There are charming drives all about, and by courtesy of friends we had opportunity to enjoy them.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

She must consider, determine and act for herself.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which have all this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The least part of all these ought not to be disturbed by the legislator; but he should assign to the several districts some God, or demi-god, or hero, and, in the distribution of the soil, should give to these first their chosen domain and all things fitting, that the inhabitants of the several districts may meet at fixed times, and that they may readily supply their various wants, and entertain one another with sacrifices, and become friends and acquaintances; for there is no greater good in a state than that the citizens should be known to one another.
— from Laws by Plato

The two young ladies came down, and after we had breakfast I asked the mother why they were unpacking their trunks so short a time before starting.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Once in three or four months he would get a little intoxicated, but as a general thing he was a wary and cautious drinker although always ready to tamper a little with the enemy.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

The inguino-femoral region, as being the seat of hernial protrusions, may in this stage of the dissection be conveniently described as a space formed of two triangles--the one inguinal, the other femoral, placed base to base.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

In another moment he was cut down, and a great body of water and steam shot high in the air.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

With what results may now be very clearly perceived, since it has been shown by many examples, how the errors of the greatest philosophers have their origin in a false explanation of certain human actions and feelings; how upon the foundation of an erroneous analysis (for example, of the so called disinterested actions), a false ethic is reared, to support which religion and like mythological monstrosities are called in, until finally the shades of these troubled spirits collapse in physics and in the comprehensive world point of view.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

She believed steadily in the Sacred Heart as the most generally useful of all Catholic devotions and approved of the sacraments.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

'Well,' answered Waring, looking down into her blue eyes as they stood together at the little window, 'it was a watery residence like this, and if Japheth,—he was always my favorite of the three—had had you there, my opinion is that he would never have come down at all, but would have resided permanently on Ararat.'
— from Castle Nowhere by Constance Fenimore Woolson

I heard you was coming ashore for the captain, and as you won't see him for the next couple of hours, I thought I'd come down and ask you to come up and have a couple of nips.
— from The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 by Louis Becke

Thus it was that Charlie died; and a marble tablet in Semlyn Church, ornamented with the most delicate and exquisite sculpture, records his tragic fate, and stands as a monument of his parents’ tender love.
— from St. Winifred's; or, The World of School by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

She was hungry—her fears were somewhat allayed, and though rather disgusted at such coarse diet, ate and drank with some relish.
— from Rancho Del Muerto, and Other Stories of Adventure by Various Authors, from "Outing" by Charles King

ad often done on lesser occasions, she packed up a bundle of articles, crept down again, and went out of the house.
— from The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid by Thomas Hardy

There are a clerk, a Chinese interpreter, who speaks six Chinese dialects, and a Malay interpreter, who puts the Chinese interpreter's words into English.
— from The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird