I tramped the streets through a cold rain: chance, if I can call it chance, made me pass under her windows.
— from On Love by Stendhal

So long as external conditions remain constant it is obvious that the greater organisation a being possesses the greater strength he will have.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

'Good lack,' repeated Bruno, 'can it be?' 'Certes,' replied Calandrino, 'it is so, more by token that I am undone and know not how I shall return home.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

The central region contains in its interior the commissural portion, forming a punctiform, rounded mass in each ganglion.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

The Bible contradicts morality, contradicts reason, contradicts itself, innumerable times; and yet it is the Word of God, eternal truth, and “truth cannot contradict itself.”
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach

Certainly Roman Catholic in its origin, whoever was its author, it is a Christian hymn qualified in every way to be sung by the universal church.
— from The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Hezekiah Butterworth

"She looks like a young princess," he said to himself: and his manner almost involuntarily changed—something of chivalrous respect came into it; and Doris, so marvelously quick, detected the change.
— from A Fair Mystery: The Story of a Coquette by Charlotte M. Brame

them to construct royal cells; if it fails before they are ready, and the royal brood is destroyed, it is because the existence of the swarm would be precarious, and it is best not to issue."
— from Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by M. (Moses) Quinby

Ð To charge; blame; censure; reproach; criminate; indict; impeach; arraign.
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

In his "Outlines of Astronomy," Sir John Herschel, after repeating this description in other words, goes on to remark that— "This combination of characters, rightly considered, is in a high degree instructive, affording an insight into the probable comparative distance of stars and nebulæ , and the real brightness of individual stars as compared with one another.
— from Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions by Herbert Spencer

“Yes, certain,” replied Colorat; “it is even said that it was he who killed the traveller by the mail-coach in 1812; but the courier and the postilion, the only witnesses who could have identified him, were dead before he was tried.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac