Do not, therefore, discompose yourself on the subject, and be assured that in every case where I know that your happiness and peace are involved, I shall invariably place entire confidence in you, my kind father and true friend, and detail everything to you minutely.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

An inexpressibly painful expression came over his face.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Of this tyranny of jealousy read more in Parthenius Erot. cap.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

( b. ) quantō in perīculō et castra et legiōnēs et imperātor versārētur , 2, 26, 5, in what imminent peril camp and legions and commander were involved .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The theory of chance: the soul is a selecting and self-nourishing being, which is persistently extremely clever and creative (this creative power is commonly overlocked!
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Until, then, kings are philosophers, or philosophers are kings, cities will never cease from ill: no, nor the lxxvii human race; nor will our ideal polity ever come into being.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Until, then, kings are philosophers, or philosophers are kings, cities will never cease from ill: no, nor the human race; nor will our ideal polity ever come into being.
— from The Republic by Plato

where rich invention, proper expression, correct design, divine attitudes, and artful contrast, heightened with the beauties of Clar.
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

The experts in physiology even claim that they can compute how often a man of sixty has changed his flesh, bones, skin, and hair.
— from The Positive Outcome of Philosophy The Nature of Human Brain Work. Letters on Logic. by Joseph Dietzgen

Illustrated POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW Edited by Mary E. Burt PROSE
— from Left End Edwards by Ralph Henry Barbour

But he scratched his head in perplexity, eyeing Corrigan sidelong.
— from 'Firebrand' Trevison by Charles Alden Seltzer

Moreover, I fulfilled pulpit engagements in practically every church and organization in Humboldt County.
— from Fifteen Years with the Outcast by Fflorens Roberts

In February 2007, the government restructured nearly all of its public external commercial debt, which will reduce interest payments and relieve liquidity concerns.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

It possesses every comfort and convenience, is admirably managed, and has a well-informed and most obliging landlord.
— from The Story of Majorca and Minorca by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

"In plain English, come down to Wray House and assist me to question this young lady about the hat."
— from The Red-headed Man by Fergus Hume

Nature seemed so perfectly peaceful here that it was the very antithesis of those sections of the city in which he had found the gunman, whoever he was, indulging in practically every crime and vice of decadent civilization.
— from Guy Garrick by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve