If her father were dead, nothing could be easier, for then she should share and cheer the happiest home that brother Ned and I could have, as if she were our child or sister.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

She came back, even for her measure of possible pangs and aches in him, to her old sense that he was naturally plated and steeled, armed essentially for aggression.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

But certain original forces will always remain over; there will always remain as an insoluble residuum a content of phenomena which cannot be referred to their form, and thus cannot be explained from something else in accordance with the principle of sufficient reason.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Asmodeus—that diabolical personage, who would have been created by every fertile imagination if Le Sage had not acquired the priority in his great masterpiece—would have enjoyed a singular spectacle, if he had lifted up the roof of the little house in the Rue Saint-Germain-des-Prés, while Debray was casting up his figures.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I say this in Answer to what Sir Roger is pleased to say, That little that is truly noble can be expected from one who is ever poring on his Cashbook, or ballancing his Accounts.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

He must write his own sermons; and the time that remains will not be too much for his parish duties, and the care and improvement of his dwelling, which he cannot be excused from making as comfortable as possible.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The chief coffee belt extends from the Quanza River northward to the Kongo at an altitude of 1,500 to 2,500 feet.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Its first gate was seventy cubits high, and twenty-five cubits broad; but this gate had no doors; for it represented the universal visibility of heaven, and that it cannot be excluded from any place.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

But [3681] compare both estates, for natural parts they are not unlike; and a beggar's child, as [3682] Cardan well observes, is no whit inferior to a prince's, most part better; and for those accidents of fortune, it will easily appear there is no such odds, no such extraordinary happiness in the one, or misery in the other.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Pure cream cannot be extracted from chalk and water,—though it may look like milk,—because the deficiency of the necessary elements forbids it; no more can fortunes be made in this part of Mexico, because they are not here to be made, as every condition forbids their accumulation.
— from A Journey in Southeastern Mexico by Henry Howard Harper

Out of the hopeful,—the rising, not the risen,—the aspiring, not the satisfied,—must a still larger class be everywhere formed.
— from Society in America, Volume 1 (of 2) by Harriet Martineau

Absolute power, as represented by a monarch, became narrowed down, in the lapse of centuries, by external forces working out their own independence, thus checking and limiting this absolutism.
— from The Influence of the Organ in History Inaugural Lecture of the Department of the Organ in the College of Music of Boston University by Dudley Buck

But in his face gleamed [Pg 256] an intelligence far beyond what could be expected from one in his humble attire; and as Ænone watched him, a suspicion crossed her that the poor, beggarly dress and the quiet, yielding mien were assumed to baffle observation.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

The interior and exterior of these great halls are carved with a beautifully executed geometrical design—the Greek pattern enclosed in a quadrilateral, the blocks upon which they are cut being exactly fitted and adjusted in their places with scarcely visible joints.
— from Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by C. Reginald (Charles Reginald) Enock

Among his works may be mentioned: Nuestra América , Ensayo de Psicología Individual y Social , La Novela de la Sangre , La Poesía Popular Argentina , and Nuestra Patria , an anthology for use in the Argentine schools, containing, besides extracts from other Argentine authors, many episodes written by Bunge himself.
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

What they taught can be established fairly well on the basis of Paul's answer to them.
— from A Brief Bible History: A Survey of the Old and New Testaments by James Oscar Boyd

This is not mere fancy: the whole sequence of events can be easily followed on a glass slide kept at body temperature and examined with a microscope.
— from The Pros and Cons of Vivisection by Charles Richet

Madame Pseldonimov, a woman of courage and greatness of soul, undressed him with her own hands, took off all his things, looked after him as if he were her own son, and spent the whole night carrying basins, etc., from the bedroom across the passage and bringing them back again empty.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky