I walked about the streets all that day, half out of my mind, and with a strong inclination to throw myself into the sea, so as to leave my poor girl free to make a better match.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

It was ignorance of law that for ages deprived humanity of our modern conveniences.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Fire, thus made, is said to be used at the sacred dairy (ti), the dairy houses of ordinary mands, and at the cremation of males.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

One should continue (of course with dignity) to develop, however old one may be.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

But coming to Petersburg he quarrelled with me, the day before yesterday, at our first meeting and I drove him out of my room—I have two witnesses to prove it.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

However, nothing could be sufficient for him against the force of Herod, who, as soon as he was recovered, took the other fortresses again, and drove him out of Masada in the posture of a supplicant; he also drove away Marion, the tyrant of the Tyrians, out of Galilee, when he had already possessed himself of three fortified places; but as to those Tyrians whom he had caught, he preserved them all alive; nay, some of them he gave presents to, and so sent them away, and thereby procured good-will to himself from the city, and hatred to the tyrant.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

The quick travellers came up with the slow, and courteous salutations were exchanged; and one of the new comers, who was, in fact, a canon of Toledo and master of the others who accompanied him, observing the regular order of the procession, the cart, the officers, Sancho, Rocinante, the curate and the barber, and above all Don Quixote caged and confined, could not help asking what was the meaning of carrying the man in that fashion; though, from the badges of the officers, he already concluded that he must be some desperate highwayman or other malefactor whose punishment fell within the jurisdiction of the Holy Brotherhood.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Under Goupil's leadership he became somewhat dissipated as a young man, and loved in turn Esther van Gobseck and Sophie Grignault—Florine—who, after declining his offer of marriage, became Madame Nathan.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Will you not come and drag him out of my hands?”
— from The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

How many dark corners in the long disused houses of our minds have been flo
— from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine

And merrily when that feast was done On the fire-lit green the dance begun, With squaws' shrill stave, and deeper hum Of old men beating the Indian drum.
— from Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

For years this view of his life-task alternated with his search for exact answers to the questions his soul asked about man's destiny hereafter; or, one might rather say, social questions and philosophical ones borrowed strength from each other to assail him till his heart throbbed and his brain whirled with the agony of the conflict.
— from Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott

" I believe we are in agreement that the humanities illuminate the values underlying important personal, social, and national questions raised in our society by its multiple links to and increasing dependence on technology, and by the diverse heritage of our many regions and ethnic groups.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Jimmy Carter

The world recedes: it disappears: Heaven opens on my eyes; my ears With sounds seraphic ring.
— from The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Hezekiah Butterworth

I lost the friendship of Mr. Fabian Rockharrt when I declined his offer of marriage.
— from For Woman's Love by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Not a glimpse did he obtain of Meg Merle, and he began to think her invisible, after the fashion of the nameless nymph in "Lamia."
— from The Gates of Dawn by Fergus Hume