He did not care to admit clearly that his taking Sue to him again had at bottom nothing to do with repentance of letting her go, but was, primarily, a human instinct flying in the face of custom and profession.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

But she saw that the life of the other was full of care and poverty, misery and woe.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

So sweetly to these ravish'd ears of mine Came thy sweet greeting, that if thou shouldst fade Thy memory will waste me to a shade— For pity do not melt!"—"If I should stay," Said Lamia, "here, upon this floor of clay, And pain my steps upon these flowers too rough, What canst thou say or do of charm enough To dull the nice remembrance of my home?
— from Lamia by John Keats

29 As another instance of these bitter fruits of conquest, and perhaps the strongest that can be quoted, we may mention, that the Princess Matilda, though a daughter of the King of Scotland, and afterwards both Queen of England, niece to Edgar Atheling, and mother to the Empress of Germany, the daughter, the wife, and the mother of monarchs, was obliged, during her early residence for education in England, to assume the veil of a nun, as the only means of escaping the licentious pursuit of the Norman nobles.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Note 140 ( return ) [ The Mahometan doctors still dispute, whether Mecca was reduced by force or consent, (Abulfeda, p. 107,
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

By degrees, from the furious declamations of one, the fierce interruptions of another, and the bitter scoffs of a third, we found that they were deputies from our colony at Paris, from three parties there formed, who, each with angry rivalry, tried to attain a superiority over the other two.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

They were full of charm and promise.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Following Olga came a period of what Bertram called “one night stands,” so frequently were the dramatis personæ below stairs changed.
— from Miss Billy — Married by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

[Pushpa Kamal DAHAL also known as Prahanda, chairman; and chief negotiator, Dr. Baburam BHATTARAI, from Communist Party of Nepal/Maoist]; numerous small, left-leaning student groups in the capital; several small, radical Nepalese antimonarchist groups Netherlands Federation of Netherlands Trade Union Movement (comprising Socialist and Catholic trade unions) and a Protestant trade union; Federation of Catholic and Protestant Employers Associations; Interchurch Peace Council or IKV; large multinational firms; the nondenominational Federation of Netherlands Enterprises Netherlands
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Or, on the other hand, if it be understood to consist rather in the careful investigation of the succession of chemical differentiations and their accompanying physical changes, which give rise to the formation of a variety of tissues that are found to possess certain specific properties, to display certain definite actions due to a further flow of chemical and physical modifications."
— from The Mechanism of Life by Stéphane Leduc

Is the reader aware, were these boyish men aware, that—besides, what we all know from Shakespeare, a mob won to Cæsar's side by his very last codicils of his will; besides a crowd of public magistrates and dependents charged upon the provinces, etc., for two years deep by Cæsar's act, though in requital of no services or attachment to himself; besides a distinct Cæsarian party; finally, besides Antony, the express representative and assignee of Cæsar, armed at this moment with the powers of Consul—there was over and above a great military officer of Cæsar's (Lentulus), then by accident in Rome, holding a most potent government through the mere favour of Cæsar, and pledged therefore by an instant interest of self-promotion, backed by a large number of Julian troops at that instant billeted on a suburb of Rome—veterans, and fierce fellows that
— from The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Thomas De Quincey

The Missing Rifle 130 The Long and Bulky Package 131 Location of Bag 134 Scientific Evidence Linking Rifle and Oswald to Paper Bag 135 Conclusion 137 Oswald at Window 137 Palmprints and Fingerprints on Cartons and Paper Bag 140 Oswald’s Presence on Sixth Floor Approximately 35 Minutes Before the Assassination 143 Eyewitness Identification of Assassin 143 Oswald’s Actions in Building After Assassination 149 Conclusion 156
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

The gizzard was nearly filled with very minute red insects, found on Cypresses and Pines, the wings of different flies, and the heads of red ants.
— from Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5) An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America by John James Audubon

M. Armand de Montriveau, at that moment all unwittingly the object of general curiosity, better deserved attention than any of the idols that Paris needs must set up to worship for a brief space, for the city is vexed by periodical fits of craving, a passion for engouement and sham enthusiasm, which must be satisfied.
— from The Thirteen by Honoré de Balzac

[Pg 1066] were founders of churches and public institutions.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

President Hughitt announces that the Chicago and Northwestern, the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha, and the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railways will transport, free of charge, all provisions and clothing for the sufferers.
— from History of the Johnstown Flood Including all the Fearful Record; the Breaking of the South Fork Dam; the Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; the Over-Throw of Johnstown; the Massing of the Wreck at the Railroad Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Survivors and the Dead; Relief Organizations, Stupendous Charities, etc., etc., With Full Accounts also of the Destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek. by Willis Fletcher Johnson

With the advent of spring Mother Nature begins the digestion of this starch—actually turns it into sugar—and in the form of the sweet sap it finds 364 its way up into the tree trunk to be deposited in the leaves and bark in the form of cellulose, a process very similar to that performed by digestion in the human body, where starch by digestion is first turned into sugar, and afterwards deposited in another form in the liver and muscles.
— from The Mother and Her Child by William S. (William Samuel) Sadler