It would be useful also to consult an article which von Leonhardi gave the Globus , where numerous extracts from his correspondence with Strehlow will be found ( Ueber einige religiöse und totemistische Vorstellungen der Aranda und Loritja in Zentral Australien , in Globus , XCI, p. 285).
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

'Unhappy' might be meant to describe an unsuccessful lover, but it probably shows that the letter was written after his father's death.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Suddenly these manifestations they ceased, and the world grew dark before mine eyes, and I stood aghast at the burning thoughts which possessed, at the terrible temptations which beset me; for there came from some far, far distant and unknown land, into the gay court of the king I served, a maiden to whose beauty my whole recreant heart yielded at once—at whose footstool I bowed down without a struggle, in the most ardent, in the most abject worship of love.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The things about me and before me made me feel like a boy again—convinced me that I was a boy again, and that I had simply been dreaming an unusually long dream; but my reflections spoiled all that; for they forced me to say, 'I see fifty old houses down yonder, into each of which I could enter and find either a man or a woman who was a baby or unborn when I noticed those houses last, or a grandmother who was a plump young bride at that time.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

I may not change the faith of my fathers like a garment unsuited to the climate in which I seek to dwell, and unhappy, lady, I will not be.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Mrs. Wyvis Brand had developed an uncontrollable love for strong drink, as well as a temper that made her at times more like a mad woman than an ordinary human being; and when she one day disappeared from her husband's home, carrying his child with her, and announcing in a subsequent letter that she did not mean to return, it could hardly be wondered at if Wyvis drew a long breath of relief, and hoped that she never would.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

I feel it incumbent upon me not 312 to conceal what I think the best course to pursue, both on account of my age, the honour paid to me by the rest of the army at thy behest, and the boldness which I have without any hesitation displayed up to the present time in incurring dangers and undergoing labours.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

The divine afflatus usually lasted a week or two, and then she emerged from her 'vortex', hungry, sleepy, cross, or despondent.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

"If everybody minded their own business," the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, "the world would go round a deal faster than it does." An unusually large saucepan flew close by it, and very nearly carried it off "Which would not be an advantage," said Alice, who felt very glad to get an opportunity of showing off a little of her knowledge.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

[195] Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral Australien.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

In all the Amniota, there open at first into the common cloaca the alimentary canal dorsally, the allantois ventrally, and the Wolffian and Müllerian ducts and ureters laterally.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

You will have to wear a uniform and sleep on boards in a guard-house; you will have to be up early to drill, and up late mounting guard, in wind and rain and cold.
— from Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

These extra good dens are usually located on high grounds, at least not in swamps or very low land.
— from Steel Traps Describes the Various Makes and Tells How to Use Them, Also Chapters on Care of Pelts, Etc. by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding

Here Herr Scheffel's cheery wife opened the door, and upon learning the name, welcomed her visitor heartily, and ushered her up the narrow stairway.
— from Anne: A Novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson

Does he depend altogether upon literature, as too many writers do here?
— from Yesterdays with Authors by James Thomas Fields

Three incentives habitually carry men into distant and unknown lands—missionary zeal, desire for trade, and curiosity.
— from The American Nation: A History — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 by Edward Potts Cheyney

D' A UTEUIL, LEUR FILS, 1583.
— from The Churches of Paris, from Clovis to Charles X by Sophia Beale

It was full of conspirators, daring and unscrupulous, loyal to none save to Mary of Scotland, Philip of Spain, and the Pope of Rome, and untiring in their efforts to bring about a general rebellion.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) by John Lothrop Motley