“Well,” he went on, “there's nobody in the world I would have wished to see enter into this wealth before you, Lucetta, and nobody, I am sure, who will become it more.”
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Contemptible as a regard founded only on compassion must make them both in my eyes, I felt by no means assured that such might not be the consequence.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

But it may be pleaded for Jervas that a good deal of this rigidity is due to his abhorrence of the light, flippant, jocose style of his predecessors.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

If natural melancholy abound in the body, which is cold and dry, so that it be more [1063] than the body is well able to bear, it must needs be distempered,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Only a flower by their plates; but it meant much to them: for, in these lives of ours, tender little acts do more to bind hearts together than great, deeds or heroic words; since the first are like the dear daily bread that none can live without; the latter but occasional feasts, beautiful and memorable, but not possible to all.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Her eyebrows are crescent moons, and knit under her smiles; she speaks, and yet she seems no word to utter; her lotus-like feet with ease pursue their course; she stops, and yet she seems still to be in motion; the charms of her figure all vie with ice in purity, and in splendour with precious gems; Lovely is her brilliant attire, so full of grandeur and refined grace.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

[6] We give, from now on, games and notes, so that the student may familiarise himself with the many and varied considerations that constantly are borne in mind by the Chess Master.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

“It was beautiful in much—my childhood,” she said in a low voice, dropping her eyes before his ardent gaze, “as my father said.
— from The Money Master, Complete by Gilbert Parker

The back is marked with reddish-brown spots on an olive-green ground.
— from Birds and Nature Vol. 11 No. 5 [May 1902] Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

“1 my will is that out of my whole estate my funerall charges be taken out & my bod[y] to bee buried in Decent manor and if I Die att Duxburrow my body to bee layed as neare as Conveniently may bee to my two Daughters Lora Standish my daughter and Mary Standish my Daughterinlaw “2 my will is that out of the remaining prte of my whole estate that all my Jus[t] and lawfull Debts which I now owe or att the Day of my Death may owe bee paied “3 out of what remaines according to the order of this Gov r ment: my will is that my Dear and loveing wife Barbara Standish shall have the third prte “4 I have given to my son Josias Standish upon his marriage one young horse five sheep and two heiffers which I must upon that contract of marriage make forty pounds yett not knowing whether the estate will bear it att p r sent; my will is that the resedue remaine in the whole stocke that every one of my four sons viz {428} Allexander Standish Myles Standish Josias Standish and Charles Standish may have forty pounds appeec; if not that they may have proportionable to y e remaining prte bee it more or lesse “5 my will is that my eldest son Allexander shall have a Doubble share in land “6 my will is that soe long as they live single that the whole bee in prtenership betwix[t] them “7 I Doe ordaine and make my Dearly beloved wife Barbara Standish Allexander Standish Myles Standish and Josias Standish Joynt Exequitors of this my last will and Testament “8 I Doe by this will make and appoint my loveing frinds
— from Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills by Virgil M. (Virgil McClure) Harris

It was a foolhardy undertaking, to my mind; but I must do.
— from The Rover's Secret: A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba by Harry Collingwood

With regard to the status of Prisoners of War in Switzerland, it should be borne in mind {viii} that the Interned were under the guardianship of the Swiss Government, who undertook all responsibility for their care, discipline, and medical treatment.
— from The British Interned in Switzerland by Henry Philip Picot

"Not necessary," I replied, putting it back in my pocket and calmly eying him, although my heart began to beat fast.
— from Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by George Wharton Edwards

“Norah Burton is my wife.
— from This House to Let by William Le Queux