At the same time animal economy has playful manifestations concerned with outer things, such as burrowing or collecting objects.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Pulcheria alone discharged the important task of instructing her brother in the arts of government; but her precepts may countenance some suspicions of the extent of her capacity, or of the purity of her intentions.
— 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

He can't bless you while you have one falsehood in your soul; his pardoning mercy can't reach you until you open your heart to him, and say, 'I have done this great wickedness; O God, save me, make me pure from sin.'
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

When he had mounted his phaeton, Monte Cristo turned, and seeing Bertuccio, “What news?” said he.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

This done, I would have paid my compliments to the ladies, and walked off like a great booby as I was, but after whispering each other, Mademoiselle de G—— said, “No, no, you must not think to escape thus; you have got wet in our service, and we ought in conscience to take care and dry you.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

“And furthermore,” he proceeded, “M. Casanova’s suspicion that you were going to assassinate him is justified by your giving a false name, for the plaintiff maintains that you are not Count Marazzani at all.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Panurge having been acquainted with this by Pantagruel, said to him in his ear, I swear and vow, sir, ‘tis even so; he that has patience may compass anything.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Her beloved father, so utterly simple in his demeanour, yet with his strong, dark soul fixed like a root in unexpressed depths that fascinated and terrified her: her mother, so strangely free of all money and convention and fear, entirely indifferent to the world, standing by herself, without connection: her grandmother, who had come from so far and was centred in so wide an horizon: people must come up to these standards before they could be Ursula's people.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

"And you have preserved my caste, presented my ostracism from the community, and patted me on the back affectionately!" said Peari Sankar with a slight sarcastic smile.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

For two reasons: Johnson is discussing a school of poetry which has provoked much comment, and that particular Life abounds in quotations upon which Johnson exercises his critical abilities.
— from Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Samuel Johnson

She knew that sooner or later this completion of his possibilities must come, that the present steadfastness of purpose was a phase in which forces gathered, that love must sweep into his life as a deep and passionate disturbance.
— from Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

However, before leaving this lurid argument, I ought to say, for the love of truth, that ancient and modern history register some exceedingly rare cases of union between old women and [Pg 93] young men, in which neither the desires of the flesh nor the thirst for gold entered at all; they treat of intellectual unions in which the concord of souls, the sympathy of hearts and thoughts, the harmony of taste, the affinity of humane propositions, most charmingly unite two persons whom the difference in age would generally divide.
— from The art of taking a wife by Paolo Mantegazza

Once he thought he had persuaded M. Clemenceau, a Radical leader, to form a ministry; but his party gave him to understand that they would not support him.
— from France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer

These heated partisans may continue to attack and calumniate my person as they will; they will not hurt the sacred cause of truth in which I labor.
— from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel

It had been his perpetual menacing companion.
— from The Four Feathers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

It is true, it has cost me ten shillings for a coach, to raise which, I have pawned my cloathes; but that I regard not, since I am now in a situation to serve my king, whom I wish God to bless, also his precious queen, who, under the blessing of a king above, hath produced a progeny which has presaged a happy omen to this country.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

He passed me close."
— from The Loudwater Mystery by Edgar Jepson

Breathless in her panic, Mrs. Chump assured him she was a howling beggar, and the smell of a scent was like a crool blow to her; above all, the smell of Alderman's Bouquet, which Chump—“tell'n a lie, ye know, Mr. Braintop, said was after him.
— from Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete by George Meredith