I deliberated a moment; my answer, when it did come, was objectionable: “I must keep in good health, and not die.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

He sometimes noticed with dissatisfaction that he repeated the same remark on the same day in different circles.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The task is frankly superhuman, because no block of real existence, with its infinitesimal detail, can be recorded, nor if somehow recorded could it be dominated by the mind; and to carry on a survey of this social continuum ad infinitum would multiply the difficulty.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Before concluding this subject, attention should be drawn to the fact that, in more modern times, this beautiful idea of animating all nature in detail reappears under the various local traditions extant in different countries.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

As long as the play was confined to the young men of the different embassies, His Majesty did not care to prevent it; nay, he encouraged play at all the missions, knowing full well that a man in difficulties can be made to speak, and that a timely rouleau of Frederics would often get him a secret worth many thousands.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

The legislature, were it possible that its deliberations could be always directed, not by the clamorous importunity of partial interests, but by an extensive view of the general good, ought, upon this very account, perhaps, to be particularly careful, neither to establish any new monopolies of this kind, nor to extend further those which are already established.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

My complexion is a bright snuff-colour; my eyes are grey, and unprotected by the usual verandahs of eye-lashes; my nose is retroussé , and if it has a bridge, it must be of the suspension order, for it is decidedly concave.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 by Various

In some large towns, in the months of July and August, parties of devotees may be seen wandering about the streets, and collecting offerings to the god, which will be presented to him in due course.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

ha ido anotando el importe de cada artículo comprado.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

I? ’ demanded Croker, with an air of intense and reproachful amazement ludicrous to witness.
— from A Colonial Reformer, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Rolf Boldrewood

He had the love of dropping into dim churches, of loitering on bridges, of fingering the junk in old shops, but he was considerately never late for dinner.
— from Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell

Mr. Zeisler maintained that he had shown that there was no conspiracy, no general conspiracy, and insisted that the alleged conspiracy of May 3 had no reference whatever to the Haymarket meeting; that the throwing of the bomb at the Haymarket meeting was in direct contradiction of the agreement by the conspirators of May 3, and if one of them had done it, he would have done contrary to the conspiracy.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

The means to the highest good vary with circumstances; the amount of good that is attainable in such and such circumstances varies also; consequently the right course of conduct will be different for beings differently constituted or placed under different circumstances: but the principles which, in the view of a perfect intelligence, would determine what is the right course for different beings in different circumstances will be always the same.
— from Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge by Hastings Rashdall

[The title of Pezzo's work is, Dei Cimbri Veronesi, e Vicentini , libri ii.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

"I do care," said the low voice, after a moment, as if forced to answer.
— from Anne: A Novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson

"Our Jacqueminot, I declare!" cried Phil.
— from We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Barbara Yechton

" [134] Guida Illustrata del Casentino da C. Beni : Firenze, 1889.
— from Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by William Parkinson and Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Edward Hutton

But it does cross the speaker's mind that the context of circumstances might make this an opportunity for getting at some information she wants.
— from Somehow Good by William De Morgan