He had one of those natures which could better and more clearly conceive of religious things from its own perceptions and instincts, than many a matter-of-fact and practical Christian.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

I had been so confident of regaining the treaty at once that I had not dared to think of what would be the consequence if I failed to do so.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The same pope also wrote to King Edwin's consort, Ethelberg, to this effect: THE COPY OF THE LETTER OF THE MOST BLESSED AND APOSTOLIC BONIFACE, POPE OF THE CITY OF ROME, TO ETHELBERG, KING EDWIN'S QUEEN.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Hence it is, for example, a principle of moral politics that a people should unite into a state according to the only valid concepts of right, the ideas of freedom and equality; and this principle is not based on expediency, but upon duty.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

To my great embarrassment she introduced me to him with malicious delight as the composer of Rienzi, the man whose acquaintance he now wished to make after having previously shown him the door in his glorious Paris.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

The little scallops must be carried on round the corner point, as they were on the 3rd, 4th and 5th trebles of the other points.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

The attention of either can only reach to general principles; local details, as already observed, must be referred to those who are to execute the plan.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

For the present, I could only resent the insult by pressing my foot upon his toes, deferring further vengeance till we got out of church.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

One could hear the whistling of bullets, the rattle of locks, the clink of ramrods; the whole line seemed to be a moving reptile, which moved a thousand glittering legs at the same time.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

In the seventh story of the first book of the Pańćatantram , the old crane, on the other hand, terrifies the crab and the fishes by threatening them with a visitation of the gods in the chariot of Rohinî, the red wife of the Lunus, that is, in the constellation of the Wain or the Bulls (the fourth lunation of the moon), in consequence of which the rain will cease to fall, the pond will be dried up, and the crabs and fishes will die; the fishes allow themselves to be deceived by the crane, who eats them on the way; but the crab, on the contrary, when it has got half way, perceives the deceit of the crane, kills it, and returns back again.
— from Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2) by Angelo De Gubernatis

But why this excess of deferential kindness, or what equivalent can they imagine us capable of rendering them for it?
— from Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville

The Conscience of Roger Trehern.
— from Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor

He was father to that excellent man, John Colclough, who was killed at Wexford, and to the present Cæsar Colclough, whose fall might have afforded rather less cause of regret than his brother’s.
— from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Barrington, Jonah, Sir

The latter had attributed invincibility to their allies, and to find them defeated so utterly at the first encounter paralyzed the insurrection for the moment; and, if the Turkish commander had moved energetically on Askyfó, it is not probable that any serious defence would have been made, and, as there was then no other centre of resistance, the taking of Askyfó would have left the movement without any power of forming another nucleus of moral force.
— from The Cretan Insurrection of 1866-7-8 by William James Stillman

I asked her if it was not her crown of roses that she had just broken thus.
— from The Confession of a Child of the Century by Alfred de Musset

But many workmen own their own tools; masons have a boxful of chisels, mallets, rules, &c.; carpenters often require twenty or thirty pounds' worth of planes and other implements; a pianoforte maker sometimes owns seventy pounds' worth of tools; even gardeners re [Pg 50] quire spades, rakes, a barrow, scythe, or perhaps a mowing machine and a roller.
— from Political economy by William Stanley Jevons

This time, being less surprised, he could more aptly consider the probable causes of such a circumstance, and easily arrived at the conclusion that there must be in the wicker chair osiers responsive to certain notes of the violin, as panes of glass in church windows are observed to vibrate in sympathy with certain tones of the organ.
— from The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner

During the first week in June, General Carrington determined to send out three patrols simultaneously with the object of thoroughly clearing the country of rebels to the west, north, and north-east of Bulawayo, before making an attack with the combined forces on the impis of Babian, Umlugulu, and Sikombo, who, it was known, had taken up strong positions in the Matopo Hills, from which they could only be driven with great difficulty and at the expense of a heavy loss of life on the side of the attacking party.
— from Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia Being a Narrative of Events in Matabeleland Both Before and During the Recent Native Insurrection Up to the Date of the Disbandment of the Bulawayo Field Force by Frederick Courteney Selous