I communicated my design to him during one of our walks together.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

At least any one, who would assert it to be intuitively certain, must deny these to be the only infallible relations, and must find some other relation of that kind to be implyed in it; which it will then be time enough to examine.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

How often, in your high insular presence, have I taken a pleasure in trampling upon, what you are pleased to call, my dignity; tearing it, scattering it to the winds, in those mad transports you witness with such hauteur, and which I know you think very like the ravings of a third-rate London actor."
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

The Danes had christened me Doctor Teology, and dressed as I was all in black, with large shoes and black worsted stockings, I might certainly have passed very well for a Methodist missionary.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Be there one to commit me duly to earth, rescued or ransomed from the battlefield: or, if fortune deny that, to pay me far away the rites of funeral and the grace of a tomb.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The Sea otter when fully grown is as large as the common mastif dog, the eail and Eyes are remarkably Small, particularly the former which is not an inch in length thick fleshey and pointed, Covered with short hair.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

no ambition to commend my deeds, The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the dooer; But they persisted deaf, and would not seem To count them things worth notice, till at length 250 Thir Lords the Philistines with gather'd powers Enterd Judea seeking mee, who then Safe to the rock of Etham was retir'd, Not flying, but fore-casting in what place To set upon them, what advantag'd best; Mean while the men of Judah to prevent The harrass of thir Land, beset me round; I willingly on some conditions came Into thir hands, and they as gladly yield me To the uncircumcis'd a welcom prey, 260 Bound with two cords; but cords to me were threds Toucht with the flame: on thir whole Host I flew Unarm'd, and with a trivial weapon fell'd Thir choicest youth; they only liv'd who fled. Had Judah that day join'd, or one whole Tribe, They had by this possess'd the Towers of Gath, And lorded over them whom now they serve; But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by thir vices brought to servitude, Then to love Bondage more then Liberty, 270 Bondage with ease then strenuous liberty; And to despise, or envy, or suspect Whom God hath of his special favour rais'd As thir Deliverer; if he aught begin, How frequent to desert him, and at last To heap ingratitude on worthiest deeds?
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Provost, my brother Angelo will not be alter'd: Claudio must die to-morrow.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

RECALL What call may draw thee back again, Lost dove, what art, what charm may please?
— from The Divine Vision, and Other Poems by George William Russell

Women are generally more aristocratic than men, and cling more decidedly to their class, and I think my aunts showed better taste in liking refined society than my father did in lowering himself to associate with men of an inferior stamp in rank, in manners, and in habits.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton

"What!" cried Bertha, "am I to conduct myself disgracefully that people may despise me and pity you,--wolf in sheep's clothing that you are?
— from Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern

"Well, I fancy that Mrs. Jersey caught Margery down the stairs, and took her into her own room to rebuke her quietly, so that the rest of the house might not hear.
— from The Yellow Holly by Fergus Hume

I cut myself down to twenty suits last year.
— from Stories by American Authors, Volume 3 by Various

and Henry V., it is said, made use of the silver-mines of Combe Martin during their wars with France.
— from Motor Tours in the West Country by Stawell, Rodolph, Mrs.

"The coming summer's campaign must decide the issue of the war—though it may not see the end of it."
— from Towards the Goal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.