There will be enough for every hope and every fear; and though my attachment to none can equal that of a parent, it suits my ideas of comfort better than what is warmer and blinder.
— from Emma by Jane Austen
But night came at last, and every time the clock struck, the sisters, still sitting on either side of the bed, looked at each other with brightening eyes, for each hour brought help nearer.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Ah, when, within our narrow chamber The lamp with friendly lustre glows, Flames in the breast each faded ember, And in the heart, itself that knows.
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Adj. hoping &c. v.; in hopes &c. n.; hopeful, confident; secure &c. (certain) 484; sanguine, in good heart, buoyed up, buoyant, elated, flushed, exultant, enthusiastic; heartsome[obs3]; utopian.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
I am even inclined to suppose that towards the end he had been entirely forgotten everywhere; but still it cannot be said that his name had never been known.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It may then fairly be inferred, that, till society be differently constituted, much cannot be expected from education.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft
how come it to pass that the Gods having ordered all other things so well and so lovingly, should be overseen in this one only thing, that whereas then hath been some very good men that have made many covenants as it were with God and by many holy actions and outward services contracted a kind of familiarity with Him; that these men when once they are dead, should never be restored to life, but be extinct for ever.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius
I should like to know how many cargoes of imitation idealism, of hero-costumes and high falutin' clap-trap, how many casks of sweetened pity liqueur (Firm: la religion de la souffrance ), how many crutches of righteous indignation for the help of these flat-footed intellects, how many comedians of the Christian moral ideal would need to-day to be exported from Europe, to enable its air to smell pure again.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
3 [A12] be enough for each to have a share.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
The park will be empty, for every one will be at the football match.”
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
He was faintly sulky when she took no notice, her bright blue eyes fixed excitedly on the rustling gorse.
— from The Scratch Pack by Dorothea Conyers
The philosophers may certainly be excused for entertaining a little doubt of this legend.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 07 by Voltaire
it seems to be extinguished for ever.—Patriotic Lord-mayor of London!
— from A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir
Her face, prone to betray each fleeting emotion, exhibited surprise, almost consternation.
— from The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate by Louis Tracy
The Báhikas eat flesh even the flesh of the cow and drink liquor.
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell
We have no room to extract them: one remark only we must make—that we do not see how it is possible to ascribe any peculiar and incommunicable privileges to the premial as opposed to the penal counters, when it appears that they may be exchanged for each other 'at an established rate.'
— from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Thomas De Quincey
Thus did Maxence spend his boyhood between equally fatal exaggerations, between the revolting brutalities of his father, and the dangerous caresses of his mother; the one depriving him of every thing, the other refusing him nothing.
— from Other People's Money by Emile Gaboriau
One line, which ought, in my opinion, to be erased from every copy, by a special act of parliament, is mentioned by Anderson, as pronounced by the hero in his sleep, O Sweden!
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson
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