When in the evening we had supped off trout at the Wilhelmsburg, drunk good Czernosek wine with Bilin water, and duly excited ourselves over Hoffmann, Beethoven, Shakespeare, Heinse's Ardinghello, and other matters, and then, with our limbs comfortably outstretched in our elegant carriage, drove back in the summer twilight to the 'King of Prussia,' where we occupied the large balcony-room on the first floor, we felt that we had spent the day like young gods, and for sheer exuberance could think of nothing better to do than to indulge in the most frightful quarrels which, especially when the windows were open, would collect numbers of alarmed listeners in the square before the inn.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

The legend of the Meddygon Myddfai again introduces the elfin cattle to our notice, but combines with them another and a very interesting form of this superstition, namely, that of the wife of supernatural race.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

For the time, we must think of nothing else, can think of nothing else, indeed.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

So long, therefore, as we are not assailed by emotions contrary to our nature, the mind's power, whereby it endeavours to understand things (IV. xxvi.), is not impeded, and therefore it is able to form clear and distinct ideas and to deduce them one from another (II. xl. note.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

He left a fortune of several millions in good current coin, and everything came to our noble scion, our gaitered baron, formerly treated for idiocy in a Swiss lunatic asylum.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Alnwick (an′ik), a town of England, county town of Northumberland, 34 miles north of Newcastle, near the Aln.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

It does not follow that if substance may be dropped from our conception of the irrecoverably past, it need be an equally empty complication to our notions of the future.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

These three—namely, images, words, and ideas—are by many persons either entirely confused together, or not distinguished with sufficient accuracy or care, and hence people are generally in ignorance, how absolutely necessary is a knowledge of this doctrine of the will, both for philosophic purposes and for the wise ordering of life.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

X. So long as we are not assailed by emotions contrary to our nature, we have the power of arranging and associating the modifications of our body according to the intellectual order.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

So long, therefore, as we are not assailed by emotions contrary to our nature, the mind's power, whereby it endeavours to understand things (IV:xxvi.), is not impeded, and therefore it is able to form clear and distinct ideas and to deduce them one from another (II:xl.Note.ii.
— from Ethics — Part 5 by Benedictus de Spinoza

The ancient national dress reappeared: hope and exultation beamed in every countenance; the old nobles, quitting the solitary castles in which they had been lamenting over the downfall of Poland, crowded the levees of the Victor, and addressed him in language which recalled the half-oriental character and manners of their nation.
— from The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

Elsie could think of nothing better than to refer to the handkerchief they had left behind.
— from Taken Alive by Edward Payson Roe

And when their love was hopeless, and discovered, the two young foolish things, not having—as is too common in France—the fear of God before their eyes, could think of no better resource than to shut themselves up with a pan of lighted charcoal, and so go they knew not-whither.
— from At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies by Charles Kingsley

So long as we are not assailed by emotions contrary to our nature, we have the power of arranging and associating the modifications of our body according to the intellectual order.
— from Ethics — Part 5 by Benedictus de Spinoza

“If we did,” said Fred, “we’d have to stop, and they’d surely pass us, and whether we’d ever catch them or not would be a question.”
— from The Go Ahead Boys in the Island Camp by Ross Kay

You scarcely resemble her at all, and yet already I see how very like her you are." Elsie could think of no response, and fearing that he was awaking painful feelings, Mr. Middleton changed the subject by inquiring kindly after her stepmother.
— from Elsie Marley, Honey by Joslyn Gray

Her miniature is now owned by Miss Elizabeth C. Trott of Niagara Falls, the great grand-daughter of General John Winslow, and a copy is shown in the frontispiece.
— from Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771 by Anna Green Winslow