Cold nights, bad living, and blows had to be endured; then he felt his noble Spanish blood boil within him, and bitter, angry, words rose to his lips, but he gulped them down; it was better, although he felt as the eel must feel when it is skinned, cut up, and put into the frying-pan.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

He has since apologised for his haste, saying that he wished to secure possession of me before I could think of resistance, so as to ensure more facilities of connection hereafter.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

That accomplished, the earth might freeze over her for ever.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Subjective attitude may become objective falsehood in spite of the best endeavor of the witness, and the examiner may fail altogether to distinguish between what is truth and what poetry.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

he said, addressing the Englishwoman, “Meess Fyce, je voo pree . . . ?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The College is closed, but a great misfortune has come upon me; through the grace of God, if I be not able to extricate myself from it, I shall never be able any more to show my face to thee.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

And as that eloquent moralist followed the common received division of the four cardinal virtues, our social duties form but one head, in the general distribution of his subject.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

In fact he might even, through all this, have been able to estrange me from my family, and no doubt he hoped to be restored to favour with them; to say nothing of revenging himself on me personally, for he has grounds for supposing that the honour and happiness of Sofya Semyonovna are very precious to me.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The flowers are of the same form and bigness; but in some of a pale, in others of a bright red colour, cut in at the ends more finely, which makes the leaves look more in number than the other.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Wà kay awturidad sa pagpapaháwà nákù áning yutáa, You have no authority to eject me from this land.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Public opinion regarding Persian stories and poems has been led astray by the changes of sex and the expurgations made freely by translators.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

I never attempted to explain my feelings to him, and I don't suppose he understands to this day the terrible pain his laugh gave me.
— from Aliens by William McFee

It is a mere invention to frighten us and to extort money from us--or perhaps, ha! now I see!
— from Problematic Characters: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

I had had quite enough of a “life on the ocean wave,” and though I had no great fancy for working all day at a desk, I agreed to enter my father’s office and tackle to in earnest, my incentive to labour, I confess, being the hope of one day becoming the husband of Grace Goldie.
— from Happy Jack, and Other Tales of the Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

“My only reason for entertaining the proposition is my anxiety to emancipate myself from the trammels of this failing place, where I see my prospects daily retrograding, and every chance of my being left the only resident in a healthy population.
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Charles James Lever

They are to exercise mutual forbearance and tenderness towards each other's faults, and, at the same time, to watch over and admonish one another.
— from A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Harvey Newcomb

Matt was not able to extract much fun from the situation.
— from Motor Matt on the Wing; or, Flying for Fame and Fortune by Stanley R. Matthews

It will be necessary, after this slight outline describing the essential parts of the apparatus, to enter more fully into the details of the several parts.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge