For these two were old friends, old mates both at school and college, both thorough respectors of themselves and of each other, and what does not always follow, men who thoroughly enjoyed each other’s company.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

In addition to all the reasons which have been given to justify this conception, a final one may be added here, which is the result of our whole work.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

He then produces a large wooden bowl full of dates, bearing in the midst of the heap a cup full of melted butter; all this he places on the circular mat, and says, " Semmoo ," literally, "pronounce the Name", of God, understood; this means "set to work at it."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

He slept at the foot of my bed, ate at the table in spite of the objections of my parents, and followed me in my solitary walks.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

"I shall rejoice to furnish your zeal with fuller opportunities," Mr. Bulstrode answered; "I mean, by confiding to you the superintendence of my new hospital, should a maturer knowledge favor that issue, for I am determined that so great an object shall not be shackled by our two physicians.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Though I was far enough from being of the same opinion in this particular, I confess I dared not combat hers; indeed, as I was situated, it would have been putting myself in rather awkward circumstances, since I could only have sought to establish my opinion for others, myself being an exception.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I want you to bear witness that she is turning from her door a poor wayfarer who has tramped nineteen leagues afoot; an honest lad, honored with the trust of Farmer Billet and Dr. Gilbert; who has brought Master Sebastian Gilbert here to Father Fortier’s; a conqueror of the Bastile, a friend of Mayor Bailly and General Lafayette.”
— from The Hero of the People: A Historical Romance of Love, Liberty and Loyalty by Alexandre Dumas

I had been a drake in the lotus-bush; and an elephant in the vales of Vindhya; I then became a stag in the form of my body, and fleetness of my limbs (and in the formation of mind also).
— from The Yoga-Vasishtha Maharamayana of Valmiki, vol. 3 (of 4) part 2 (of 2) by Valmiki

ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS: Among fools one must be a fool
— from A Word, Only a Word — Volume 03 by Georg Ebers

During this time Mr. Granville Sharp, pitying his hard case, supplied him with money, and afterwards got him a situation in the family of Mr. Brown, an apothecary, to carry out medicines.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

I was deeply interested and hoped that the man who could do a thing of this sort in a solemn scene like the Country Department of the Apollo Fire Office, might be a real friend to me.
— from From the Angle of Seventeen by Eden Phillpotts

If we explain the fall of man by Adam's eating the apple, we are quite unable to say why the apple should have been created.
— from Social Rights And Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies. Vol 1 [of 2] by Leslie Stephen

I could give no detail of its dress or coloring, but it was a figure of marvelous beauty, and it gazed into my eyes and shook its head.
— from The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck

Thus madi (mind) stands for one, mind being always represented in the Hindu shastras as a single thing.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

When he heard that speech of hers, the mighty hero said to her: “But here is water in my hand sent to him by the king, so place your foot on my back and lift it to his mouth, for the mere touching of another man in sore need does not disgrace a woman.”
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta