In pursuance of this policy the Creek chiefs were entertained by the Tammany society, all the members being in full Indian dress, at which the visitors were much delighted and responded with an Indian dance, while McGillivray was induced to resign his commission as colonel in the Spanish service for a commission of higher grade in the service of the United States.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

To his belief in Fate is due the frequent quoting of oracles and their fulfilment, the frequent references to things foreordained by Providence.
— from An Account of Egypt by Herodotus

I do not affirm that what you see beyond is futile, I do not advise you to stop, I do not say leadings you thought great are not great, But I say that none lead to greater than these lead to.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

"But I fear I do not—" The sudden vision of his passion for herself as a factor in this result so distressed her that, beginning with one slow tear, and then following with another, she wept outright.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

But if from it ... depart, 1635-54 , Cy , P:
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

And voting has not been introduced among us and cannot be introduced, for it does not express the will of the people; but there are other ways of reaching that.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Moreover, scammony, according to the Asclepiadean argument, not only fails to evacuate 110 the bile from the bodies of jaundiced subjects, but actually turns the useful blood into bile, and dissolves the body; in fact it does all manner of evil and increases the disease.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

But I found it difficult to get to work upon my abstract investigations.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Perhaps, however, this similitude of mine may in some respect be incorrect; for I do not altogether admit that he who considers things in their reasons considers them in their images, more than he does who views them in their effects.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

“My first view of it shall be in front,” I determined, “where its bold battlements will strike the eye nobly at once, and where I can single out my master’s very window: perhaps he will be standing at it—he rises early: perhaps he is now walking in the orchard, or on the pavement in front.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

All that Frank Vance could make by painting hand-screens and fans and album-scraps, he sent, I believe, to the poor poet; but I fear it did not suffice.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Volume 07 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

“Many of the Roman Catholic persuasion, especially the monks, when they come into the spiritual world, inquire for the saints, particularly the saint of their order; but they do not find them, at which they wonder; but afterwards they are instructed that they are mixed together, either with those who are in heaven, or with those who are in the earth below; and that, in either case, they know nothing of the worship and invocation of themselves, and that those who do know, and wish to be invoked, fall into deliriums, and talk foolishly.
— from The Book of Religions Comprising the Views, Creeds, Sentiments, or Opinions, of All the Principal Religious Sects in the World, Particularly of All Christian Denominations in Europe and America, to Which are Added Church and Missionary Statistics, Together With Biographical Sketches by John Hayward

Courtesy forbids my refusal; but I find it detestably bitter.
— from Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti

This made me so often the victor; no qualms in my bosom I feel; I don't fear a boa constrictor—my heart is an engine of steel.
— from Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason

There was so much apparent truth in the old man's narrative, that I determined to be governed by it; for I did not entertain the least doubt, if I could get into the other river, that I should reach the ocean.
— from Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. Vol. II by Alexander Mackenzie

I meant to state quite simply what has occurred since I last wrote; but I find it difficult to concentrate my attention.
— from Adrian Savage: A Novel by Lucas Malet

These similes are poor ones, I'm afraid, but I find it difficult to put my thoughts exactly into words.
— from Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

The towers at Djûr and at Hatra may have been sacrificial altars, and Strabo bears witness to the fact that the Persians sacrificed in a high place; but I find it difficult to believe that they can have been intended for an inextinguished fire.
— from Palace and Mosque at Ukhaidir: A Study in Early Mohammadan Architecture by Gertrude Lowthian Bell