" A minute passed in silence.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

As long as I lived unknown to the public I was beloved by all my private acquaintance, and I had not a single enemy.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And more particularly, how can there be knowledge of general propositions in cases where we have not examined all the instances, and indeed never can examine them all, because their number is infinite?
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The bright blaze of the fire rose and fell, flashing now upon the polished carvings of the black-oak bookcase, now upon the gold and scarlet bindings of the books; sometimes glimmering upon the Athenian helmet of a marble Pallas, sometimes lighting up the forehead of Sir Robert Peel.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

You wished to carry away the memory of that woman, as you could not possess her person, and you have written some very beautiful lines which prove, in the same degree as my pain, what a profound and striking impression she produced upon you.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Pondering over my plan with the utmost coolness, I went and bought some balls of lead as large as my pockets would hold, and as heavy as I could bear, to carry to the Tower, where I intended to go on foot.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

—In cases where the observance of a moral precept has led to different consequence from that expected and [pg 029] promised, and does not bestow upon the moral man the happiness he had hoped for, but leads rather to misfortune and misery, the conscientious and timid man has always his excuse ready: “Something was lacking in the proper carrying out of the law.”
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

When she could retire to her own apartment, her mind almost involuntarily dwelt on the most probable means of prevailing with the Count to withdraw his suit, and to her liberal mind none appeared more probable, than that of acknowledging to him a prior attachment and throwing herself upon his generosity for a release.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of receipt of the work.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

[Sidenote: Chaucer and Marco Polo.]
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The double-bottom frames and margin plates are united with the keel-plate, and subsequently there are successively worked into the structure the tank top plates, side frames, the skin plates, beams, bulk-heads, and other units, portable hydraulic punches and riveters being largely used.
— from Two Centuries of Shipbuilding by the Scotts at Greenock by Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd.

"His death, his sorrows are the heavy curse That hangs above my poor, distracted head!
— from Poems by Matilda Betham

Moreover, as this external cause can blend as much pleasure as it will with the volition which it impresses upon us, we shall be able to feel at times that the acts of our will please us infinitely, and that they lead us according to the bent of our strongest inclinations.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

And by the help of the Bishop and Queen Anne’s Bounty, and what not, aided by just as many half-crowns as the valley found itself unable to defend against the encroachments of a new and ‘moiderin’ parson, ‘summat’ was done, whereof the results—namely, the new church, vicarage, and school-house—were now conspicuous.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

So shameful are they that, even if my heat and my pen did not carry me away, a very heart of stone would be moved to seize a weapon, how much more myself, who am hot and whose pen is not entirely blunt.'
— from Life of Luther by Julius Köstlin

All that Joe thought of, when he looked upon a noble maple, was, how much potash it would make, whether a keel-piece could be got out of it; or upon a majestic pine, how many boards it would scale.
— from Arthur Brown, The Young Captain The Pleasant Cove Series by Elijah Kellogg

Thus will be remembered the instance of the end of the great Græco-Roman civilization, without adequate parallel in universal history, followed by the return of barbarism in the Middle Ages; or the common example of the shipwreck of noblest enterprises; or (to remain in the field that more nearly interests [Pg 254] us) the philosophic decadence, owing to which, a mean positivism was able to follow the idealism of the beginning of the nineteenth century, which stands to the former as the eloquence of an Attic orator to the stuttering of an ignorant school-boy.
— from The Philosophy of the Practical: Economic and Ethic by Benedetto Croce

Brown and his party by noon were driven into an engine-house near the armory, where they had barred the doors and windows, and made port-holes for their rifles.
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer