And, thinking of his empty room, clean and sad, where no one but himself ever entered, a feeling of distress filled his soul; and the place seemed to him more mournful even than his little office.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Neb, who was bending over him, spoke, but the engineer did not appear to hear, and his eyes remained closed.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

For how in that case would the words hold good, "Who entereth into the house of a strong one to spoil his goods, unless first he shall have bound the strong one?" Consequently this verse seems to compel us to believe that during that time, short as it is, no one will be added to the Christian community, but that the devil will make war with those who have previously become Christians, and that, though some of these may be conquered and desert to the devil, these do not belong to the predestinated number of the sons of God: For it is not without reason that John, the same apostle as wrote this Apocalypse, says in his epistle regarding certain persons, "They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us."
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

In 1851 he embraced Roman Catholicism and set about to improve the tone of the Catholic press and the condition of the Catholics of Silesia.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet —When a disaster happens, every report confirming it obtains ready credence.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

"And how is your mama, Caddy?" said I. "Why, I hear of her, Esther," replied Caddy, "through Pa, but I see very little of her.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

“Fortunately, sire,” said M. de Blacas, “we can rely on the army; your majesty knows how every report confirms their loyalty and attachment.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

If we have this distinction in view we can explain how a gratification may dissatisfy the man who sensibly feels it ( e.g. the joy of a needy but well-meaning man at becoming the heir of an affectionate but penurious father); or how a deep grief may satisfy the person experiencing it (the sorrow of a widow at the death of her excellent husband); or how a gratification can in addition satisfy (as in the sciences that we pursue); or how a grief ( e.g. hatred, envy, revenge) can moreover dissatisfy.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

I do not suppose she had ever really cared for her husband, and what I had taken for love was no more than the feminine response to caresses and comfort which in the minds of most women passes for it.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Religion confined itself to this life; after death, it was held, even religion came to an end.
— from History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies

The reorganization of the civil social order 69 Division of labor 69 Resumption of normal activities 70 State and voluntary associations 71 Order of reëstablishment 71 Effects of environmental change 75 The play of imitation 77 The stimulus of lookers-on 78 Social conservation 79 CHAPTER V Catastrophe and Social Economy The contribution of social service 80 Its four-fold character 83 The principles of relief 85 Rehabilitation 86 Phases of application 87 Criticisms 92 A new principle 95 Social results 96 Summary for future guidance 97 CHAPTER VI Catastrophe and Social Legislation Governmental agencies in catastrophe 102 What seems to be expected of governments 103 What they actually do 103 Social legislation 104 A permanent contribution 109 CHAPTER VII Catastrophe and Social Surplus Mill's explanation of the rapidity with which communities recover from disaster 111 The case of San Francisco 111 The case of Halifax 112 Social surplus 112 The equipmental factors 113 Correlation of tragedy in catastrophe with generosity of public response 114 Catastrophe insurance 116 A practical step 117 CHAPTER VIII Catastrophe and Social Change The unchanging Halifax of the years 118 The causes of social immobility 119 The new birthday 122 The indications of change—appearance, expansion of business, population, political action, city-planning, housing, health, education, recreation, community spirit 123 Carsten's prophecy 140 CHAPTER IX Conclusion Recapitulation 141 The various steps in the study presented in propositional form 142 The rôle of catastrophe 145 Index 147 “This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning.
— from Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster by Samuel Henry Prince

It is because they too often do not have what every mother ought to have: education, rest, change, a Sabbath-day, individual income, intellectual interests, society.
— from The Warriors by Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

There is no scale of rates universally chargeable in Holland; each railway company is authorised by the Concession under which the railway was constructed to charge certain specified rates.
— from Railway Rates: English and Foreign by James Grierson

It 208 is doubtful if he had ever really considered the fact that these four thousand human beings were wholly dependent upon him for their very existence.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

The new gaol is barely completed, is of pentagonal shape, and has eighteen radiating cells of a pattern approved by some wiseacre in England, who thinks that to prevent a man from seeing his fellowmen is not the way to drive him mad.
— from For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

On his extreme right Cissey occupied the Vanves gate and lined the whole railway of the west.
— from History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagaray

The old man was no longer sensible to anything that was said, and though he talked continually, it was but with the mutterings of delirium, while his eye ranged coldly round the chamber, and seemed to see strange sights.
— from Arabella Stuart: A Romance from English History by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Scripturam nostram honorant et reuerentur: Christianos diligunt, et Ecclesias faciunt plures.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02 by Richard Hakluyt

The face was that of a youth with flowing locks and a falling collar of lace; but Jane was too honourable to let her eyes rest consciously upon what was evidently hid from her.
— from The Lion's Whelp: A Story of Cromwell's Time by Amelia E. Barr