“I should be a great fool,” said I, “if I gave the knave more money to escape from the hands of justice.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

What a situation, now, for a patriotic senator, that had been all the week before spurring up the legislature of his native state to pass more stringent resolutions against escaping fugitives, their harborers and abettors!
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The citizen-soldiers emerged from their houses half dressed, out of breath, buckling on their belts, and hurrying to the commandant's house.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

When the operation was concluded, and Edmond felt that his chin was completely smooth, and his hair reduced to its usual length, he asked for a looking-glass.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Indeed among the brutes it is not likely that there should be any envy, for they have no conception of prosperity or adversity, nor have they any idea of reputation or 313 want of reputation, which are the things that mainly excite envy; but they hate one another, and are hostile to one another, and fight with one another to the death, as eagles and dragons, crows and owls, titmice and finches, insomuch that they say that even the blood of these creatures will not mix, and if you try to mix it it will immediately separate again.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Were nothing esteemed virtue but what were beneficial to society, I am persuaded, that the foregoing explication of the moral sense ought still to be received, and that upon sufficient evidence: But this evidence must grow upon us, when we find other kinds of virtue, which will not admit of any explication except from that hypothesis.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

A more extensive foreign trade, however, which to this great home market added the foreign market of all the rest of the world, especially if any considerable part of this trade was carried on in Chinese ships, could scarce fail to increase very much the manufactures of China, and to improve very much the productive powers of its manufacturing industry.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

But amid all the incense that was offered at her shrine, Madame di Cagliostro was ever faithful to her spouse.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

‘We should be warmer together, but there’s not room enough for two,’ he added.
— from Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

He appeared much disturbed, but Emily fancied, that his countenance had more the expression of horror, than of grief.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

That commerce stimulates them to hunt is true, and a great many buffaloes are annually destroyed expressly for the hides.
— from Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri Edited with Notes and Biographical Sketch by Edwin Thompson Denig

Smart, who had been lost in thought for some time, never dreaming that Dick could reach so far with a whip which, on this particular journey, had never been extended further than his flank, tossed his head, and scampered along with exceeding briskness, which was very pleasant to the young couple behind him till, turning a bend in the road, they came instantly upon the farmer, farmer’s man, and farmer’s wife with the flapping mantle, all jogging on just the same as ever.
— from Under the Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock Quire A Rural Painting of the Dutch School by Thomas Hardy

He was expelled from two Houses of Commons for blasphemy and atheism, as was pretended;—really I suspect because he was a staunch Hanoverian.
— from Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He spent his last shilling at Drury Lane, to see Garrick, who was extremely friendly to him.
— from An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Child

They cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicate, for they have no souls , neither can they appear in person, but by attorney."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

More drilled away into some rather grotesque speculations on the subject of Apocalyptical interpretation; of this, he says, humorously, himself, that while he was writing it "his nag was over free, and went even faster than he desired, but he thought it was the right way"—and there is something pathetic indeed in the mode in which the passionate seekers after truth of those times beat their heads against the various theories of the direct communication of God with man, such as warning dreams and visions, and the face of the heavens by night.
— from Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson

We give here extracts from Gervase Holles’ “Notes on Churches,” descriptive of these windows, etc., from the Harleyan MSS., No. 6,829, as they are given in Weir’s “History,” pp. 50–52, ed. 1820.
— from Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by James Conway Walter

He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears; 11:4 but with righteousness he will judge the poor, and decide with equity for the humble of the earth.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

There was small attraction for passengers on deck, and West grimaced to himself as he emerged from the heated cabins.
— from The Swindler and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell