These things made it very hard, if not impossible, as I have said, to prevent the spreading of an infection by the shutting up of houses—unless the people would think the shutting of their houses no grievance, and be so willing to have it done as that they would give notice duly and faithfully to the magistrates of their being infected as soon as it was known by themselves; but as that cannot be expected from them, and the examiners cannot be supposed, as above, to go into their houses to visit and search, all the good of shutting up houses will be defeated, and few houses will be shut up in time, except those of the poor, who cannot conceal it, and of some people who will be discovered by the terror and consternation which the things put them into.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Tess had thirty pounds coming to her almost immediately from Angel's bankers, and, the case being so deplorable, as soon as the sum was received she sent the twenty as requested.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

"I hope I may be able to come back and recall those pleasant memories once more," I continued; "but as there is some uncertainty about the future, I must take my opportunity when I can get it, and speak to you now.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

According to a tribal legend, when, in the morning of time, costumes were being distributed by the deity to the various races of the earth, [ 397 ] the Vettuva women, being asked to choose between a costume which needed to be changed daily, and one which needed to be changed only yearly, readily expressed a preference for the former, and the deity, considering this an unpardonable piece of vanity, decreed that thenceforth the women should dress in leaves gathered fresh every morning.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

It is also often argued, and still oftener thought, that none but bad men would desire to weaken these salutary beliefs; and there can be nothing wrong, it is thought, in restraining bad
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

For example, if we take away by degrees from our conceptions of a body all that can be referred to mere sensuous experience—colour, hardness or softness, weight, even impenetrability—the body will then vanish; but the space which it occupied still remains, and this it is utterly impossible to annihilate in thought.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

For Kant perpetual peace is an ideal, not merely as a speculative Utopian idea, with which in fancy we may play, but as a moral principle, which ought to be, and therefore can be, realised.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

You seduce a woman that you may set your foot on such and such a rung of the social ladder; you sow dissension among the children of a family; you descend, in short, to every base action that can be committed at home or abroad, to gain your own ends for your own pleasure or your profit; and can you imagine that these are acts of faith, hope, or charity?
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

The fourth section of discussion is supposed to be about the child, but I think it will be mostly about the mother.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Camp was broken, and the clear bugle notes of "boots and saddles" were ringing on the still morning air as Boyd and Salano rode away from the camp on the return trail to St. Augustine.
— from Through Swamp and Glade: A Tale of the Seminole War by Kirk Munroe

15 , in which w w represents the wall-rock, a a , b b , c c are successive layers of quartz, fluorite and barite, and the central band, d , is galenite.
— from Common Minerals and Rocks by William O. (William Otis) Crosby

They are boiling as they come bursting out of the ground, aren't they?"
— from Our Little Swiss Cousin by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade

I retired to my chamber, where I writ a letter to let him know my aversion to the man proposed was too great to be overcome, that I should be miserable beyond all things could be imagined, but I was in his hands, and he might dispose of me as he thought fit.
— from Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) by Lewis Melville

Mr. Haydon sat down with his back against the cliff, but Jack could not keep still.
— from Jack Haydon's Quest by John Finnemore

It was fortunately moonlight; but the jungle was so thick that the narrow track was barely perceptible; thus both camels and donkeys ran against the trunks of trees, smashing the luggage and breaking all that could be broken.
— from In the Heart of Africa by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

One afternoon I walked over to Bailleul and had a bath at the Corps baths.
— from Q.6.a and Other places: Recollections of 1916, 1917 and 1918 by Francis Buckley

I was so busy about that canvassing business.
— from Philippa by Mrs. Molesworth