It might be thought that Milady, timid as women are in general, would have interposed in this commencement of mutual provocations in order to prevent the quarrel from going too far; but on the contrary, she threw herself back in her carriage, and called out coolly to the coachman, “Go on--home!”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The curse of modern philosophy is only that it has not drawn its inspiration from science; as the misfortune of science is that it has not yet saturated the mind of philosophers and recast the moral world.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Revolutions in state will also arise from a disproportionate increase; for as the body consists of many parts, it ought to increase proportion-ably to preserve its symmetry, which would otherwise be destroyed; as if the foot was to be four cubits long, and
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

" The view here expressed, that relation to an object is an ultimate irreducible characteristic of mental phenomena, is one which I shall be concerned to combat.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Besides, the actual condition of many persons is one of changing stability, both in respect of the body and the mind, and this may depend upon causes which operate from either within or without .
— from Insanity: Its Causes and Prevention by Henry Putnam Stearns

According to the request expressed in your resolution of the eighteenth instant, I now transmit a copy of my proclamation interdicting our harbors and waters to British armed vessels, and forbidding intercourse with them, referred to in my message of the twenty-seventh of October last.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

I climbed slowly but alertly—and much to the alarm of a couple of monkeys perched in one of its topmost branches.
— from The Gland Stealers by Bertram Gayton

Mix four well-beaten eggs with three cups of milk; pour it over the bread and cheese.
— from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Hugo Ziemann

She has quite lost her energy, and the idea of a place like Brighton, or even the chance of meeting people, is odious to her.
— from Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

They then retired, leaving me alone with the patient, as I had previously requested them; for it has always been my policy to work myself as much as possible into the confidence of my patients, in order to obtain more minute particulars of their case which otherwise they might be reserved upon.
— from Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume I by M. Y. Halidom

I hope and urge their not doing it, and the establishment of a government on the spot capable of meeting promptly its own emergencies.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 4 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

It was the beginning of the monsoon, and we went bowling down towards Port Darwin, a crowd of Malay proas in our wake.
— from Mrs. Falchion, Complete by Gilbert Parker

"I hope not; but some things of late have shaken, I confess, what little faith I had in you; this confiscation of my property is one of them."
— from Sea and Shore A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" by Catherine A. (Catherine Ann) Warfield