Doubtless, the British Admiral seemed to himself to be acting under a rigid sense of justice; but to all other persons it was obvious that he was influenced by an infatuated attachment—a baneful passion, which destroyed his domestic happiness, and now, in a second instance, stained ineffaceably his public character.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

This was the cause of my separation from my dear husband, and now, I am convinced, it will be the means of our reunion." As soon as it was light next day the Princess Badoura sent for the captain, and made further inquiries about the merchant who owned the olive jars she had bought.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

”—[“A mouse in a pitch barrel.”]—It thinks it discovers at a great distance, I know not what glimpses of light and imaginary truth: but whilst running to it, so many difficulties, hindrances, and new inquisitions cross it, that it loses its way, and is made drunk with the motion: not much unlike AEsop’s dogs, that seeing something like a dead body floating in the sea, and not being able to approach it, set to work to drink the water and lay the passage dry, and so choked themselves.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I hoped she’d lose it; for my love Was grown so dainty, high, and nice, It prized no luxury above
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

" Then said Achilles in his great grief, "I would die here and now, in that I could not save my comrade.
— from The Iliad by Homer

“Doubtless” he remarks, “the British Admiral seemed to himself to be acting under a rigid sense of justice, but to all other persons it was obvious that he was influenced by an infatuated attachment—a baneful passion, which destroyed his domestic happiness, and now, in a second instance, stained ineffaceably his public character.”
— from The Boys' Nelson by Harold Wheeler

I come down here at night—" "I know.
— from Pandemic by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

Yet it was certain disagreeable happenings at Nuremberg itself which led him to write in 1530 his second booklet in favour of the schools.
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

“Better than having to pay to keep my wife and weans,” said the diver huskily; “and now I want to have a look at that young chap as dived and set free the line.”
— from Menhardoc by George Manville Fenn

Barney Dale had a nephew in Stavering, a carpenter by trade; this man secretly made an oak coffin, and conveyed it to Broome after nightfall.
— from The Heart of a Mystery by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

The parallel drains, however, are not invariably laid across the fall.
— from Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles by Henry F. (Henry Flagg) French

The deputies here are not in comfortable circumstances, and pressing need often make men indelicate; this is the way I explain the injustice which they tried to do me.
— from Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence, Vol. 2 by Elizabeth Sarah Kite