I think the general is pleased enough; her mother is a little uneasy.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"No he podido dar sus expresiones de usted a D. Inocencio, porque el pobrecito se
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The highest among them does not exceed three and three-quarter miles in perpendicular elevation; but a map of the volcanic districts of the Campi Phlegraei would afford to your Excellencies a better idea of their general surface than any unworthy description I might think proper to attempt.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

At bottom, man loses the belief in his own worth when no infinitely precious entity manifests itself through him—that is to say, he conceived such an All, in order to be able to believe in his own worth.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

No, no, promise!...” “I promise everything, but I can’t be at peace, especially after what you have told me.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

They are indeed perfect enough in their exercises, and under very good discipline, wherein I saw no great merit; for how should it be otherwise, where every farmer is under the command of his own landlord, and every citizen under that of the principal men in his own city, chosen after the manner of Venice, by ballot?
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Sjur Johannesen Quam Sogndal 1847 1847 Ingebret Pedersen Erdahl Hardanger 1847 1809 Anne Guttorm Johannesen Buo Hardanger 1847 1848
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

(?) The tempest never rooteth up the grass, which is feeble, humble, and shooteth not up on high; but exerteth its power even to distress the lofty trees; for the great use not their might but upon the great.
— 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.

While he is personally endeared to many of them as a friend, they consider it their high pleasure to tender to him in this resolution their regret on his separation, and their sincere wish for his future welfare."
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

A seeming exception to this rule in the case of the recent warrant to Queen Alexandra, whose arms, impaled by those of His Majesty, are depicted impaled within the Garter, is perhaps explained by the fact that Her Majesty is herself a member of that Order.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

It shall also be the duty of the owner, agent, or lessee of each of such establishments to provide or cause to be provided, if, in the opinion of the Inspector, the safety of persons in or about the premises should require it, such proper trap or automatic doors, so fastened in or at all elevator ways as to form a substantial surface when closed, and so constructed as to open and close by action of the elevator in its passage, either ascending or descending, but the requirements of this section shall not apply to passenger elevators that are closed on all sides.
— from Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future by Helen Campbell

And Beyle is perpetually evoking the gratitude of his readers in this way.
— from Books and Characters, French & English by Lytton Strachey

He was less successful 123 in plaintive elegy.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

I found a new atmosphere developing in the city which is proudly entitled the “Metropolis of the World Revolution.”
— from Red Dusk and the Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Red Russia by Paul Dukes

“My dear sprites, do you know that it is past eight!
— from Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

No Frenchman enters the room that does not bear testimony to its peculiar excellence.
— from Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Hester Lynch Piozzi

But it is perfectly evident from spiral reliefs, representing the frequent crossings of the Danube, and especially from that recording the incident of the sudden storm which extricated the Roman army from their difficulties, that the German wars of Marcus Aurelius are the subject commemorated.
— from Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the Campagna by Robert Burn

This is one of the most significant changes in the Intermediate period, because of its physical effects and its reflex influence upon the mental and emotional life.
— from Training the Teacher by Marion Lawrance

But it proved effective.
— from The American Revolution by John Fiske

Pragmatism is neither a revolt against philosophy nor a revolution in philosophy, except in so far as it is an important evolution of philosophy.
— from Pragmatism by D. L. (David Leslie) Murray