" "Poor dear Dodo—how dreadful!" said Celia, feeling as much grieved as her own perfect happiness would allow.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Did she care for anything except her profession?
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Hence the first and fundamental rule in this department is that which directly secures conjugal fidelity: and the utilitarian grounds for protecting marriage indirectly, by condemning all extra-nuptial intercourse of the sexes, are obvious: for to remove the moral censure that rests on such intercourse would seriously diminish men’s motives for incurring the restraints and burdens which marriage entails; and the youth of both sexes would form habits of feeling and conduct tending to unfit them for marriage; and, if such intercourse were fertile, it would be attended with that imperfect care of the succeeding generation, which it seems the object of permanent unions to prevent; while if it were sterile, the future of the human race would, as far as we can see, be still more profoundly imperilled.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

When we cover her loins with the doba , she cannot fly any more.”
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

(To the Boy:) Tell me, boy, do you assert that a double space comes from a double line?
— from Meno by Plato

Doubt takes the form of dispute, controversy; different sides compete for a conclusion in their favor.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

He does some canvassing for ads.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Those who were defending the lower parts of the city against Fabius, astounded at this tumult, afforded him an opportunity of applying the scaling ladders, and every place soon became filled with the enemy, and a dreadful slaughter continued for a long time, indiscriminately of those who fled and those who resisted, of the armed or unarmed.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Between him and State Street the relation was more natural than between Edward Everett and State Street; but instead of doing so, Charles Francis Adams drew himself aloof and renewed the old war which had already lasted since 1700.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

God, when he had driven Adam from this fortunate country, rubbed his gums with this same Rind, that he might never find the way back again; for more than fifteen years thereafter he did dote, and did so completely forget all things, that neither he nor any of his descendants till Moses ever remembered even so much as the Creation; but what Power was left of this direful Rind at last passed away through the warmth and brightness of that great Prophet's genius.
— from A Voyage to the Moon by Cyrano de Bergerac

"She is not of us, as I divine; She comes from another, stiller world of the dead."
— from Laurel Vane; or, The Girls' Conspiracy by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

This view derives singular corroboration from a passage in Jerome, which speaks of carrying the body of Christ in a basket made of twigs, 544.png
— from The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow

Meantime, as soon after the close of the school year as Dr. Sandford could find a good chance for me, I was to come out to them at Lausanne, where my mother thought they would be by that time.
— from Daisy by Susan Warner

"You are not light-hearted as you were; does she care for any one more than you?"
— from Ovind: A Story of Country Life in Norway by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

Ȝe war not wont tobe sa lyddyr ilkane At nycht batellys and workis venerian, Or quhar the bowand trumpet blew the spryng, At Bachus dans to go in caralyng, 30 [Pg 738] Syne go to fest at tabill, and syt at des, Se cowpys full, and mony danty mes: Thar was ȝour lust, plesour, and appetite, Thar was ȝour bissy cuyr and ȝour delyte; Quhen that the happy spayman, on hys gys, 5 Pronuncit the festual haly sacryfys, And the fat offerandis dyd ȝou call on raw To banket amyd the dern blissyt schaw.
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil