As soon as he was gone, I recurr'd to my two friends; and because I would not give an unkind preference to either, I took half of what each had offered and I wanted of one, and half of the other; paid off the company's debts, and went on with the business in my own name, advertising that the partnership was dissolved.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

When Fred was riding home on winter evenings he had a pleasant vision beforehand of the bright hearth in the wainscoted parlor, and was sorry for other men who could not have Mary for their wife; especially for Mr. Farebrother.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

As reproduction circumvents mortality and preserves a semblance of permanence in the midst of change, so intent regards what is not yet, or not here, or what exists no longer.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

In realising his own will in his own way, each creature would be perfectly happy, without yearning or pathetic regrets for other forms of being.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Here and there choruses of little girls threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and applauded, the then celebrated Bourbon air, which was destined to strike the Hundred Days with lightning, and which had for its refrain:— “Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, Rendez-nous notre père.” “Give us back our father from Ghent, Give us back our father.” Groups of dwellers in the suburbs, in Sunday array, sometimes even decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the large square and the Marigny square, were playing at rings and revolving on the wooden horses; others were engaged in drinking; some journeyman printers had on paper caps; their laughter was audible.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The same person says, that a relative of the patriarch at Cannobeen, has been in the habit of writing, every week or two, to the college, to give the news of what was done with Asaad from time to time, in which he spoke of his chains and stripes , and so on.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

"If a person believes he knows nothing concerning experiences, the memory of which, however, he retains," you might say, "it is no longer so improbable that there are also other psychic experiences within him of whose existence he is ignorant.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

The visits to the church were festive occasions, but among the fisherman's house one was especially looked forward to; this was, in fact, the visit of the brother of Jurgen's foster-mother, the eel-breeder from Fjaltring, near Bovbjerg.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

pressing his own with emotion.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

When the patron awoke, the vessel was hurrying on with every sail set, and every sail full with the breeze.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

When [pg 105] IMG Raleigh, in honor of whom England should have changed its name, introduced tobacco into this country, the glorious Elizabethan age began.
— from My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

The Governor found it prudent to comply, and the too hasty officer was executed.
— from English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by James Anthony Froude

One had occurred when Ercole ascended the throne.
— from Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius

The piety of the people seems remarkable; some of the inns even will not receive travellers on Sunday; and this is written in an hotel, of which every room is provided with a Testament, containing an injunction on the part of the landlord to consider this world itself as only a passing abode.
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

While in reading the Gospels—particularly that of St. John himself, or whatever early Gnostic took his name and mantle—I see the continual assertion of the imagination as the basis of all spiritual and material life, I see also that to Christ imagination was simply a form of love, and that to him love was lord in the fullest meaning of the phrase.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

Quite evident is it that, besides Gregory of Nyssa, Hesychius (or whoever else was the author of the first Homily on the Resurrection) had the same original before him when he wrote as follows:—ἀλλ᾽ ἐπειδὴ
— from The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by John William Burgon

As Lancy sat by his open window enjoying the quiet scene without, the sound of their voices reached his ears.
— from Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces by Stanford Eveleth

Tiberius .—The complaint of Caligula was most wicked of the condition of his times, when he said they were not famous for any public calamity, as the reign of Augustus was, by the defeat of Varus and the legions; and that of Tiberius, by the falling of the theatre at Fidenæ; whilst his oblivion was eminent through the prosperity of his affairs.
— from Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems by Ben Jonson

[244] Shut in alone by winter he takes counsel with himself on what excuse to end their separation.
— from Essays on the Greek Romances by Elizabeth Hazelton Haight

An introduction to the history of Western Europe.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1962 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office