Going on still farther, I perceived that the snow was not falling so thick and that I could see quite a distance [Pg 69] ahead, and on either side of me, and also that night was drawing near.
— from The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain by John R. Cook

Peruse that volume, dear, for in it you will find a more vivid picture, a more poetic description of his dearly loved home and surroundings, than anything that I can say.
— from The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua by Cecilia Pauline Cleveland

For nature desires so to act that it can stand and rest firmly on itself, otherwise it refuses to make the approach.
— from Martin Luther's Large Catechism, translated by Bente and Dau by Martin Luther

Such treatment as this, I confess, seemed to us to exceed the bounds of humanity and of justice.
— from Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Complete by Madame de Montespan

I remember him saying that as though I could still hear him.
— from The Passionate Friends by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Because Massieu, the humble court usher, said to a townsman, “I can see nothing but goodness and honor in her,” he was threatened with a prison cell where never again would he see sun or moon.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

If the mean, in the first place, be not only an abstract particular character of the subject, but at the same time all the individual concrete subjects which possess that character, but possess it only along with others, (1) we have the Syllogism of Allness .
— from The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel