By a kingdom I understand the union of different rational beings in a system by common laws.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

She felt that she ought always to be in a state of slinking disgrace, if she fulfilled what was expected of her.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Our maid Susan is very ill, and so the whole trouble of the house lies upon our maid Mary, who do it very contentedly and mighty well, but I am sorry she is forced to it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Finally the Birds, Insects, and smaller animals came together for the same purpose, and the Grubworm was chief of the council.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

“I don’t know whether the Pope esteems me, but I am sure he knows I don’t esteem him.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Upon their delivering the message from Alcibiades, telling them to hold out and to show a firm front to the enemy, and saying that he had great hopes of reconciling them with the army and of overcoming the Peloponnesians, the majority of the members of the oligarchy, who were already discontented and only too much inclined to be quit of the business in any safe way that they could, were at once greatly strengthened in their resolve.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The great State of New York, however, has made a slight difference between the two privileges, but in a spirit quite contrary to that of the laws of France; for in the State of New York there are fewer persons eligible as jurymen than there are electors.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

“I confess you would be right, but I am sure love would make you happy.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

CHAPTER XIII—A SOFT BREEZE IN A SULTRY PLACE 'That doubt and trouble, fear and pain, And anguish, all, are shadows vain, That death itself shall not remain; That weary deserts we may tread, A dreary labyrinth may thread, Thro' dark ways underground be led;
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

If you manage to avoid this pitfall, and to reach the top of the mountain, you will find there the Talking Bird in a splendid cage, and you can ask of him where you are to seek the Singing Tree and the Golden Water.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

It is a dangerous practice to jam a helm hard over when a boat is making a stern board in a seaway, as you are liable to damage the rudder or drive her counter under.
— from Hints to Young Yacht Skippers by Thomas Fleming Day

She broke into a sudden storm of sobs and left the room, to stick her head in the door a moment after.
— from The Window at the White Cat by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Marm wasn't afraid of him, but I am, so I never whisper the word
— from Mary Louise in the Country by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The exact position then was this: Their own right struck down to the south-east of Paris, through Château Thierry to La Ferté-sous-Jouarre and beyond; and another strong column forced the French to evacuate Rheims and fall back in a south-westerly direction.
— from The Soul of the War by Philip Gibbs

"You were destined for something better, but I am scheming how to do it."
— from Harum Scarum's Fortune by Esmè Stuart

Among the summer residents are the American pipit, the white-crowned sparrow, and the gray-headed junco, the latter occasionally raising two broods in a summer.
— from The Rocky Mountain Wonderland by Enos A. Mills

There are lists of titles which have a large sound, and prayers to the Gods for all good things, on the tombs and monuments of kings and magnates long before the time of Ke'gemni; but those are not books in any sense of that word.
— from The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni The Oldest Books in the World by Ptahhotep

Doris could catch little sentences here and there; but they seemed to be in a strange tongue, and she did not understand.
— from Dreamland by Julie M. Lippmann