“When you pay me a visit in my cell, my young friend,” said he, “I will show you an entire work, the fruits of the thoughts and reflections of my whole life; many of them meditated over in the shades of the Colosseum at Rome, at the foot of St. Mark’s column at Venice, and on the borders of the Arno at Florence, little imagining at the time that they would be arranged in order within the walls of the Château d’If.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

But I draw the line at Anarchism and Free Love and that sort of thing.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

Her flatter’d breast Thanks him who finds her fair and good; She loves her fears; veil’d joys arrest The foolish terrors of her blood; By secret, sweet degrees, her heart, Vanquish’d, takes warmth from his desire; She makes it more, with hidden art, And fuels love’s late dreaded fire.
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

Still, though not actually received at the Hôtel Danglars in the light of an acknowledged friend, Louise was treated with far more kindness and consideration than is usually bestowed on a governess.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

We must either deny that reason can effect anything, while, on the other hand, nothing can be done right without reason, or else, since philosophy depends on the deductions of reason, we must seek from her, if we would be good or happy, every help and assistance for living well and happily.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

This would be a hell to him; and if he had any wisdom he would know that his own civilization is a hell to the savage—but he hasn’t any, and has never had any; and for lack of it he shut up those poor natives in the unimaginable perdition of his civilization, committing his crime with the very best intentions, and saw those poor creatures waste away under his tortures; and gazed at it, vaguely troubled and sorrowful, and wondered what could be the matter with them.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Then I saw the Gwrach y Rhibyn, saw her plainly, sir, a horrible old woman with long red hair and a face like chalk, and great teeth like tusks, looking back over her shoulder at me as she went through the air with a long black gown trailing along the ground below her arms, for body I could make out none.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

I shall tell thee, said the king, I am sick for anger and for love of fair Igraine, that I may not be whole.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

They also sent for her acceptance a fine large sheep.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

Many of its mansions comprise all the luxuries and conveniences of the metropolis, with the sanitary advantages of marine villas; leaving nothing to be desired by the most fastidious taste, and affording accommodation for large establishments conducted upon a scale befitting the highest ranks of our aristocracy.
— from The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain Vol. 2 by W. (William) Finden

He even maintained this hypothesis when I had proved in my investigations on Hydromedusae that the sexual cells are not always separated from the somatic cells during embryonic development, but often at a far later period.
— from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems Authorised Translation by August Weismann

He was tricked out in his best; an immense blue coat, thick with brass buttons, hung as low as to his knees, and a fine laced hat was set on the back of his head.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Nevertheless, the night was not entirely dark, as a faint luminous radiance was everywhere spread, and he could pick his way along the highroad very easily.
— from The Sealed Message by Fergus Hume

He reported the tea, after which twenty days are allowed for landing it and paying the duty.
— from Novanglus, and Massachusettensis or, Political Essays, Published in the Years 1774 and 1775, on the Principal Points of Controversy, between Great Britain and Her Colonies by Daniel Leonard

The mother of a large family has her worries, many of them not due to her children, but to the social evils of our time: and yet she is less to be pitied than the woman who is losing her beauty after a fevered life of, vanity and self-indulgence, and who has no one to love her, not even a child.
— from Birth Control: A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians by Halliday Sutherland

He threw open a door, and we entered a very large room, which was packed with men and a few ladies, all in evening dress.
— from Victor Victorious by Cecil Starr Johns

We abate a fever; lessen anxiety; moderate passions or desires; lighten burdens; mitigate or alleviate pain; reduce inflammation;
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

It was agreed on all hands that nature had formed her for a lady's-maid, and a few lessons from a hairdresser would make her perfection; and she would be invaluable in reading to Louisa when restless and unable to sleep.
— from Dynevor Terrace; Or, The Clue of Life — Volume 2 by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge