After this decisive victory, and last dreadful catastrophe, Jacobinism, considered as a pure and unmixed party, can scarce be said to have again raised its head in France, although its leaven has gone to qualify and characterize, in some degree, more than one of the different parties which have succeeded them.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

‘No: on the contrary, I shall do my utmost to conceal it from her.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

That, I replied, is a sorry consolation; I shall destroy my friends as well as myself.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

'Them rabble may be all about; I don't think the cut is so deep, ma'am, as it looks.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

That my papa was too partial, I well know; but that he was an observer of character in some degree, my duty and my reason equally forbid me to doubt.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I could not help smiling at the description of my uncle's ladder, by which he proposed to climb to the attention of the board of admiralty; and, though I knew the world too well to confide in such dependence myself, I would not discourage him with doubts, but asked if he had no friend in London, who would advance a small sum of money to enable him to appear as he ought, and make a small present to the under secretary, who might possibly dispatch his business the sooner on that account.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Five cents is still due me.”
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

6. Caesar ipse scûtum dê manibus mîlitis êripuit et in ipsam aciem properâvit.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

6. Caesar ipse scūtum dē manibus mīlitis ēripuit et in ipsam aciem properāvit.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

So that for better or for worse, we two, for the time, were wedded; and should poor Queequeg sink to rise no more, then both usage and honor demanded, that instead of cutting the cord, it should drag me down in his wake.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The slip of a colleen fresh from Kerry had grown old with her mistress, until the casual bond between mistress and servant had changed into something deeper; more in keeping with a better-mannered age than ours.
— from The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Here this memoir, begun in such storm and stress, within and without, continued in such different moods and for such varied motives, ends with the mantle of peace upon us, with the song of birds in our ears.
— from The Pride of Jennico: Being a Memoir of Captain Basil Jennico by Egerton Castle

If, now in my quiet days, I had youthful faculties at my command, I should devote myself to Greek, in spite of all the difficulties I know.
— from Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson

for accepting my assistance?” said the page,—“for accepting my assistance, who am to be your confederate in some deep matter of import?
— from The Abbot by Walter Scott

We present the table, slightly altered in arrangement, and corrected in some details :— MATTHEW.
— from Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Besant

When some whose spirits are not well seasoned, speak to circumstances which they may not have sufficiently considered, it sometimes does more harm than they may at first apprehend.
— from Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by John Yeardley

In clearing myself of these heavy charges, I shall divide my evidence into two parts—negative and positive.
— from The proceedings of the Canadian Eclipse Party, 1869 by E. D. (Edward David) Ashe

I see men without any ornaments and with their hair cut short; and women who, with an edifying renunciation of vanity, go along the street without wigs and without patches on their faces, with their hair simply knotted up; I [Pg 280] see countesses dressed in inexpensive costumes, in simple, dark, monastic dresses, almost like those of the poor.
— from Spontaneous Activity in Education by Maria Montessori

The embargo had now continued upwards of three months, and the salutary check which Congress imagined it would have upon the conduct of the belligerent powers was extremely doubtful, while the ruination of the commerce of the United States appeared certain if such destructive measures were persisted in.
— from A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume II. by Stephen M. Ostrander