If this be so, we can offer another explanation of the persistent unsatisfied demand for an ultimate reason, above noticed.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

If his very poverty compels the tenant to live at a rate if not in a style that would beggar a Vanderbilt, paying four prices for everything he needs, from his rent and coal down to the smallest item in his housekeeping account, fashion, no less inexorable in the tenements than on the avenue, exacts of him that he must die in a style that is finally and utterly ruinous.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

he said in astonishment; “what could urge one of thy rank and seeming worth to so foul an undertaking?” “Richard,” said the captive Knight, looking up to him, “thou knowest little of mankind, if thou knowest not to what ambition and revenge can lead every child of Adam.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

The last work is by some critics given a very high place in realistic fiction, but like the other three, and like Defoe's minor narratives of Jack Sheppard and Cartouche, it is a disagreeable study of vice, ending with a forced and unnatural repentance.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

“With some money down,” I replied, for an uneasy remembrance shot across me of that symmetrical bundle of papers at home—“with some money down, and perhaps some anticipation of my expectations.”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The fundamental and universal reasons are of very obscure and difficult research, and our masters either lightly pass them over, or not daring so much as to touch them, precipitate themselves into the liberty and protection of custom, there puffing themselves out and triumphing to their heart’s content: such as will not suffer themselves to be withdrawn from this original source, do yet commit a greater error, and subject themselves to wild opinions; witness Chrysippus,—[Sextus Empiricus, Pyyrhon.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Because such fidelity is false and unnatural, root and branch.
— from Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

YET SOME LAGGARDS YET The Perfect Human Voice Shakspere for America "Unassailed Renown" Inscription for a Little Book on Giordano Bruno Splinters Health (Old Style) Gay-heartedness As in a Swoon L. of G. After the Argument For Us Two, Reader Dear MEMORANDA MEMORANDA
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

This was to be a poignant retaliation upon the officer who had said "mule drivers," and later "mud diggers," for in all the wild graspings of his mind for a unit responsible for his sufferings and commotions he always seized upon the man who had dubbed him wrongly.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

“Mine was the first wrong, when I betrayed thy budding youth into a false and unnatural relation with my decay.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The infuriated men then commenced striking at the door itself, which offered, however, to all attacks, a firm and unyielding resistance.
— from Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

10 And yet dominion was not his design; We owe that blessing, not to him, but Heaven, Which to fair acts unsought rewards did join; Rewards, that less to him, than us, were given.
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden

Although intelligent and spiritual, it is still a feeling, and ultimately rests also on a feeling, that, viz., of love, out of which, as its root and foundation, it arises.
— from The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures by Friedrich von Schlegel

Being anxious to commence the investigation of the coasts of Terra Australis, the stripping of the masts and reparation of the rigging were deferred to King George's Sound, and no more was done at the ship than necessity required; for I preferred passing the time necessary to a complete re-equipment in a port where astronomical observations and surveys could be at the same time usefully carried on, and the naturalists employ themselves in a field almost unexplored, rather than in a bay already well known, and where the surrounding country had been so often traversed.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders

Orazio and his young Romans could have avoided the combat by taking refuge in the subterranean passages, but disdaining a retreat before measuring his strength with the Papal mercenaries, he determined to show fight, and upon returning to the castle with Gasparo, hastened to have the doors barricaded and holes made in the walls for the musketeers, while every necessary instrument was put in readiness for the siege.
— from Rule of the Monk; Or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Giuseppe Garibaldi

The Indian name of pirarucú is given to it from the native words pira , fish, and urucú , red; in allusion, says Mr Bates, to the red colour of the borders of its scales.
— from The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston

Fiji's tourism industry was damaged by the December 2006 coup and is facing an uncertain recovery time.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

In the same way, I fear, a universal recognition that excessive meat indulgence is a climatic error will take many decades before it is an article of national belief.
— from The Art of Living in Australia Together with Three Hundred Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information by Mrs. H. Wicken by Philip E. Muskett

Live this life of toil, and starvation, and friendlessness, and "unwomanly rags," and learn charity.
— from Folly as It Flies; Hit at by Fanny Fern by Fanny Fern

For the sublimity that is rooted in religion tolerates some faults and utterly refuses to tolerate others.
— from The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Aeschylus