There I did lay the beginnings of a future ‘amour con elle’ There did what I would with her Think that we are beaten in every respect This is the use we make of our fathers
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

When the whole party were withdrawn, Mrs. Barrett remarked that her young lady had brought that foreign nurse home with her two years ago, on her return from a Continental excursion; that she was treated almost as well as a governess, and had nothing to do but walk out with the baby and chatter French with Master Charles; "and," added Mrs. Barrett, "she says there are many Englishwomen in foreign families as well placed as she."
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

But the process cannot be so simple that this factor alone could explain the origin of demons by projection.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

896 She tells them ’tis a causeless fantasy, And childish error, that they are afraid; Bids them leave quaking, bids them fear no more:
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

We fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

A few records indicate that the peerless monist lived from 510 to 478 B.C.; Western historians assign him to the late eighth century A.D. Readers who are interested in Shankara's famous exposition of the Brahma Sutras will find a careful English translation in Dr. Paul Deussen's System Of The Vedanta (Chicago: Open Court Publishing Company, 1912).
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Some by sudden fires, earthquakes, inundations, or any such dismal objects: Themiscon the physician fell into a hydrophobia, by seeing one sick of that disease: (Dioscorides l. 6. c. 33. ) or by the sight of a monster, a carcase, they are disquieted many months following, and cannot endure the room where a corpse hath been, for a world would not be alone with a dead man, or lie in that bed many years after in which a man hath died.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

There is another circumstance respecting the form and attachments of the superficial fascia, which, in a pathological point of view, is worthy of notice--viz., that owing to the fact of its enveloping the scrotum, penis, spermatic cord, and abdominal parietes, whilst it becomes firmly attached to Poupart's ligament along the abdomino-femoral fold, B C, it isolates these parts, in some degree, from the thigh; and when urine happens to be from any cause extravasated through this abdominal-scrotal bag of the superficial fascia, the thighs do not in general participate in the inflammation superinduced upon such accident.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

The dark young surgeon passes the candle across and across the face and carefully examines the law-writer, who has established his pretensions to his name by becoming indeed No one.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Physiological fatherhood 7 is unknown, and no tie of kinship or relationship is supposed to exist between father and child, except that between a mother’s husband and the wife’s child.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

These reports, by the adoption of the measures they recommended, were sanctioned by the Congress of the United States, and may be considered as furnishing strong, if not full and complete evidence, that the Legislative department of the Government considered the impressment of our seamen as the principal cause which impelled them to have recourse to the last resort of injured nations.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The great majority sympathised with the Alabama, but there was quite a contingent of Union adherents, among whom were the captains of the Tycoon and the Rockingham, with their families and crews, eager that vengeance at last might fall upon the destroyer.
— from Cruise and Captures of the Alabama by Albert M. Goodrich

He could repeat every line of the Iliad; and, what was more remarkable, he could begin at any one line and proceed with the greatest fluency and correctness, even to the end of any chapter or book.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1 by Henry Hunt

All the rapacious family of the cat kind, with the wolf, the dog, the eagle, and the falcon, are continually endeavouring to find her retreat, whilst the stag himself is the foe of his own offspring.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

Hodson stood apart while this discussion was going on, with the bored air of one who was fully acquainted with the facts and could end the unnecessary talk in a moment if he was allowed an opportunity.
— from Cattle-Ranch to College: The True Tales of a Boy's Adventures in the Far West by Russell Doubleday

He then gave orders for a Chapelle Expiatoire to be erected over the grave where they had been lying for two decades, and for masses to be said for the repose of the souls of his murdered relatives.
— from A Short History of France by Mary Platt Parmele

For at home there would be Constance, sitting solitary in her room and indisposed for any communion except that with her own sorrow-burdened heart; while on the other hand, within a few minutes' drive, there was Dawson Place—bright with flowers and pleasant memories—and above all, Mary, who was always glad to see her, and would perhaps be wishing for her and expecting her even now.
— from Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

“Oh, well,” said skeptic number two, while number one retired into silence to speculate over this answer, “fires are common enough things; anybody can know that they happen; but it ain't such a common affair to see a stick turn into a serpent and swallow up other serpents.
— from Ester Ried Yet Speaking by Pansy

As these letters and figures are clear, easy to make and are preferred by the patent office they are good ones for you to use.
— from Inventing for Boys by A. Frederick (Archie Frederick) Collins

But save for him who desires fossils, and coprolites especially, the most uninteresting of all fossils, which may be found in abundance in the cliff, a visit to Walton is not recommended.
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent