Very well, then; here's this warrant got by Mr. Tulkinghorn of Lincoln's Inn Fields, and backed into half-a-dozen counties since.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

It was high, and her feet could not reach the ground, but must rest on the step.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

In the year 1630, Sionita published at Paris the text and version of Mahomet's patent in favor of the Christians; which was admitted and reprobated by the opposite taste of Salmasius and Grotius, (Bayle, Mahomet, Rem. Aa.)
— 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

I never much regretted sleep I strove to flatter my idleness I never heard her speak ill of persons who were absent I loved her too well to wish to possess her I felt no dread but that of being detected I was long a child, and am so yet in many particulars I am charged with the care of myself only I only wished to avoid giving offence I did not fear punishment, but I dreaded shame I had a numerous acquaintance, yet no more than two friends Idea of my not being everything to her Idleness is as much the pest of society as of solitude If you have nothing to do, you must absolutely speak continually In the course of their lives frequently unlike themselves In company I suffer cruelly by inaction In a nation of blind men, those with one eye are kings Indolence, negligence and delay in little duties to be fulfilled Indolence of company is burdensome because it is forced Injustice of mankind which embitters both life and death Insignificant trash that has obtained the name of education Instead of being delighted with the journey only wished arrival Is it possible to dissimulate with persons whom we love? Jean Bapiste Rousseau Knew how to complain, but not how to act Law that the accuser should be confined at the same time Left to nature the whole care of my own instruction Less degree of repugnance in divulging what is really criminal Letters illustrious in proportion as it was less a trade Loaded with words and redundancies Looking on each day as the last of my life Love of the marvellous is natural to the human heart Make men like himself, instead of taking them as they were Making their knowledge the measure of possibilities Making me sensible of every deficiency Manoeuvres of an author to the care of publishing a good book Men, in general, make God like themselves Men of learning more tenaciously retain their predjudices Mistake wit for sense
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As I got back my senses by degrees, I tried to make myself believe that the hand I fancied I had touched was a mere creature of my disordered imagination; and with this idea I stretched out my hand again, and again with the same result.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I am older than either of you; therefore be guided by me.
— from The Iliad by Homer

“You are saving me, Alexandr Daviditch, and I swear to you by God, by my happiness and anything you like, I’ll send you the money as soon as I arrive.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Then, there were gardens, courtyards, terraces, fountains, green banks, more King and Queen, more Bull's Eye, more lords and ladies, more Long live they all!
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

" Other early papers published at the town of Niagara were the Gleaner , by Mr. Heron; the Reporter ; the Spectator .
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

'Tis his main hope: For where there is advantage to be given, Both more and less have given him the revolt; And none serve with him but constrained things, Whose hearts are absent too.
— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Yes, there are wicked men about LIFE OF JOHN OF BARNEVELD, 1618-19 by Motley[#96][jm96v10.txt]4896 Better to be governed by magistrates than mobs Burning with bitter revenge for all the favours he had received Death rather than life with a false acknowledgment of guilt Enemy of all compulsion of the human conscience Heidelberg Catechism were declared to be infallible
— from Quotations from John L. Motley Works by John Lothrop Motley

Provided I gain but my six dirhems a day, I have no objection to become a mollah."
— from The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat

TELEGRAM TO GENERAL G. B. McCLELLAN.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

Never had the Gilpins been more busy.
— from The Gilpins and their Fortunes: A Story of Early Days in Australia by William Henry Giles Kingston

On the next morning I made him color bearer, and undertook to thank him for his gallantry, but my eyes filled and voice choked, and I was unable to articulate a word.
— from The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by John Beatty

“Three rings down, or I shut the gate.” “Be merciful,” said the woman, weeping.
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Complete by Georg Ebers

You can see that a great battle must be a grand and terrible affair; but though you may use all your powers of imagination [Pg 36] in endeavoring to picture the positions of the troops,—how they look, how they act, how they stand amid the terrible storm, braying death, how they rush into the thickest fire, how they fall like the sere leaves of autumn,—you will fail in your conceptions of the conflict.
— from My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field by Charles Carleton Coffin