With a gloomy mind, Siddhartha went to the pleasure-garden he owned, locked the gate, sat down under a mango-tree, felt death in his heart and horror in his chest, sat and sensed how everything died in him, withered in him, came to an end in him.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

He has received certificates of character from A. Schultens, Herder, Eichorn, Dathe, Ilgen, who proposed a new word for Satan in the prologue of Job, which would make him a faithful but too suspicious servant of God.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

To the eyes of some it has been represented by the venal suffrages of a few of the satellites of power; to others by the votes of a timid or an interested minority; and some have even discovered it in the silence of a people, on the supposition that the fact of submission established the right of command.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The post, *t that great instrument of intellectual intercourse, now reaches into the backwoods; and steamboats have established daily means of communication between the different points of the coast.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

At this a sudden change evidently took place in the princess’ ideas; her thin lips grew white, though her eyes did not change, and her voice when she began to speak passed through such transitions as she herself evidently did not expect.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It seems that the rest could not be promoted much beyond that degree of friendship which consisted in kissing her hand and seeing her every day.
— from On Love by Stendhal

He still slowly moved his finger over his upper lip, and still his eye dwelt dreamily on the glowing grate; thinking it urgent to say something, I asked him presently if he felt any cold draught from the door, which was behind him.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

To see a foolhardy fellow like those old Danes, qui decollari malunt quam verberari , die rather than be punished, in a sottish humour embrace death with alacrity, yet
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The origin of Irish Christianity is very obscure, and some have even doubted the existence of St. Patrick.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Buccola found (La Legge del Tempo nei Fenomeni dei Pensiero, Milano, 1883, p. 371) that, after much practice in making rapid reactions upon a signal, he estimated directly, in figures, his own reaction-time, in 10 experiments, with an error of from 0.016'' to 0.018''; in 6, with one of 0.005'' to 0.069''; in one, with one of 0.002''; and in 3, with one of 0.003''.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Tonti, who had made a campaign in Sicily, where his hand had been carried off by the explosion of a grenade, was a brave and skilful officer, who always showed himself extremely devoted.
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 1. The Exploration of the World by Jules Verne

As to my public acts and public conduct, they are subjects for the judgment of my fellow-citizens; but my private motives of action—that which prompted me to take the part which I may have done, upon great measures during their progress in the national councils, can be known only to the Great Searcher of the human heart and myself; and I trust I shall be pardoned for repeating again a declaration which I made thirty years ago: that whatever error I may have committed—and doubtless I have committed many during my public service—I may appeal to the Divine Searcher of hearts for the truth of the declaration which I now make, with pride and confidence, that I have been actuated by no personal motives—that I have sought no personal aggrandizement—no promotion from the advocacy of those various measures on which I have been called to act—that I have had an eye, a single eye, a heart, a single heart, ever devoted to what appeared to be the best interests of the country."
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

But this much I know, about twelve months ago, That the Constable sold at the post, his last cow; Yet Tom dash'd away, spending hundreds each day, Till his merchants brought suits for their dry goods and wines; So Tom join'd the throng, and assisted the song, With a curse on these Banks, and these dreadful hard times.
— from The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 04 (1820) by Various

He was a composer-pianist, and as such he ever desired to be regarded.
— from Edward MacDowell: A Study by Lawrence Gilman

Also, moccasins were procured from the buckskin, and some had enough deer-skin to make covering for beds.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

I am by his side and see him every day.
— from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. Second Series by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

He lingered in her memory, a vision from another world than any she had ever dreamed—a world of heroic romance and of lofty idealism.
— from A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews

It is a well-known fact that, in all countries, fathers and sons have entertained different views, both political and religious, and have given public expression of them; so, also, brothers have arrayed themselves against brothers in civil and ecclesiastical contests.
— from Woman: Man's Equal by Thomas Webster

She had appetite enough to relish what she ate, slept as soundly as she had ever done, and had never a headache.
— from Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) by Lewis Melville