The priest waited for the answer and added: —I mean, have you ever felt within yourself, in your soul, a desire to join the order?
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Irrationality, impulsive action, accidental action, is, moreover, hated by them (as the cause of incalculable suffering).
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

After the death of Barrois my suspicions were directed towards an angel,—those suspicions which, even when there is no crime, are always alive in my heart; but after the death of Valentine, there has been no doubt in my mind, madame, and not only in mine, but in those of others; thus your crime, known by two persons, suspected by many, will soon become public, and, as I told you just now, you no longer speak to the husband, but to the judge.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

“‘The beast,’ continued Sinbad to the caliph, ‘swam, as I have related, up hill and down hill until, at length, we arrived at an island, many hundreds of miles in circumference, but which, nevertheless, had been built in the middle of the sea by a colony of little things like caterpillars’” (*1) “Hum!” said the king.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

And the custom Carneades adopted with great copiousness and acuteness, and I myself have often given in to it on many occasions elsewhere, and in this manner, too, I disputed lately, in my Tusculan villa; indeed, I have sent you a book of the four former days’ discussions; but the fifth day, when we had seated ourselves as before, what we were to dispute on was proposed thus: V. A. I do not think virtue can possibly be sufficient for a happy life.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are deep-lying sympathies and antipathies, and it may have been that, in spite of the administered justice she enjoyed at his hands, her absence from his mother’s house would not have made life barren to him.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

It seems, of all mankind there is no man so led by another as the Duke is by Lord Muskerry and this FitzHarding, insomuch, as when the King would have him to be Privy-Purse, the Duke wept, and said, “But, Sir, I must have your promise, if you will have my dear Charles from me, that if ever you have occasion for an army again, I may have him with me; believing him to be the best commander of an army in the world.”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I was not so attentive an auditor as I might have wished to be, however, for Peepy and the other children came flocking about Ada and me in a corner of the drawing-room to ask for another story; so we sat down among them and told them in whispers "Puss in Boots" and I don't know what else until Mrs. Jellyby, accidentally remembering them, sent them to bed.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Over the lion’s head appears an arm in mail, holding a shield, with the above coat of arms of the Stuarts; and in an escutcheon of pretence, a [Pg 468] lion rampant, the arms of Scotland and of Bruce.
— from Finger-Ring Lore: Historical, Legendary, Anecdotal by Jones, William, F.S.A.

I before alluded to the exquisite symmetry of the silicious and crystalline coverings of some of the simplest forms of marine animalcules; and also I may here add the beautiful colouring of shells sometimes on the inside .
— from Creation and Its Records A Brief Statement of Christian Belief with Reference to Modern Facts and Ancient Scripture by B. H. (Baden Henry) Baden-Powell

And the boy, looking pale and alarmed, almost immediately made his appearance.
— from Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Lucien Biart

As well, perhaps, Britain as another; and it might have been as well to have been under the states of Holland as any.
— from The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The American Crisis by Thomas Paine

“I drank again and again, and I must have got pretty drunk.
— from The City of Fire by Grace Livingston Hill

"Your congregation was unusually large this morning, sir," I said, smiling, "though not altogether as attentive as it might have been."
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

I concluded there had been an original arched design there and I reproduced such an arch as it might have looked based on my studies of colonial architecture."
— from The Fairfax County Courthouse by Ruby Waldeck

Tell them the celebrated Milordos Inglesis, the friend of the Universal Patriarch, is arrived, and that he kindly intends to visit their monastery; and that he is a great ally of the Sultan's, and of all the captains of all the men of war that come down the Archipelago: and," added I, "make haste now, and let us be up at the monastery lest our friends in the brig there should take it into their heads to come back and cut our throats."
— from Visits to Monasteries in the Levant by Robert Curzon

"And he loves me, too; for one day I was coming from the Queen Mother's apartment alone, and I met him on the stairs, and he told me so; and though I could not answer him, I remember all he said, and now I can tell it to you, Maria.
— from A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History (Volume 3 of 3) by Meadows Taylor

The Convention had then to grant him leave of absence, and, as it maintained him in his rank, they ordered him back to Paris.
— from Empress Josephine: An Historical Sketch of the Days of Napoleon by L. (Luise) Mühlbach