Good angels, therefore, cannot mediate between miserable mortals and blessed immortals, for they themselves also are both blessed and immortal; but evil angels can mediate, because they are immortal like the one party, miserable like the other.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

But tell me his name, deary!' cried Mrs Boffin. 'Rokesmith.' 'No, it ain't!' cried Mrs Boffin, clapping her hands, and shaking her head.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

To satisfy me, those characters must be united.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

This famous University still had a great repute as a training school in law, for which profession he was intended; but the reason why he did not receive the even then far more usual completion of a public school education by a sojourn at Oxford or Cambridge may be suspected to be different.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

A similar change might be traced in the commonly recognised duty of children to parents.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

There never has been a great and distinguished Commander of contracted mind, but very numerous are the instances of men who, after serving with the greatest distinction in inferior positions, remained below mediocrity in the highest, from insufficiency of intellectual capacity.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Your letter of sympathy and comfort may be read after the first crushing grief is over, and appreciated then, but words of comfort are but little heeded when the first agony of a life-long separation is felt in all the force of its first hours.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

“I was just on my way over to invite you to help me celebrate my birthday on Saturday,” said Anne.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Bachelerie , sb. state of bachelor, CM, MD; bachelrye , company of young men, C2.—OF. bachelerie .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The present history and explanations of the Calendar may be recommended, as material, to your Professor Loomis.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various

Too stupidly honest to keep the news to himself, Corporal Max blurted out the information that the advance upon Paris had been temporarily abandoned.
— from The Dispatch-Riders: The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Separated by half the world from the source of their supplies, in charge of a body of criminals of the most dangerous type, Arthur Phillip and his officers had no light task to perform, and every credit must be given to the little band of pilgrims who, beset by danger from within and without, brought the colony through its infancy without any tragedy happening.
— from The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc

What have I gained, he said, in prison pent, If I but change my bonds for banishment?
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11 by John Dryden

He feared that suddenly a loud snore would interrupt the music, a music incomprehensible to him, and which, consequently, must be magnificent.
— from The Blood of the Arena by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Request of the committees, or select-men of the different towns, that they will be very punctual in reporting to the commanding officer at this post whatever may in any respect relate to the movements of the army, as both their safety and the welfare of the country may be promoted by their diligence in this particular.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

[Pg 236] People do not confess these things, but the socio-psychologist must remember that when a man quietly picks up a flower pot and hurls it through the window, the original cause may be found in the behavior of the departmental manager six hours before.
— from The Intelligence of Woman by Walter Lionel George

"They certainly must be trying to sink us," agreed Captain Weston.
— from Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat; Or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure by Victor Appleton

Even this modicum of protection, however, can establish a certain moral bond between ruler and subject; an intelligent government and an intelligent fealty become conceivable.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Traction engines carrying hoops twenty feet in height, or at any rate as high as may be found compatible with stability when referred to the available width on the road, will be capable of transporting goods at a cost much below that of horse traction.
— from Twentieth Century Inventions: A Forecast by George Sutherland