But it all upset me so much at the time, my dear.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
«Mille pardons, fait alors notre auteur avec un malin sourire.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
‘I—I—really think they are,’ urged Mr. Snodgrass, somewhat alarmed.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
"That can do little for an unhappy mind," said I. "Just so," said Mr. Vholes.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
[374] We have seen that a Utilitarian may sometimes have to override these rules; but then the case falls under the head discussed in the previous section.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick
Memory images are usually much simplified reproductions of the perceptual facts.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess
Accordingly the virgins came along playing, and suspected nothing of what was coming upon them, and walked after an unguarded manner, so those that laid scattered in the road, rose up, and caught hold of them: by this means these Benjamites got them wives, and fell to agriculture, and took good care to recover their former happy state.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus
He keeps in for state, ne majestatis dignitas evilescat , as our China kings, of Borneo, and Tartarian Chams, those aurea mancipia , are said to do, seldom or never seen abroad, ut major sit hominum erga se observantia , which the [3704] Persian kings so precisely observed of old.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
methinks I scent the morning air; Brief let me be.—Sleeping within mine orchard, My custom always in the afternoon, Upon my secure 109 hour thy uncle stole, With juice of cursed hebenon 110 in a vial,
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
She had a charming house of her own at South Yarra, which she "kept" admirably, and where, in an unpretensious manner, she had established a little salon that was a fashionable head centre in Melbourne society, and well deserved by virtue of its own legitimate merits to be so.
— from A Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 2 by Ada Cambridge
No men ever understood the principle of equality before the law more thoroughly than they, and after the establishment of this government a long series of great and upright magistrates strove, as I have shown, to carry this principle into effect.
— from The Theory of Social Revolutions by Brooks Adams
Such deeds are not means to anything except the establishment of the reign of hell on earth, and the maudlin adoration sometimes accorded their doers is evidence of an unbalanced moral sense.
— from The Middle Period, 1817-1858 by John William Burgess
It is an unaccountable, mysterious something, rooted deep in some people’s
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, No. 06, April 1878 Scribner's Illustrated by Various
There are unhappily many signs that the butchers of Constantinople are planning further massacres.
— from Crescent and Iron Cross by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
'These,' she said, 'my mistresses bid me say shall be your food until you die.' 'Damsel,' said Lancelot, 'tell me who hath brought me here and used me so evilly.'
— from King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls by Henry Gilbert
With an unconscious movement, she kicked her train aside and he saw the distributor cap lying beneath it.
— from Love Story by Irving E. Cox
I must again solemnly express my conviction that we are standing on a slumbering VOLCANO; the thoughtless and unobservant may suppose not; probably because in the present tee-total state of society they see nothing of the CRATER.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 by Various
It is thus little wonder that this non-homogeneous and rapidly rotating terrestrial globe, surrounded by an electrified atmosphere and subject to the action of a still more powerful magnet, the sun, should not behave in a [185] manner exactly analogous to a uniformly magnetized steel sphere.
— from Astronomy for Young Folks by Isabel Martin Lewis
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