So long as the link does not go in the other direction, however, I see no immediate problem with this.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

I sat down beside her, assumed a pedantically serious attitude, and began as though reading from a manuscript:— "There are, Nastenka, though you may not know it, strange nooks in Petersburg.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Without consulting them on all occasions I shall never inflict punishment.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Whenever the joy of that day comes back to me, even now, I realise why rhyme is so needful in poetry.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

I don't believe in suicide, nor in pure accident, myself.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

To commence making the coats, take a long needleful of warp-thread and secure the end of it to the string at the right-hand end, and then make about three small looped stitches upon it (see needle in progress in the diagram); next, instead of making another of the same stitches, take the thread down below the stave, let it encircle the first thread of the back leaf and then be brought up over the coat-stave and string and be [Pg 334] looped under the thread to complete the stitch (see B).
— from Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving by Grace Christie

"Well, Martha," he answered, "I found the girl with you when we were married, and as you claim her as yours, I shall not interpose [Pg 29] any objections to the disposal of what you choose to call your property, in any manner you see fit, and I will make arrangements for selling her at once."
— from From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom by Lucy A. (Lucy Ann) Delaney

I saw none in particular, and said so.
— from The Cruise of the Dream Ship by Ralph Stock

The railroad up the Des Moines valley from Keokuk had been located some three or four miles north of the town of Keosauqua, and I saw no immediate prospect of any improvement or growth in the town.
— from Autobiography of Charles Clinton Nourse Prepared for use of Members of the Family by Charles Clinton Nourse

The similarity of action, almost amounting to identity, between common magnets and either electro-magnets or volta-electric currents, is strikingly in accordance with and confirmatory of M. Ampère's theory, and furnishes powerful reasons for believing that the action is the same in both cases; but, as a distinction in language is still necessary, I propose to call the agency thus exerted by ordinary magnets, magneto-electric or magnelectric induction (26).
— from Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

For those who feel that the new Altruism may fully replace the old charity, and that people can derive just as much good from the stirring of their sympathies from merely humanitarian motives as they can from religious love of their neighbor, President Schurman of Cornell said some things that are very interesting: "It is a blessed characteristic of our own age that {83} religion has come to express itself so nobly in practical well-doing.
— from Religion And Health by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh