If he asks permission to call in the morning, you must, unless prevented by an imperative engagement, remain at home to see him.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

" So, too, the mason acknowledges every initiate as his brother, and is ever ready and anxious to receive all the light that can be bestowed on the Mysteries in which he has been indoctrinated.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

“There is some good and some bad, as in everything,” replied the sailor.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

This Providence we do [p. 145] not, it is true, perceive in the cunning contrivances [ Kunstanstalten ] of nature; nor can we even conclude from the fact of their existence that it is there; but, as in every relation between the form of things and their final cause, we can, and must, supply the thought of a Higher Wisdom, in order that we may be able to form an idea of the possible existence of these products after the analogy of human works of art [ Kunsthand [p. 146] lungen ].
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

68 The confusion then became general, and the dismayed troops of Maxentius, pursued by an implacable enemy, rushed by thousands into the deep and rapid stream of the Tyber.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The confusion then became general, and the dismayed troops of Maxentius, pursued by an implacable enemy, rushed by thousands into the deep and rapid stream of the Tyber.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

'However that may be, Annette,' interrupted Emily, recovering her composure, 'it does not become you to speak of the faults of my aunt to me.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The strangers led them on to a large and rude hall, partially seen by a fire that blazed at its extremity, round which four men, in the hunter's dress, were seated, and on the hearth were several dogs stretched in sleep.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Forty-eight guns with ammunition have been sent him from here, and his Serene Highness says he will defend Moscow to the last drop of blood and is even ready to fight in the streets.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Antig`one` , the daughter of Oedipus, king of Thebes, led about her father when he was blind and in exile, returned to Thebes on his death; was condemned to be buried alive for covering her brother's exposed body with earth in defiance of the prohibition of Creon, who had usurped the throne; Creon's son, out of love for her, killed himself on the spot where she was buried.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

Both are in essential relation to one another; and the one of the two is, only in so far as it excludes the other from it, and thus relates itself thereto.
— from The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

You of all men are bound to be alert in every research that may guide the retribution of justice to the assassin of your benefactor.”
— from A Strange Story — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Lucy retreated before its advancing bulk and its extreme rage.
— from The Magic City by E. (Edith) Nesbit

I felt just about as bad as I ever remember to have felt.
— from Forty Years Among the Indians A true yet thrilling narrative of the author's experiences among the natives by Daniel W. (Daniel Webster) Jones

We rode in double file, Joan and her brothers in the center of the column, with Jean de Metz at the head of it and the Sieur Bertrand at its extreme rear.
— from Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain

By an inevitable evolution religion has to-day come to represent among certain nations the spirit of caste and intolerance, and consequently of jealousy and enmity, whereas non-religion has come to be the recognized champion of social equality, of tolerance, and of fraternity.
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau

Such a cat has a peculiar way of mewing quite different from its brethren, and is easily recognised.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12) by James George Frazer

’s Performance would, upon both these Accounts, sufficiently recommend itself to our Approbation.—I confess, there are very considerable Beauties in this Piece: but yet if it should be examin’d by those Rules of Characteristic-Writing, which I have already mention’d, and which I take to be essential 66 to Performances in this Kind, I am afraid it would not be able, in every Respect, to stand the Test of an impartial Examination.
— from A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) by Henry Gally

—In bathing, as in exercise, regularity and system should control, if any physical advantage is expected to follow.
— from Health: How to get it and keep it. The hygiene of dress, food, exercise, rest, bathing, breathing, and ventilation. by Walter V. Woods