These romantic sorrows were not affected, though I am inclined to believe they did not absolutely centre in her, for I am persuaded (though I did not perceive it at that time) being deprived of amusement bore a considerable share in them.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I thank you for my share of the favour,” said Elizabeth; “but I do not particularly like your way of getting husbands.”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

At last I could resist her entreaties no longer, so I took her in my arms and forgave her; and we did not part till she had received undeniable proofs of the return of my affection.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

She did not pull her hand away, and laughed when I held her by the waist," he thought.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She received the King as if she had been expecting him, and he saw that she was very beautiful, but still she did not please him, and he could not look at her without secret horror.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Having a deficient portion of internal and proper warmth, minds of this class seek in the crowd circum fana for a warmth in common, which they do not possess singly.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When these are justified by the poet's genius, true critics do not presume to correct them.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

It seems as though the same sun as shines for all Petersburg people does not peep into those spots, but some other different new one, bespoken expressly for those nooks, and it throws a different light on everything.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For, since we 312 do not, properly speaking, observe the purposes in nature as designed, but only in our reflection upon its products think this concept as a guiding thread for our Judgement, they are not given to us through the Object.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

The gracefulness of his person, the gallant manner in which he introduced himself, and the brilliant things he said to the ladies, on having been so long deprived of the happiness he now enjoyed, very much attracted the admiration of the company; but Louisa in particular thought she had never seen any thing so perfectly agreeable: a sympathy of sentiment, more than accident, made him chuse her for his partner in a grand dance then leading up; and the distinction now paid her by him gave her a secret satisfaction, which she had never known before on such an occasion, tho' often singled out by persons in more eminent stations.
— from The Fortunate Foundlings Being the Genuine History of Colonel M——Rs, and His Sister, Madam Du P——Y, the Issue of the Hon. Ch——Es M——Rs, Son of the Late Duke of R—— L——D. Containing Many Wonderful Accidents That Befel Them in Their Travels, and Interspersed with the Characters and Adventures of Several Persons of Condition, In the Most Polite Courts of Europe. the Whole Calculated for the Entertainment and Improvement of the Youth of Both Sexes. by Eliza Fowler Haywood

He did not pause.
— from The Auction Block by Rex Beach

After this we ran down to Quebec at the rate of seventeen miles an hour, and the contretemps did not prevent even those who had screamed the loudest from partaking of a most substantial supper, which was served at eight o'clock in the lowest story of the ship.
— from The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

I have been talking to Tobias Platt, and he says that old Tony, though he has not done much work of late, will carry me well, and that if I do not push him too hard, I may do the journey in three days, or four at the most.”
— from Roger Willoughby: A Story of the Times of Benbow by William Henry Giles Kingston

But, as Mary had feared, the work did not progress altogether to her satisfaction.
— from Woman's Trials; Or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

It is impossible to take away what they do not possess.
— from What Germany Thinks Or, The War as Germans see it by Thomas F. A. Smith

If the oysters are small do not prepare them singly, but place them two together (the large portions at opposite ends), then immerse them in the egg and crumbs together.
— from Canoe and Camp Cookery A Practical Cook Book for Canoeists, Corinthian Sailors and Outers by Seneca (Writer on outdoor life)

I’s hungry—an’ I’ll foller you, massa, troo tick and tin—to de Nort Pole, or de Sout Pole, or de East Pole, or de West Pole—or any oder pole wotsomediver—all de same to Butterface, s’long’s you’ll let ’im stick by you.”
— from The Giant of the North: Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The fact is that if this law does not pass, the thirty millions already expended, the works that have been begun, the private property that has been bought up, destroyed and ruined and the devastation of the Bois de Boulogne, would place him in a terrible position; and so he is as gentle as a lamb and sends his wife to the Tuileries.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse De Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1841-1850 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

I shall now proceed to show what the taxes in England are, and what the yearly expense of the present war is to her—what the taxes of this country amount to, and what the annual expense of defending it effectually will be to us; and shall endeavor concisely to point out the cause of our difficulties, and the advantages on one side, and the consequences on the other, in case we do, or do not, put ourselves in an effectual state of defence.
— from The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The American Crisis by Thomas Paine