The court would soon sit to try her case, he said, and consequently a great deal of ready money would be needed in the engineering of it.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Judge then of my mortification when, after attending the choral anthems of last Wednesday at Westminster, and being desirous of renewing my acquaintance, after lapsed years, with the tombs and antiquities there, I found myself excluded; turned out like a dog, or some profane person, into the common street, with feelings not very congenial to the place, or to the solemn service which I had been listening to.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

This wholly diverted my thoughts from the design of removing my habitation, and I busied myself mightily, that day especially, in searching whether I could make any way into the ship; but I found nothing was to be expected of that kind, for all the inside of the ship was choked up with sand.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Obviously obstacles which discourage one race may stimulate another.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

A creature might be entirely devoid of reproductive memory, and yet have the time-sense; but the [Pg 631] latter would be limited, in his case, to the few seconds immediately passing by.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

During our ride, Mrs. Selwyn very much surprised me, by asking, if I thought my health would now permit me to give up my morning walks to the pump-room, for the purpose of spending a week at Clifton?
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march!
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

But those who are true fathers of their households desire and endeavour that all the members of their household, equally with their own children, should worship and win God, and should come to that heavenly home in which the duty of ruling men is no longer necessary, because the duty of caring for their everlasting happiness has also ceased; but, until they reach that home, masters ought to feel their position of authority a greater burden than servants their service.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

But mamma was near spoiling all, a day or two later, by saying— "I hope your uncle Sir Godwin will not look down on Rosy, Mr. Lydgate.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I, on the other hand, when I came into the world, looked so spare and sickly, that they despaired of rearing me."
— from Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo

One truth he fails wholly to heed; That a doubt oft repeated may bore like a creed.
— from Three Women by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"At another time I may look at it differently or reason myself out of it.
— from What Dreams May Come by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Pg 106] invariable, and fixed in the nature of things; and without endeavouring to go back to an account of first principles, which for ever will elude our search, we will conclude that whatever goes under the name of taste, which we can fairly bring under the dominion of reason, must be considered as equally exempt from change.
— from Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses Edited, with an Introduction, by Helen Zimmern by Reynolds, Joshua, Sir

The impression got abroad that he felt rather friendly to the enterprise because it would put 500 scudi in the depleted coffers of the public and turn a great deal of ready money loose within the confines of Texas.
— from The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by William Cowper Brann

He also fixed the stove daily, or rather made me do it, and this work of course became very monotonous.
— from Gems for the Young Folks Fourth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-Day Saints. by Various

No one knowing Amber (let us say) could ever have mistaken him for Rutton; and yet any one, strange to both, armed with a description of Rutton, might pardonably have believed Amber to be his man.
— from The Bronze Bell by Louis Joseph Vance