We were none of us to press matters to a speedy termination, but to make the most of the exquisite conjunction of our parts.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The entire Conquest of our Passions is so difficult a Work, that they who despair of it should think of a less difficult Task, and only attempt to Regulate them.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Jones desired him to pass over anything that might give him pain in the relation; but Partridge eagerly cried out, “Oh, pray, sir, let us hear this; I had rather hear this than all the rest; as I hope to be saved,
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Nevertheless, among those who have voluntarily joined the Roman Church in various centuries, we verily believe—on the ground of their social standing, their public works, published writings and personal character—that they embraced Christianity out of pure conviction, and conscientiously discharged their duties according to the light that was in them at the time.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

The first few pages of Bede are to a great extent copied out of Pliny, Solinus, Orosius, and Gildas.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

The FIS was perpetuated under the control of Mr. Robert Sherwood, who had a most extraordinary coterie of odd personalities assisting him: Socialist refugees, advertising men, psychologists, psychoanalysts (of both the licensed and lay varieties), professional promoters, theatrical types, German professors, a commercial attaché, young men just out of college, oil executives, and popular authors (novelists, slick writers, Pulitzer winners, pulp writers, humorists, poets and a professional pro-Japanese writer, fresh off the Imperial Japanese Embassy payroll).
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Jane, who was not so light nor so much in the habit of running as Elizabeth, soon lagged behind, while her sister, panting for breath, came up with him, and eagerly cried out: “Oh, papa, what news—what news?
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Great Pyramid, evidently, conforms to this mystical plan; and strikes one, therefore, all the more forcibly as the most remarkable structure for initiatory ceremonies ever constructed on our planet.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Jane, who was not so light, nor so much in the habit of running as Elizabeth, soon lagged behind, while her sister, panting for breath, came up with him, and eagerly cried out, "Oh, Papa, what news?
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Does not the Englishman, consciously or otherwise, put a curse on everything he touches?
— from Devil-Worship in France; or, The Question of Lucifer by Arthur Edward Waite

The crop of Indian corn was almost entirely cut off: of potatoes, hay, oats, &c., there was not, probably, more than half the usual supply.
— from Peter Parley's Own Story From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley") by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

In the present extraordinary crisis of our public concerns, I desire to hold no man's conscience but my own.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

They are dangerous, but perhaps not nearly so much so as the slippery "Yellows," cunning weasels of the imported Russian Hillquit type, who, though they do not talk as openly as the "Reds," are spreading their subversive principles on every side, and especially among the less educated classes of our people, into whose minds they instil the spirit of hatred between employers and employees, while at the same time encouraging strikes, wherever they can, with the hope of overthrowing our Government when conditions become sufficiently critical.
— from The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto

He would just crunch you up; and it is a thousand times better for them to have an uncrunched mother than all the money that ever came out of pickles."
— from The Terrible Twins by Edgar Jepson

He never feels a speech or a song or a sermon or a large meal to be what the English call "out of place" in particular circumstances.
— from The Appetite of Tyranny: Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

It is not an impossible supposition that by taxing our exports we might not only gain nothing from the foreigner, the tax being paid out of our own pockets, but might even compel our own people to pay a second tax to the foreigner.
— from Principles of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill

In each case one or [Pg 128] more personalities crop out, so to speak, come to the surface, and become the conscious, active, ruling personality, distinct from the original self, having entirely different mental, moral, and even physical, characteristics; different tastes, and different sentiments and opinions; personalities entirely unknown to the original self, which no one acquainted with that original self had any reason to suppose existed in connection with that organization.
— from Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by R. Osgood (Rufus Osgood) Mason

Whichever was right, the question at stake was in each case one of principle, and of necessity.
— from Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan