II., Chapter VIII., will discover in the foundation given by me to Ethics a logical consecution, a rounded completeness, wanting to all other theories; to say nothing of the consonance of my view with the facts of experience,—a consonance which he will look for in vain elsewhere.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

You will find it very expensive, all this.
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

It is so firm beneath our feet that we forget its very existence.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Then those that stood upon the hills behind Repeated ­ "Come again, and thrice as fair"; And, further inland, voices echoed ­ "Come With all good things, and war shall be no more".
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Si quem conspexerit speciosae formae invenem, venustate ejus sumitur, et in eum animum intorquet .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It was an immeasurable and composite funk, which from its very excess gave him in the dark a false appearance of calm and thoughtful deliberation.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

When he did, I began to apologize for having disappointed him; but I did not find it very easy to excuse myself, as Lord Orville’s eyes, with an expression of anxiety that distressed me, turned from him to me, and me to him, every word I spoke.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

"Exercise may be taken, by the robust, at any time, even after eating heartily, but the delicate ought to avoid that risk; they should resort to it only when the frame is vigorous enough to bear it, and this is usually from one to four or five hours after eating.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

You ask me in your letter to write you a comparison—a summing up—between Clara Schumann, Bülow, Tausig and Rubinstein, but I don't find it very easy to do, as they are all so different.
— from Music-Study in Germany, from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Amy Fay

Why shouldn't you be with mine?" Caroline did not find it very easy to speak.
— from Capricious Caroline by Effie Adelaide Rowlands

His parallel between Luther and Calvin is a fine specimen of composition, noted for its vigorous English, clear, discriminating judgments, and polished style: “Both Luther and Calvin brought the individual immediate relation with God; but Calvin, under a more stern and militant form of doctrine, lifted the individual above pope and prelate, and priest and presbyter, above Catholic church and national church and general synod, above indulgencies, remissions and absolutions from fellow-mortals, and brought him into immediate dependence on God, whose eternal, irreversible choice is made by himself alone, not arbitrarily, but according to his own highest wisdom and justice.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, June 1885, No. 9 by Chautauqua Institution

The medical faculty in vain explained the belief by Ephialtes or nightmare, and recommended for it belladonna rather than exorcisms.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

To him is the place indebted for its very effective water-works to guard against fires in the future.
— from Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men by Various

Ibidem Radulfus Fleming i. virgatam et dim. de feudo Comitis David.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

It would also seem a crying injustice for a neutral Government, in order merely to secure for its subjects the right of passage on enemy ships when they might just as well, or indeed with far greater safety, travel by neutral vessels, to grasp at the arm of a belligerent Power, fighting perhaps for its very existence.
— from In the World War by Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria, Graf

This fact is very evident from the authorities.
— from The Trial of Jesus from a Lawyer's Standpoint, Vol. 2 (of 2) The Roman Trial by Walter M. (Walter Marion) Chandler

Mr. Froude is very explicit here.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various