Petulant’s an enemy to learning; he relies altogether on his parts.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

"I'm glad you are poor; I couldn't bear a rich husband," said Jo decidedly, adding, in a softer tone, "Don't fear poverty; I've known it long enough to lose my dread, and be happy working for those I love; and don't call yourself old,—forty is the prime of life.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

As my present object is only to show the meaning of the doctrine of identification in its bearing upon the theory of possession, it would be out of place to consider at any length how far that doctrine must be invoked to explain the liability of principals for their agents' torts, or whether a more reasonable rule governs other cases than that applied where the actor has a tolerably defined status as a [230] servant.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Now shame on the coward soul, which wants the courage either to be a firm Friend or open Enemy!' 'To look upon guilt with horror, Matilda, is in itself a merit: In this respect I glory to confess myself a Coward.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Even the looking-glass, a miserably cheap construction which distorted every face whose owner had the hardihood to look into it, stood upon a draperied altar of starched muslin and pink glazed calico, and was adorned with frills of lace and knitted work.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

By the ancient law of France, as well as by that of most other parts of Europe, the labour of the country people was under the direction of a local or provincial magistracy, which had no immediate dependency upon the king's council.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

A man who has enough to live on, if he knew how to stay with pleasure at home, would not leave it to go to sea or to besiege a town.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

The remaining part of Syria (except those parts which will be spoken of in conjunction with the Euphrates) contains the Arethusii 3765 , the Berœenses 3766 , and the Epiphanæenses 3767 ; 441 and on the east, the Laodiceni 3768 , who are called the Laodiceni on the Libanus, the Leucadii 3769 , and the Larissæi, besides seventeen other Tetrarchies, divided into kingdoms and bearing barbarous names.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

He made a long stay in the dining-room after dinner, and, I fear, took an unusual quantity of wine, but not enough to loosen his tongue: for when he came in and found me quietly occupied with my book, too busy to lift my head on his entrance, he merely murmured an expression of suppressed disapprobation, and, shutting the door with a bang, went and stretched himself at full length on the sofa, and composed himself to sleep.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Nor in my opinion would so many fair flowers of imagery have bloomed among the philosophical dogmas of Plato, nor would he have risen so often to the language and topics of poetry, had he not engaged heart and soul in a contest for precedence with Homer, like a young champion entering the lists against a veteran.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

It is fairly well established also that Huygens was the first one to make a mathematical investigation of the properties of the pendulum, and to enumerate the laws since utilized for making accurate clocks and watches.
— from Invention: The Master-key to Progress by Bradley A. (Bradley Allen) Fiske

As the Makambo rolled on an easy sea the door swung back and forth, remaining wide open for intervals and banging shut but not banging hard enough to latch itself.
— from Michael, Brother of Jerry by Jack London

Extinguishing the light, he walked out into the hallway, carrying the grip in his hand.
— from The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer

His father, being a personal and political friend of Mr. Van Buren and other members of the celebrated 'Albany Regency'; his home was made a kind of headquarters for various members of that council to whose conversation the precocious child enjoyed to listen.
— from Hidden Treasures; Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail by Harry A. Lewis

3. In the next place, this system introduces a third party, to whom the apprentice is encouraged to look for justice, redress, and counsel.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

In 1802, on the supposition that Lord Wellesley's resignation as Governor-General of India was imminent, an idea had been entertained that Lord Castlereagh should be offered the Governor-Generalship, and Wilberforce had been asked to approach him on the subject.
— from Private Papers of William Wilberforce by William Wilberforce

At the club he ran across Jackson of the Atoll Trading Company—the old man liked him from the first and they used to spend the evenings together, lingering over their glasses, talking a little in low tones.
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

The Cantabrian Sierras, already sufficiently majestic, now reach their culmination in the acknowledged monarchs of the range—the Picos de Europa, the landmark of all the old navigators who once steered their Mexican argosies into Gijon or Santander.
— from Northern Spain by Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram

Compensation of the President, &c. —Report of a committee on the compensation of President, Vice President, Senators, and Representatives considered, 116 ; in what style is the President expected to live?
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress