Not a doubt of that I thought.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In the Roman law also, under the head of "those who on account of unworthiness are deprived of their inheritance," it is pronounced, that "such heirs as are proved to have neglected revenging the testator's death, shall be obliged to restore the entire profits.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

But besides considerations of foreign policy, the attention of Russian society was at that time keenly directed on the internal changes that were being undertaken in all the departments of government.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And everywhere through the soft morning vistas we glimpse the villages, the countless villages, the myriad villages, thatched, built of clean new matting, snuggling among grouped palms and sheaves of bamboo; villages, villages, no end of villages, not three hundred yards apart, and dozens and dozens of them in sight all the time; a mighty City, hundreds of miles long, hundreds of miles broad, made all of villages, the biggest city in the earth, and as populous as a European kingdom.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Allah knows that I could not do otherwise than I have done, and that these Christians owe nothing to my will; for even had I wished not to accompany them, but remain at home, it would have been impossible for me, so eagerly did my soul urge me on to the accomplishment of this purpose, which I feel to be as righteous as to thee, dear father, it seems wicked."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Mr. Tronchin asked her if the doctrine of the immortality of the soul could be gathered from the Old Testament alone.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

A wide range of CCITT documents is available through The Teledoc database of The International Telecommunication Union (ITU):
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Heyward would gladly have heard more, but a gentle push from his friend urged him toward the door, and admonished him of the danger that might attend the discovery of their intercourse.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

The humanist view of 'reality,' as something resisting, yet malleable, which controls our thinking as an energy that must be taken 'account' of incessantly (tho not necessarily merely COPIED) is evidently a difficult one to introduce to novices.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

But upon the deliberations of the Indian council-house depended the whole action of the confederacy.
— from The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

Hitherto the former has been the most popular, doubtless owing to its being the pattern adopted by builders, but it has since yielded place in the estimation of tandem drivers to the dog-cart described (Plate XXXIV.); though both are, and will continue to be, regarded as the highest types of their respective kinds.
— from Riding and Driving by Edward L. (Edward Lowell) Anderson

So Mr. George, with an air and manner which seemed to say, It is none of my concern, walked up a flight of steps which led to a sort of elevated porch or platform before the door of the inn.
— from Rollo in Switzerland by Jacob Abbott

From 1867 to 1869 he was Director of the Imperial Chapel.
— from The Russian Opera by Rosa Newmarch

Others have dwelt on the inadequacy of this attempt, even for its avowed purposes.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 13 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Dead men could not be beggared, deprived of their independence.
— from Five Tales by John Galsworthy

Then Diomed spake, “Nay, we will not take the fair Helen’s self, for a man may know, even though he be a fool, that the doom of Troy is come.”
— from Stories of the Old World by Alfred John Church

Men might say that Mr. Sumner was an impracticable theorist; but it was to him, more than to any other man, that we owed the defeat of the iniquitous Louisiana proposition in the last Congress, the success of which would have established a precedent fraught with great danger to the nation.”
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 13 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

There are many animals which pass the winter in a torpid state which has all the appearance of death; and they would continue in that state, if deprived of the influence of heat; now heat if applied to dead matter, will only produce motion, or chemical combination: in fluids it produces motions by occasioning a change in their specific gravity; and we know that it is one of the most powerful agents in chemical combination and decomposition; but these are the only effects it produces when it acts upon dead matter.
— from Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett

The Intelligence Community and law enforcement agencies will therefore continue their aggressive efforts to identify terrorists and their organizations, map their command and control and support infrastructure, and then ensure we have broad, but appropriate, distribution of the intelligence to federal, state, and local agencies as well as to our international allies.
— from National Strategy for Combating Terrorism February 2003 by United States. Executive Office of the President