"Keep your promise, dear," he answered, while the warlike expression changed to one of infinite tenderness.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

"et" changed to " ou ".
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

“Effect!” cried this offended member of the faculty, “pshaw!—stuff!—who made you judge of effects or causes?”
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

When some were praising the magnificence and justice with which the Eleans conducted the Olympian games, Agis said, "What is there so very remarkable in the people of Elis acting justly on one day in every five years?"
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

The difference between the politician turned into a philosopher and the philosopher turned into a politician, is symbolized by the two kinds of disordered eyesight, cxiii the one which is experienced by the captive who is transferred from darkness to day, the other, of the heavenly messenger who voluntarily for the good of his fellow-men descends into the den.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

He, however, continued to shew a kind attention to his widow and children as long as it was acceptable; and he took upon him, with a very earnest concern, the office of one of his executors, the importance of which seemed greater than usual to him, from his circumstances having been always such, that he had scarcely any share in the real business of life.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

In France, where the revolution of which I am speaking has gone further than in any other European country, these opinions have got complete hold of the public mind.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Proof.—Pleasure and pain, and consequently the emotions compounded thereof, or derived therefrom, are passions, or passive states (III.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

An earnest consideration, therefore, of anything desired is apt to enlarge and generalise aspiration till it embraces an ideal life; for from almost any starting-point the limits and contours of mortal happiness are soon descried.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Nature accommodates herself to these emergencies, cried the opponents—else what do you say to the case of a whole stomach—a whole pair of lungs, and but half a man, when both his legs have been unfortunately shot off?
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

‘Well, then, to explain calmly that one couldn’t commit this or that sordid rascality;—it comes to the same thing.
— from In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing

Weak and poorly clad as was his army, he sent out detachments to harass the British, and with such spirit were those expeditions conducted, that, on or before the 1st of March, not a British or Hessian soldier remained in the Jerseys, except at New Brunswick and Amboy.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

5 In nearly every city, town, or place there is 30 some feature, architectural or natural, which gives character to it, and it would add greatly to the interest of letters from abroad if they were headed with a little outline sketch, or indication of the principal objects.
— from The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. by Henry Blackburn

—Viewed as notions of the intuitive faculty, or original conceptions, it would be in place to consider more particularly the circumstances under which each of these ideas originates, and the characteristics of each; also what constitutes , in either case, the object, what constitutes the beautiful and the right.
— from Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will by Joseph Haven

Oyster, Eldest, conservative temperament of, 279 .
— from The Librarian at Play by Edmund Lester Pearson

Do you know they's even crazy talk of a railroad an' wire line clean across the kentry?
— from The Lost Wagon by Jim Kjelgaard

Under those circumstances it was perhaps wise, wherever there was the smallest SUSPICION of danger or ill-luck, to create a hard and fast TABOO—just as we tell our children ON NO ACCOUNT to walk under a ladder (thereby creating a superstition in their minds), partly because it would take too long to explain all about the real dangers of paint-pots and other things, and partly because for the children themselves it seems simpler to have a fixed and inviolable law than to argue over every case that occurs.
— from Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning by Edward Carpenter

On March 24th, following the custom of British Sovereigns, several special Embassies were appointed and announced to carry to European Courts the official intimation of His Majesty's accession.
— from The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

The reason which prompted this bold and enterprising commander to observe unusual circumspection in his advance up the Cumberland Valley is obvious.
— from Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 by John Lockwood