There is the feeling that one is utterly out of hand, with the very distinct consciousness of an endless number of fine thrills and titillations descending to one's very toes;—there is a depth of happiness in which the most painful and gloomy parts do not act as antitheses to the rest, but are produced and required as necessary shades of colour in such an overflow of light.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

pray, do people get into a passion at random at Noisy?
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

“I am unworthy, am I, and petty and rude and not a man and my temperament doesn’t suit you?
— from The Inevitable by Louis Couperus

Just when it occurred in Howard Spence it is difficult to say, but we have got to consider him henceforth as a husband; one who regards his home as a shipyard rather than the sanctuary of a goddess; as a launching place, the ways of which are carefully greased, that he may slide off to business every morning with as little friction as possible, and return at night to rest undisturbed in a comfortable berth, to ponder over the combat of the morrow.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

This is a perfectly apt retort, and not at all flippant as it may seem at first.
— from The Gospel of the Hereafter by J. Paterson (John Paterson) Smyth

Austria, Prussia, and Russia agreed not to recognise Louis Philippe, and entered into a convention for mutual aid in the event of French aggression.
— from The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by John Knight Fotheringham

Let them caution us against vaunting too much of our own power and prowess, and reviling a noble enemy.
— from Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving

All these scenes are priestly and religious, and not, as in Assyria, devoted to the glory of the king and to the memory of his warlike exploits.
— from Manual of Oriental Antiquities by Ernest Babelon

Whereas a Cevenol is ready at all times for a prophecy, a revelation, a new doctrine, the upset of one that is old, taking up what is fresh with fanaticism, and then letting it drop and lapsing into indifference, the man of the Margeride remains as constant, as unmoved as his own rocky mountains.
— from A Book of the Cevennes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Belknap asked presently, and receiving a negative answer went on observing.
— from The Luminous Face by Carolyn Wells

There is no reason why Georgia should not become as popular a resort as Norway or Switzerland.
— from The Kingdom of Georgia: Notes of travel in a land of women, wine, and song by John Oliver Wardrop