You were not even guilty of robbery, when you might have robbed with impunity.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

There is no reason for giving a denial to any person, since there is such plenty of everything among them; and there is no danger of a man’s asking for more than he needs; they have no inducements to do this, since they are sure they shall always be supplied: it is the fear of want that makes any of the whole race of animals either greedy or ravenous; but, besides fear, there is in man a pride that makes him fancy it a particular glory to excel others in pomp and excess; but by the laws of the Utopians, there is no room for this.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

I am happy to say my client, Miss Matilda, also left the shop in an equally bewildered state, not having purchased either green or red silk.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

I was ready to go away with every waggon, to drive off with every gentleman of respectable appearance who took a cab; but no one—absolutely no one—invited me; it seemed they had forgotten me, as though really I were a stranger to them!
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If they chop upon one truth, that carries a mighty report If they hear no noise, they think men sleep If to philosophise be, as ‘tis defined, to doubt Ignorance does not offend me, but the foppery of it Impotencies that so unseasonably surprise the lover Ill luck is good for something Imagne the mighty will not abase themselves so much as to live Imitating other men’s natures, thou layest aside thy own Immoderate either seeking or evading glory or reputation
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

every grain of rice separate . . .
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

The last chapter apparently dates from a period when the excessive growth of ritual practices led to a reaction.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

In like manner, and to the fullest extent, has Frederick Douglass passed through every gradation of rank comprised in our national make-up, and bears upon his person and upon his soul every thing that is American.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

is so inaccessible he can have no opportunity of either granting or refusing.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

This consists of a board, called the blade or arm, pivoted on the post, and back of the pivot is a heavy casting which carries a colored glass lens, either green or red.
— from The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke

You are sure none saw you either going or returning?”
— from The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini

The hand which wrote "Goodbye, Jim"—not classical in either Greek or Roman sense, yet a great American Classic—with its pungent odor of Blue Jeans, with its clean, sweet, clear-cut, fine smell, of its native soil— that hand may never again hold the Pen; the man himself, may crumble—God forbid!—back into the Dust— that "Little Dust of Harm"—out of which he came; but his Poems will not, cannot die.
— from A Spray of Kentucky Pine Placed at the Feet of the Dead Poet James Whitcomb Riley by Douglass Sherley

Every Sunday he took down his best hat from its peg, and his large red Prayer Book from the shelf, and walked to the village church; but he never spoke to any one either going or returning, and even the little children shrunk away from him as he passed them.
— from The Boy Artist. A Tale for the Young by F. M. S.

The Phœnicians were less idolatrous than the Egyptians, Greeks, or Romans; for their temples contained either no visible image of their deities, or only a rude symbol like the conical stone which was held to represent Astarte.
— from A Manual of Ancient History by M. E. (Mary Elsie) Thalheimer

ed., by Arthur Philemon Coleman and Arthur Oliver Wheeler *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GLACIERS OF ROCKIES, SELKIRKS *** *****
— from Glaciers of the Rockies and Selkirks, 2nd. ed. With Notes on Five Great Glaciers of the Canadian National Parks by A. P. (Arthur Philemon) Coleman

Monks, knights, merchants, and priests thronged to its hospitable shores, on their way to and from adjoining countries, and many fair dames were conducted so far, and found pleasant refuge in Cyprus, whilst their chivalrous husbands journeyed farther east, to assist in the vain attempt to obtain possession of the tomb of Christ, and earn either an early grave, or return covered with wounds and glory.
— from Cyprus: Historical and Descriptive by Franz von Löher

CHAPTER XIV SUGGESTION AND ASSURANCE When Miriam went out by herself to walk, either going or returning she took the road in which was Mallard's studio.
— from The Emancipated by George Gissing