After I had had my effects carried up I saw my man, whose face pleased me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

All I know is that briefly, but earnestly enough, I thanked Providence for preserving me so far.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

But I cannot remember any instance in which this feeling prevented me from repeating the naughtiness when I failed to get what I wanted.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

In the next place, admitting that a person who, from his narrow range of cultivation, can not judge well of the qualifications of a candidate for Parliament, may be a sufficient judge of the honesty and general capacity of somebody whom he may depute to choose a member of Parliament for him, I may remark, that if the voter acquiesces in this estimate of his capabilities, and really wishes to have the choice made for him by a person in whom he places reliance, there is no need of any constitutional provision for the purpose; he has only to ask this confidential person privately what candidate he had better vote for.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

St. Anthonies, an hospital of thirteen poor men, and college, with a free school for poor men’s children, founded by citizens of London, lately by John Tate, first a brewer and then a mercer, in the ward of Broad street, suppressed in the reign of Edward VI., the school in some sort remaining, but sore decayed.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

In 1719 he officially despatched the surveyors Yevrinoff and Lushin to ascertain whether Asia and America were connected, but secretly he instructed them to go to the Kurile Islands to search for precious metals, especially a white mineral which the Japanese were said to obtain in [Pg 18] large quantities from the fifth or sixth island.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

First promise me—give me your word—that what I now confide in you Thea shall never know.
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

Σπυρίς , ίδος, ἡ, a basket, handbasket for provisions, Mat. 15.37; 16.10. Mar. 8.8, 20.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

The puzzle of making a complete tour of the chessboard with the queen in the fewest possible moves (in which squares may be visited more than once) was first given by the late Sam Loyd Pg 99 in his Chess Strategy .
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

The right of association with these views is very analogous to the liberty of unlicensed writing; but societies thus formed possess more authority than the press.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

They've given us five pounds more steam"; and he began humming the first bars of "Said the Young Obadiah to the Old Obadiah," which, as you may have noticed, is a pet tune among engines not built for high speed.
— from Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II by Rudyard Kipling

The franking privilege may reasonably be considered in connection with the history of postal rates, nor should its effect in reducing the revenue of the Post Office be neglected.
— from The History of the British Post Office by Joseph Clarence Hemmeon

I find it very convenient not to have it made all of one plate of glass, but to divide it so that about four plates make the whole easel of five feet high.
— from Stained Glass Work: A text-book for students and workers in glass by Christopher Whall

In almes frank, of conscience cleare; In grace with prince, to people glad; His vertuous wife, his faithful peere, Margaret , this monument hath made; Meaning (through God) that as shee had With him (in house) long lived well; Even so in Tombes Blisse to dwell."
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

King of the Two Sicilies, vi. 202 Ferdinand of Prussia, Prince, ii. 289; iv. 34 Ferdinand Victor of Modena, Archduke, iv. 251 Ferrand, Antoine François Claude Comte, iii. 110 Ferrari, the supercargo, v. 244 Ferrero Della Marmora (see Delia Marmora) Ferron de La Sigonnière, François Prudent Malo, ii. 48, 54-55 Ferronnays (see La Ferronnays) Ferronnière (see Du Bois de La Ferronnière) Feryd-Eddyn-Atthar, i. 259 Fesch, Archbishop of Lyons, Joseph Cardinal Comte, ii. 213-214, 219, 221-222, 230, 237, 246-248; iii. 64 , 215 - 216 ; iv. 238; v. 6, 30, 44-45, 52, 293 Feuchères, Madame de, i. 59 Feuillade (see La Feuillade) Feuquières, Manassés de Pas, Marquis, de, ii. 40 Feutrier, Bishop of Beauvais, François Jean Hyacinthe Comte, iv. 139, 304 Fézensac (see Montesquiou-Fézensac) Fielding, Henry, ii. 125 Fiévée, Joseph, i. 97 Fieschi, Joseph Marie, v. 101 Figeac (see Champollion Figeac)
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

72 palaces, into the horrible void; an enormous country it was, exceedingly deep and dark—without order and without inhabitants—now hot, now cold—sometimes silent, sometimes noisy, with the sound caused by cataracts of water tumbling upon the flames and extinguishing them; which cataracts, however, did not long continue, for presently might be seen a puff of fire bursting out and consuming the water.
— from The Sleeping Bard; Or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell by Ellis Wynne

They are Mr. Jenning's Old Druid, Colonel Cowen's Druid, Mr. Reynold Ray's Roswell, and Captain Clayton's Luath XI.; and the owner of a Bloodhound which can be traced back in direct line of descent to any one of these four patriarchs may pride himself upon possessing a dog of unimpeachable pedigree.
— from Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton