Here then we have a second Intuitional Method: of which the fundamental assumption is that we can discern certain general rules with really clear and finally valid intuition.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Nor did the counting-house where Herbert assisted, show in my eyes as at all a good Observatory; being a back second floor up a yard, of a grimy presence in all particulars, and with a look into another back second floor, rather than a look out.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The diamonds were sewed into her habit, and secreted in my Lord's padding and boots.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Nay, I’ll have a starling shall be taught to speak Nothing but Mortimer, and give it him, To keep his anger still in motion.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

All these delays had already succeeded in making it impossible to perform my opera at the date originally fixed, and now it was postponed until August of the current year (1834).
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

There is so hot a summer in my bosom That all my bowels crumble up to dust.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Or, a female beggar, in league with the King's wife, should say to the woman desired by the King, and whose husband may have lost his wealth, or may have some cause of fear from the King: "This wife of the King has influence over him, and she is, moreover, naturally kind-hearted, we must therefore go to her in this matter.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

He then gave me the address of the French teacher to whom he had already spoken in my behalf.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Barruel, however, explains that Saint-Germain in thus referring to his age spoke in masonic language, in which a man who has taken the first degree is said to be three years old, after the second five, or the third seven, so that by means of the huge increase the higher degrees conferred it might be quite possible for an exalted adept to attain the age of 1,500.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

This association was organized in 1816, and soon had auxiliary societies in most of the states.
— from The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history by Wilbur Henry Siebert

Every child in the public schools had a share in making the Victory Park.
— from The Chinese Kitten by Edna A. Brown

The first part of the Fantasie opens with a poetical sketch, in which the author represents himself as sunk in melancholy meditation, and endeavouring to find relief from the heavy burthen which the intrigues and disappointments of Court life have cast upon him:— fforweriéd
— from In Byways of Scottish History by Louis A. Barbé

My armchair was empty, appeared empty, but I knew that He was there, He, and sitting in my place, and that He was reading.
— from A Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. I by Guy de Maupassant

He almost succeeded in making a great nation out of a horde of superstitious robbers.
— from Phyllis of Philistia by Frank Frankfort Moore

“I think I have a stone in my foot,” said Bob, making a wry face.
— from The Motor Boys Across the Plains; or, The Hermit of Lost Lake by Clarence Young

“Even so,” said I, clapping him on the shoulders, my spirits rising higher, it seemed, with every fresh attempt to depress them,—“Even so, my good fellow; and therefore since my wife I mean to have, and since I mean to live to be happy with her, what say you to our carrying her off this very night?”
— from The Pride of Jennico: Being a Memoir of Captain Basil Jennico by Egerton Castle

'For often have you writ to her; and she, in modesty, Or else for want of idle time, could not again reply; Or fearing else some messenger that might her mind discover, Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto her lover.'
— from Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare

* The meetings of the Fire Brigade were held after school in Mr. Downing's form room.
— from Mike and Psmith by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse