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"And I—" "And you are not either, dear, yet," said Jude.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
And, to conclude the whole, an arrow, neatly enough drawn, was described as the mark of the yeoman Locksley.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
182 Those who have always good hope in the midst of misfortunes, and who are delighted with good luck, are suspected of being very pleased with the ill success of the affair, if they are not equally distressed by bad luck; and they are overjoyed to find these pretexts of hope, in order to show that they are concerned and to conceal by the joy which they feign to feel that which they have at seeing the failure of the matter.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal
Herefrom it follows, first, that men think themselves free inasmuch as they are conscious of their volitions and desires, and never even dream, in their ignorance, of the causes which have disposed them so to wish and desire.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
[And though I am not every day fit nor well prepared to celebrate, I will nevertheless give diligent heed at due season, to receive the divine mysteries, and to become partaker of so great grace].
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas
Hypokeisthô gar en men tois sitiois periechesthai, mê diakrinesthai d' akribôs en hêpati; tauta gar amphotera nomizeis einai dynata.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
Again, Felix Rourke was suspected, and narrowly escaped death at the hands of his comrades.
— from Secret Service Under Pitt by William J. (William John) Fitz-Patrick
The soil too is often gypsiferous, and its salt and nitrous exudations destroy vegetation; while at the same time the streams and springs are from the same cause for the most part brackish and unpalatable.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson
INDIANA AND NORTH EASTERN DIGEST, with Indiana statute annotation service.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1962 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
"Though we speak nonsense, God will pick out the meaning of it,"—an extempore prayer by a New England divine.
— from Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Jail, for instance,” thought Jack, “and nobody ever deserved it better.”
— from The Boy Inventors' Diving Torpedo Boat by Richard Bonner
I ask, did any nation ever do more?
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress
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