There is another task I must undertake first.
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

The Lancashire boiler is much used in factories and (in a modified form) on ships, since it is a steady steamer and is easily kept in order.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

“But surely all this is most unusual?” put in Julius.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

Now the power of the mind is defined by knowledge only, and its infirmity or passion is defined by the privation of knowledge only: it therefore follows, that that mind is most passive, whose greatest part is made up of inadequate ideas, so that it may be characterized more readily by its passive states than by its activities: on the other hand, that mind is most active, whose greatest part is made up of adequate ideas, so that, although it may contain as many inadequate ideas as the former mind, it may yet be more easily characterized by ideas attributable to human virtue, than by ideas which tell of human infirmity.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

But after this I won’t, if it makes her imagine I’m wrong in my upper story.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Before we make election, give me leave To show some reason, of no little force, That York is most unmeet of any man.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

While I meditated upon man’s nature, I seemed to discover two distinct principles in it; one of them raised him to the study of the eternal truths, to the love of justice, and of true morality, to the regions of the world of thought, which the wise delight to contemplate; the other led him downwards to himself, made him the slave of his senses, of the passions which are their instruments, and thus opposed everything suggested to him by the former principle.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

This shows us what is meant, for Saghrí is just our word Shagreen , and is applied to a fine leather granulated in that way, which is much used for boots and the like by the people of Central Asia.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

"My mind is made up," he said at last, slowly and quietly; "I know what I want, and I think that I have found it.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve....
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

I made up poetry.
— from The Story of the Gadsbys by Rudyard Kipling

It must be remembered that the high notes seem to us to produce some sort of resonance in the head and the deep notes in the thorax: this perception, whether real or illusory, has undoubtedly had some effect in making us reckon the intervals vertically.
— from Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness by Henri Bergson

His grand-daughter is my uncle’s wife, and they dwell by the Temple.”
— from The Armourer's Prentices by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Even if so carried, it should have been pursued, and reclaimed, and made an archive in the Department: and this, not having been done by the President, was proposed to be done by the Senate; and this motion submitted: "Also, that it be instructed to obtain, if possible, the ' private letter ' from London, quoted in Mr. Upshur's first despatch on the Texas negotiation, and supposed by the President to have been carried away among his private papers; and to ascertain the name of the writer of said letter."
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

[1467] Spanish piety, in fact, occasionally manifested itself in somewhat grotesque form, as in certain images on linen of the Christ-child, in military uniforms, the suppression of which was ordered in 1619.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

The Meeting not only provided no play opportunities, but it forbade the attendance of its members upon the "frollicks," which then were held, as nowadays they are held, in the country side.
— from Quaker Hill A Sociological Study by Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson

So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shewn to be very insignificant.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell