"She shall wear this, if I have strength to make her," said I, folding it well round her muslin dress, covering carefully her neck and her arms. — from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
call himself nevertheless and
To be a soldier , to be a judge, to be a patriot; to defend one’s self; to be careful of one’s honour; to desire one’s own advantage; to be proud ... every act of everyday, every instinct, every valuation that shows itself in a deed , is now anti-Christian: what a monster of falsehood the modern man must be to call himself nevertheless, and without shame, a Christian!— — from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
companion heard nothing as
It was the dinner-hour at the farms, and the young woman and her companion heard nothing as they walked but the fall of their steps on the earth of the path, the words they spoke, and the sound of Emma’s dress rustling round her. — from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Collins had not arrived
I remained untill noon when I again reimbarked and set out concluding that as Colter and Collins had not arrived by that time that they had passed us after dark the night of the 3rd inst. — from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark
corrupting his nature and
If it is not so, and if man is by nature evil, he cannot cease to be evil without corrupting his nature, and goodness in him is a crime against nature. — from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
concealing his name and
He must remain in Moscow, concealing his name, and must meet Napoleon and kill him, and either perish or put an end to the misery of all Europe—which it seemed to him was solely due to Napoleon. — from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
conceal his name and
It was in disguise and in secret that his generosity flowed; and so studiously did he conceal his name, and hide even his features, during his brief visits to “the house of mourning,” that only one like myself, a close and minute investigator of whatever has once become an object of interest, could have traced his hand in the various works of happiness it had aided or created. — from The Disowned — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
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Could he not accomplish
Could he not accomplish more by declaring himself; could he not by one bold stroke lay bare the heart of the mystery? — from The Crevice by William J. Burns
councils have not always
The conversation among the friars during the hour when they meet together, is generally upon philosophical or theological subjects, and sometimes politics; but the young friar was no doubt still ignorant of the conversation which those who are emancipated from the restraints put upon youth, hold with each other; for Dominican councils have not always been held in their hall of recreation. — from Spain in 1830, vol. 2 by Henry D. (Henry David) Inglis
Mr. Crawley had no ambitious idea of any comfort which might accrue to him beyond that of an honourable return to his humble preferment at Hogglestock; but, nevertheless, he was in this case minded to do as the dean counselled him. — from The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
captain himself not at
Soon after I had shaken Temple's hand, I was going through the same ceremony with the captain himself, not at all changed in appearance, who blessed his heart for seeing me, cried out that a beard and mustachios made a foreign face of a young Englishman, and was full of the 'providential' circumstance of his having confided his case to Temple and his father. — from The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 8 by George Meredith
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