That division of the heart and of the mind appears to me a pure sophism, and if it does not strike you as such you must admit that you do not love me wholly, for I cannot exist without mind, and you cannot cherish my heart if it does not agree with my mind.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“For the honour of the family, I could even resolve to incommode you to that extent.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

I followed the footsteps down the yew alley, I saw the spot at the moor-gate where he seemed to have waited, I remarked the change in the shape of the prints after that point, I noted that there were no other footsteps save those of Barrymore on the soft gravel, and finally I carefully examined the body, which had not been touched until my arrival.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

According to Brotier, the Jesuit Babin, on visiting it, found its circumference estimated at thirty-six miles only.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

There, display and extravagance, in dress, in furniture, in costly entertainments, are startling.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

for i cannot endure even to see them, who after receiving such great benefits at my [Pg 103] hands have given me such a recompense, nor will i enter the city.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

When I watched the seductive figures of the Tarantella, my blood was on fire; I could endure it no longer, and that was why I brought you down
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

Next is the river Cestrus; 215 on sailing up its stream 60 stadia we find the city Perge, 216 and near it upon an elevated place, the temple of the Pergæan Artemis, where a general festival is celebrated every year.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

With a feeling I cannot express, I asked, if he were dead, then.
— from The Smuggler: A Tale. Volumes I-III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

At a Conference at Great Headquarters at Pless, in Silicia, where offices were moved from France as soon as the Field Marshal took charge, Hindenburg was made the leader of all the armed forces in Central Europe.
— from Germany, The Next Republic? by Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman

This they did; and after the Spirits had presented themselves to the Empress, (in what shapes and forms, I cannot exactly tell) after some few Complements that passed between them, the Empress told the Spirits that she questioned not, but they did know how she was a stranger in that World, and by what miraculous means she was arrived there; and since she had a great desire to know the condition of the World she came from, her request to the Spirits was, To give her some Information thereof, especially of those parts of the World where she was born, bred, and educated; as also of her particular friends and acquaintance: all which, the Spirits did according to her desire.
— from The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World by Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of

If the bulb is wounded, as no doubt frequently occurs, the flow from it can easily be checked.
— from A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell

It must, then, be evident to every true lover of the Republic, that the State, were it at liberty to favor any particular portion of the community, should favor its conservative element—the Catholics—instead of robbing Catholics of millions of dollars, to continue, by godless education, the impious work for the increase of the number of enemies of the Republic; it should rather supply [Pg 294] Catholics with the means to bring up their children in the spirit of true freedom—in the spirit of devotedness to republican institutions.
— from Public School Education by Michael Müller

There is no doubt that hyper-sensitiveness to noises troubled Leech "from his youth up," for we find in comparatively early drawings in Punch examples of the nuisances created by the fish-hawkers, and the sellers of the great variety of things that nobody wants, at the different seaside places where he took his so-called holidays.
— from John Leech, His Life and Work, Vol. 2 [of 2] by William Powell Frith

Hence the many "causes" assigned for indigestion, constipation, etc., and the many kinds of remedies prescribed with the one sure result, failure ; and hence, also, not a few of the self- and drug-intoxicated ones dubbed, or actually developed into, hypochondriacs.
— from Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis by Alcinous B. (Alcinous Burton) Jamison

"We have had fogs two days out of the week I have spent here, and I fancy I could escape that if I could get to the top of the mountains."
— from Overland Tales by Josephine Clifford

But the outline at least in which it is framed is clear enough.
— from The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice by Stephen Leacock

This cell will run small motors, and is good for induction coils, etc.
— from How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity by Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John