Act in haste and repent at leisure—and often in pain.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

As an instance: Owen, in speaking of the dugong, says, "The generative organs, being those which are most remotely related to the habits and food of an animal, I have always regarded as affording very clear indications of its true affinities.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

He had asked me to dine with him several times before, and I had always refused, and now I would not accept until I had heard what guests he had invited.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

As an instance: Owen, in speaking of the dugong, says, "The generative organs being those which are most remotely related to the habits and food of an animal, I have always regarded as affording very clear indications of its true affinities.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

In the North, as I have already remarked, a twofold migration ensues upon the abolition of slavery, or even precedes that event when circumstances have rendered it probable; the slaves quit the country to be transported southwards; and the whites of the Northern States, as well as the emigrants from Europe, hasten to fill up their place.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

By nature grave and inarticulate, he admired recklessness and gaiety in others and was warmed to the marrow by friendly human intercourse.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

We mounted on camels again and Miss Roe and I had a race across the yielding sand, the Cincinnati young lady coming out ahead.
— from Around the World in Seven Months by Charles J. Gillis

In the height of the Winter season of 1881-82, when the semi-tropical glory of Southern California was most appealing, Helen Hunt Jackson, exploring the Southwest for materials of value in the study of the Indian, came to Los Angeles and met, as I have already related, Abbot Kinney, himself a student of the aborigines.
— from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark by Harris Newmark

The picture it presented, before the Germans arrived, I have always regarded as portraying the condition of the whole Empire.
— from Secrets of the Bosphorus by Henry Morgenthau

Chateaubriand, who during his exile visited the "Natchez Country," found here the inspiration and theme for writings which have made him immortal, and in his "Attala," "Rene," and in his great epic "The Natchez," has given us the impressions made [Pg 208] upon his poetic imagination by the beauties of the landscape.
— from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 02 (of 14), 1899 by Mississippi Historical Society

In “Show Hunters of the Year” the successes of various studs and individual horses are reviewed; a portrait of Mr. Stokes’ gelding, Whiskey, accompanies the article.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

Supper ended Pocahuntas was lodged in the gunner's roome, but Iapazeus and his wife desired to have some conference with their brother, which was onely to acquaint him by what stratagem they had betraied his prisoner as I have already related: after which discourse to sleepe they went, Pocahuntas nothing mistrusting this policy, who nevertheless being most possessed with feere, and desire of returne, was first up, and hastened Iapazeus to be gon.
— from The Story of Pocahontas by Charles Dudley Warner

" "And is he a Rose, also?" "Of course not; he's a man—a wonderful man," was the reply.
— from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

McIntosh having thus graciously assented, Vandeloup took him up to the Club, and introduced him all round as the manager of the famous Pactolus.
— from Madame Midas by Fergus Hume

Another blaze and a following roar drew the exclamation; but before George had had time to draw breath after it, he and Roger and Maxime were all three in the water.
— from The Castle Of The Shadows by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

To be sure, the magneto is delicate, and for that reason it should never be dissected by the amateur, but inasmuch as what few adjustments it has are readily accessible, it is seldom that the machine need to be taken apart.
— from The Gasoline Motor by Harold Whiting Slauson