Milly has a position down in Mullingar, you know.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The self-same blood in both, I'm just as good as he: A poison dwells in me As virulent as doth[ 25 ] In him.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

It was thus rather the exacting nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was, and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man’s dual nature.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

If there is to be an a priori division it must be either analytical , according to the law of contradiction, which is always twofold ( quodlibet ens est aut A aut non A ); or it is synthetical .
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Of course, as we have seen, there is a primary demand in man which death and mutation contradict flatly, so that no summons to cease can ever be obeyed with complete willingness.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

You seem to me to assume a principle, despotically I may say, that has no manner of probability in it.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

To some, from a natural inaptitude, and to others, from a perverse disinclination, it may never come.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

It was thus rather the exacting 83) nature of my aspirations than any particular degradation in my faults, that made me what I was and, with even a deeper trench than in the majority of men, severed in me those provinces of good and ill which divide and compound man's dual nature.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

All that appears permanently divergent is made the subject of damnatory prejudice; and the more apparent and seeming, the more primitive the impression that restrains, the more general the prejudice; smell affects more keenly than form, and form more than mode of thought.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

But he that permits men to talk, yet doth not allow set and profitable discourses, is much more ridiculous than he who thinks that his guests should eat and drink, yet gives them foul wine, unsavory and nastily prepared meat.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

No; I am perfectly delighted, I mean.
— from Marjorie Dean, College Freshman by Josephine Chase

Then she made me join my hands; she prayed, and peace descended into my soul.”
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 4 by Frederick Whymper

Her father had robbed Mr. Morley (her lover's brother) of a considerable sum of money, and had purloined his valuable papers, and had moreover gone to a public ball at Penzance, dressed in Mr. Morley's clothes.
— from The Wizard of West Penwith: A Tale of the Land's-End by William Bentinck Forfar

A prophetic dream is mentioned upon, one of the statues of Telloh.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

Dorine , a petulant domestic in Molière's "Tartuffe." Doris , a small mountainous country of ancient Greece, S. of Thessaly, and embracing the valley of the Pindus.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Nobody whom Robespierre selected for execution would be allowed to delay judgment by defence; and that there might be no exception or immunity from arbitrary arrest and immediate sentence, all previous decrees in matter of procedure were revoked.
— from Lectures on the French Revolution by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

Now, we appeal to any father, husband, brother, cousin, or lover (the two latter often synonymous,—see all the dictionaries, classical and vulgate); Did you ever see a young lady draw, with grace, a cork out of a bottle in the old-fashioned way, that is, by placing it within the ample folds of her dress (all the more ample if crinoline were concealed behind it), and then tugging until the cork is extracted; if the cork be an easy, obedient, willing cork, the operation is not difficult, and woman’s want of grace is but for the moment, but it became momentous, to say nothing of bursting of tapes and wrenching of hooks and eyes, red face and perhaps disappointment, if main force must be resorted to.
— from Rambles on Railways by Roney, Cusack P., Sir