Black's judgment in this instance I believe to be faulty.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

He jumped into the pond to drown himself once and then changed his mind and swum out again.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Very close, marvelling and exceedingly joyful in their discoveries, his hands pressed upon her, so subtly, so seekingly, so finely and desirously searching her out, that she too was almost swooning in the absolute of sensual knowledge.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

If good is good, it must be good in the depth of our heart as well as in our actions; and the first reward of justice is the consciousness that we are acting justly.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Now, Jack, is there anything you would like?" The youth pondered for a moment.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

He was a beautiful man, a lovely man, and was just intended to make a wife and children happy.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Illinois, which gave to the world the immortal heroes, Lincoln, Grant and Logan, trailed its banner of justice in the dust—dyed its hands red in the blood of a man not proven guilty of crime.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Day after day I gazed upon Michael Angelo’s ‘Last [ 428 ] Judgment’ in the Sistine Chapel.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Je allseitiger, je individueller —The more universal a man is, the greater he is as an individual.
— 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.

It has nearly killed me not to have a penny to send them all summer, and this came just in time.
— from Quin by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

He was greatly disappointed because Washington, whom he had pronounced at first "purely and zealously republican," had been so frequently influenced by Hamilton and Knox in the Cabinet, by John Adams in the Senate, and by John Jay in the Supreme Court.
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks

For some occult reason, known only to Brixton and Peckham Rye, a hero is the person who jumps into the Thames and pulls a woman out, or the interesting inanity of a popular serial.
— from An Ocean Tramp by William McFee

Mr. Hampton obediently poured water from the jar into the cup, and set the latter to his lips.
— from The Radio Boys Seek the Lost Atlantis by Gerald Breckenridge

Several Italian geologists, even before the time of Brocchi, had justly inferred that 119 the Apennines were elevated several thousand feet above the level of the Mediterranean before the deposition of the modern Subapennine beds which flank them on either side.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Implements connected with the harvesting and preparation of millet—a short curved knife for cutting, formerly made of flint, now usually of iron, a winnowing-fan of basket-work, and mortar and pestle of wood—are not dissimilar to those used by other Malay peoples; nor are they unlike those used by the Chinese and Japanese in the harvesting and winnowing of rice.
— from Among the Head-Hunters of Formosa by Janet B. Montgomery McGovern

Well, at this particular moment it happened that Balfour Murray—you know the chap that has been running that settlement joint in the Canongate for the last two years—proposes to Dunn that he should spend a few weeks in leading the young hopefuls in that interesting and uncleanly neighbourhood into paths of virtue and higher citizenship by way of soccer and kindred athletic stunts.
— from Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police: A Tale of the Macleod Trail by Ralph Connor

She returned just in time to meet the boarders descending to breakfast.
— from Helen Ford by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

The first United States patent for a drill jar is that to Morris, No. 2,243, September 4, 1841.
— from The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century. by Edward W. (Edward Wright) Byrn

They advanced, and only just in the nick of time remembered that there were others there; they could not have got closer and kept out of each other's arms.
— from A Woman Perfected by Richard Marsh