I felt convinced, after due consideration, that the act she had been guilty of with me had been deliberately done, and that her feelings of repentance kept her away from me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In the king's fond opinion raise Kaikeyí, by respect and praise.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

It arises from this peculiar nature of scientific completeness, that the aim of science is not greater certainty—for certainty may be possessed in just as high a degree by the most disconnected particular knowledge—but its aim is rather the facilitating of rational knowledge by means of its form, and the possibility of the completeness of rational knowledge which this form affords.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Wait!' Amazed at the lama's immense simplicity (he had handed him a small bag full of rupees), Kim asked and paid for a ticket to Umballa.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

He also compiled a form of ritual known by his name.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

In some parts of Western Africa two kings reign side by side, a fetish or religious king and a civil king, but the fetish king is really supreme.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

During the long time that Friday had now been with me, and that he began to speak to me, and understand me, I was not wanting to lay a foundation of religious knowledge in his mind; particularly I asked him one time, who made him.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

He picked up a clean pine shingle that lay in the moon-light, took a little fragment of “red keel” out of his pocket, got the moon on his work, and painfully scrawled these lines, emphasizing each slow down-stroke by clamping his tongue between his teeth, and letting up the pressure on the up-strokes.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

It Was A' For Our Rightfu' King It was a' for our rightfu' King We left fair Scotland's strand; It was a' for our rightfu' King We e'er saw Irish land, my dear, We e'er saw Irish land.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Underhandedly they did what they could to allay the storm which was raging—encouraging Mr. Haywood, Mr. Benton, and others to speak; but the pride of consistency, and the fear of reproach, kept them in the background, and even ostensibly in favor of 54-40, while encouraging the events which would enable them to settle on 49.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

Not much, indeed, but still enough to give a terrible foundation of real knowledge to my speculations.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Thomas Henry Huxley

A general feeling of repulsion, kept within bounds partly by the absence of any overt act from Bulger, and partly by an inconsistent over-consciousness of his shotgun, took its place.
— from Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Bret Harte

This path which it follows to knowledge, the path from the general to the particular, distinguishes it from ordinary rational knowledge; therefore, systematic form is an essential and characteristic feature of science.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Till we the deep prelusive strain have pour'd To the Great Father, only Rightful king, All Gracious Father, king Omnipotent!
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He picked up a clean pine shingle that lay in the moon-light, took a little fragment of "red keel" out of his pocket, got the moon on his work, and painfully scrawled these lines, emphasizing each slow down-stroke by clamping his tongue between his teeth, and letting up the pressure on the up-strokes.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Part 3. by Mark Twain

Has the minister, as a thinker and active force of regeneration, kept pace with this advance?
— from The Warriors by Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay