[To IRINA] I’ve grown used to you and do you think it will be easy for me to part from you?
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Mas sayun pag lukdúhun (lukdúun, ilukdu) nákù ang duwang, It would be easier for me to carry the basin on my head.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Plenty bully enough for me.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

But courage and coolness were the last things that could be expected from Mrs. Brand.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

I have better employment for my time and strength than such arguments would imply.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

This was certainly the greatest advantage that could be drawn from my follies; the love of good which has never once been effaced from my heart, turned them towards useful objects, the moral of which might have produced its good effects.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I knew he would come and persuade me to this step, and that he would adduce the argument that it would be easier for me to die ‘among people and
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Right joyous are we to behold your face, Most worthy brother England; fairly met!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Heaven knows it would be easier for me to use the stock phrases on which we were brought up and fed up.
— from The Love Chase by Felix Grendon

Huguenot ministers were to be exempt from military service, and the King promised to contribute an annual sum for their support; while the Protestants, on their part, were to pay tithes.
— from Europe in the Sixteenth Century, 1494-1598, Fifth Edition Period 4 (of 8), Periods of European History by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Johnson

Gerhardt and Laurent generalised these relations, showing that this distinction extends over many reactions (for instance, to the faculty of bibasic acids of forming acid salts with alkalis, KHO or NaHO, or with alcohols, RHO, &c.); but now, since a definite conception as to atoms and molecules has been arrived at, the basicity of an acid is determined by the number of hydrogen atoms, contained in a molecule of the acid, which can be exchanged for metals.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

The boats had, meanwhile, been got forward, and into these the sailors sprang, with an alacrity that could scarcely have been expected from men who had passed not only the preceding night, but many before it, in utter sleeplessness and despair.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 3 by Major (John) Richardson

I expressed my gratitude, and asked to be excused for my foolish weakness.
— from My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt

I carried myself in this affair more wisely than might have been expected from my youth; for as soon as I heard that my rival was supported by the Cardinal, who did him the honour to own him for his kinsman, I sent the Cardinal word, by M. de Raconis, Bishop of Lavaur, that I desisted from my pretension, out of the respect I owed his Eminence, as soon as I heard that he concerned himself in the affair.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

In the folk tales we are intrigued by the past,—by the sense that these embodiments of human experience, having survived the ages, should be exempt from modern analysis.
— from Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds by Lucy Sprague Mitchell

The received and self-contradictory view is exceedingly simple and intelligible in its statement; it is well adapted, not merely for all the commoner purposes of life, but even for most scientific purposes.
— from Practical Essays by Alexander Bain

“They don’t want to go and defend their country (patrie), the poltroons,” sneered the officer who had come out with me; but conscription is as stern as in France, so that hundreds were being trained for a month or more 559 and shipped to Europe by each French Mail.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

These notes the compiler had some hesitation in inserting, from a feeling that many of them were mere literal explanations or illustrations, conveying generally but a very poor idea of the deeper meaning which the proverbs themselves are capable of yielding; and also in deference to opinions which have been expressed as to the propriety of [xi] adding notes to a collection of proverbs at all, as every reader of intelligence is competent to put an individual construction upon each, suited to circumstances; while the very wide inferences and applications which can be extracted from many of them, render the adapting of a brief and satisfactory note, in many cases, an impossibility.
— from The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop