They express the consciousness that you have no enemy to punish, but that you have pain; the consciousness that in spite of all possible Wagenheims you are in complete slavery to your teeth; that if someone wishes it, your teeth will leave off aching, and if he does not, they will go on aching another three months; and that finally if you are still contumacious and still protest, all that is left you for your own gratification is to thrash yourself or beat your wall with your fist as hard as you can, and absolutely nothing more.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Why, I don't know," Mr. George interposes, "that the young woman need give herself that trouble, for to tell you the truth, I am not inclined to smoke it to-day."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Go in there to your playmates!"
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In him what glory is there, that ye should worship him?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

“My dear,” said the old man gently, “I think that you are repeating what you have heard older people say.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Looking back upon the past she felt that she had made a mistake and lost more than she had gained in those three years.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Generally in the third year takes place the ceremony of tonsure ( chūḍā-karaṇa ), when the boy’s hair was cut, one or more tufts being left on the top, so that his hair might be worn after the fashion prevailing in his family.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

The children were early prejudiced against Christianity by their home teacher, who read to them the story about Jesus as given in the "Toldoth Yeshu."
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

I called at old Speck's house and apologized for my clumsiness, with the most admirable coolness; I appeared at court, and stated calmly that I did not intend to dance any more; and when Klingenspohr grinned, I told that young gentleman such a piece of my mind as led to his wearing a large sticking-plaster patch on his nose: which was split as neatly down the middle as you would split an
— from The Fitz-Boodle Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray

I would have remembered, but at that time it just hit me, and I said, “That is the guy I talked to yesterday afternoon.”
— from Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

And especially it would have been the very greatest injustice to the younger officer, who has been our partisan from the first.”
— from Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

I came to the bay at last, more dead than alive; and at the first glance I thought the yard was something farther out than when I left it.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 10 by Robert Louis Stevenson

If we allow the trees even a hundred years to grow, before they are large enough to cut, [Pg 176] that would give, in two thousand years, time to cut them off and let them grow up again twenty times."
— from Rollo on the Rhine by Jacob Abbott

It's over and done now, and you've got it to tell your friends.”
— from On Horseback by Charles Dudley Warner

Just you give your life to the Lord Jesus, and He will show you what the losing it means, and the gaining it, too." "Thank you.
— from The End of a Coil by Susan Warner

33 If the gymnasium is to train young men for science, people now say there can be no more pre
— from We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If nations had then possessed the technical skill which they have to-day, it is quite on the cards that France in the Hundred Years or Germany in the Thirty Years War, would have been emptied of its folk.
— from In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Maurice Hewlett