They would recollect that the flame, (one must use appropriate expressions,) which they wished to light up, had been exhausted by lust, and that the sated appetite, losing all relish for pure and simple pleasures, could only be roused by licentious arts of variety.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

“Now, friend,” said Hawkeye, addressing David, “an exchange of garments will be a great convenience to you, inasmuch as you are but little accustomed to the make-shifts of the wilderness.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

However, seeing that it stayed motionless, they regained confidence little by little and tried to become more familiar with it.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Then said he, "Do you think that it follows, because the gods notice our actions and deal with us accordingly, that souls are either altogether imperishable, or for some time survive dissolution?" Then said I, "Not exactly so, my good sir, but is the deity so little and so attached to trifles, if we have nothing divine in ourselves, nothing resembling him, nothing lasting or sure, but that we all do fade as a leaf, as Homer 855 says, and die after a brief life, as to take the trouble—like women that tend and cultivate their gardens of Adonis 856 in pots—to create souls to flourish in a delicate body having no stability only for a day, and then to be annihilated at once 857 by any occasion?
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

It is in the Eastern States that the Anglo-Americans have been longest accustomed to the government of democracy, and that they have adopted the habits and conceived the notions most favorable to its maintenance.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

He gets forty-eight hours' start, and wins Arcola; in 1814 he deserved equal success, but bad luck and treachery turned the scale.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Before I have done you shall confess, between laughter and tears, that he is of the very essence of life, that you have known him all your days though you never recognised him till now, and that you would as soon go without Hamlet as miss him.'
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

And if this man be living at the time with some other women she should consider well before she acts.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

The Brahmin legends assert that this city is built on the site of the ancient Casi, which, like Mahomet's tomb, was once suspended between heaven and earth; though the Benares of to-day, which the Orientalists call the Athens of India, stands quite unpoetically on the solid earth, Passepartout caught glimpses of its brick houses and clay huts, giving an aspect of desolation to the place, as the train entered it.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

The tradition of its true interpretation had been lost, and the text itself, but by long study of ancient missals, Mr. Innes had penetrated the secret of the ancient notation, vague as the eyeballs of the blind, and in the absence of a choir that could read this strange alphabet of sound, he cherished a plan for an edition of these old chants, re-written by him into the ordinary notation of our day.
— from Evelyn Innes by George Moore

In a way, the rolling slopes, the broad lawns and the trees reminded her of The Savins.
— from Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book by Anna Chapin Ray

But, little as they trusted him, he was well fitted for the work that lay before him.
— from Stories of Later American History by Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk) Gordy

"It will be very easy to be loving and tender to such a lovely baby," said Patty.
— from A Fair Mystery: The Story of a Coquette by Charlotte M. Brame

As Ray glanced on beyond him, she caught sight of that which put the brick loaf, and their talk, instantly out of her mind.
— from The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

Some men, good diplomatists, carry this principle the length of objecting to being their wives' lovers, simply because they know they cannot always be lovers, and that the day they cease to be lovers they will be considered perfect criminals.
— from Her Royal Highness Woman by Max O'Rell

They stood hand in hand on the cool, marble-paved floor of the corridor, gazing silently at the stained and battered battle-flags behind the glass, and Wetherell seemed to be listening again to the appeal of a great President to a great Country in the time of her dire need—the soul calling on the body to fight for itself.
— from Coniston — Volume 02 by Winston Churchill

The boys looked at the twisted weapon, then at Sam Hickey.
— from The Battleship Boys at Sea; Or, Two Apprentices in Uncle Sam's Navy by Frank Gee Patchin

Some, bold, enthusiastic, indomitable, addressing themselves to the worst passions, will rouse them, as the storm raises the foam of the sea; but, like all tempests, these are as ephemeral as they are furious; to these terrible effervescences will succeed the sullen reversion of sadness and restlessness, which will obtain supremacy over the most miserable conditions.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 by Eugène Sue

It startled men who heard; and whereas Antichrist, by the very notion of his character, will counterfeit Christ, he will therefore be, so far, necessarily like him; and, if Antichrist is like Christ, then Christ, I suppose, must be like Antichrist; thus, there was, even at first starting, a felicitous plausibility about the very charge which went far towards securing belief, while it commanded attention.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various