An added mixture of irritability and animosity in his feelings leads us to suspect that the mother-in-law actually represents an incest temptation for the son-in-law, just as it not infrequently happens that a man falls in love with his subsequent mother-in-law before his inclination is transferred to her daughter.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

WHAT WETHERUP SAID All very fine to jeer at it now in cold print
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

But the Emperor, when strength and daring are required, employs force of arms and good counsel together, and so wins the day, but where good judgment alone is necessary it is by this that he steers his course, and thus achieves triumphs such as not even iron could ever avail to erase.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

All the same, I am supposed to be deeply in love with her, and even jealous, as I never introduce anyone to her, and do not allow her to receive any visitors.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

If he accepts, they will give us justice; and if not, I’ll be the first to fall in the struggle that we will begin.” “Elias will not die, Elias will be the leader when Capitan Pablo fails, satisfied in his revenge,” concluded the old man, as he accompanied the youth out of the cave into the open air.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

'You won't make any more jokes about it now, I think!'
— from The Joy of Life [La joie de vivre] by Émile Zola

The death of Conde gave to the battle of Jarnac an importance not its own.
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by François Guizot

Just as it neared it, some Indians who had been fishing in a canoe overtook it; and weak from loss of blood, it was killed by a few blows from their paddles.
— from Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading by William Henry Giles Kingston

If he has any faith whatever he believes, perhaps, in fraternity,—at least in the sentiment humanity; and if not in the sentiment humanity, then in justice; and if not in justice, then surely in science; and he cannot help knowing all the while that the conditions of his life are opposed to every principle of Christianity, humanity, justice, and science.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

If God's love for us, manifested in the utterly real and [Pg 83] suffering love of Jesus, and in no insipid fancy of our sentimental moments, wins its way past our guard and over the barriers of self, hatred of sin and sorrow for sin will follow.
— from Thoughts on religion at the front by N. S. (Neville Stuart) Talbot

I must really mark down here as a curiosity the "Crucifige," just as I noted it at the time:— [ Listen ] The "Barabbam" too is most singular;—very tame Jews indeed!
— from Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Dearest Emily had taken up the note with fears and trembling: she laid it down, as they that reap in joy; and I never in my life saw any thing so beautiful as her eyes at that glad minute; the smile through the tear, the light through the gloom, the verdure of high summer springing through the Alpine snows, the mild and lustrous moon emerging from a baffled thunder-cloud.
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper

"And ane that," continued Jock, as if not interrupted, "has strength tae watch wi' leevin' man or woman,--what wad ye say tae sic a canny nurse as that?"
— from The Starling: A Scottish Story by Norman Macleod

dies before his Father , 4 John, Don, of Austria , natural Son to Philip IV. King of Spain , and General of the Troops sent against Portugal , 127 Julian, an Italian Nobleman, invites the Moors into Spain , 2 L. Lemos, a Merchant of Lisbon , and an Instrument of the Revolution , 43 Lewis de Camara, a Jesuit, Tutor to Don Sebastian , 4 Lewis de Castile, is sent by the Duke of Medina to the Marquiss Daiamonti , 92 .
— from The Revolutions of Portugal by abbé de Vertot