But Arthur all the time was losing so much blood that scarcely could he keep upon his feet yet so full was he of knighthood, that knightly he endured the pain, and still sustained himself, though now he was so feeble that he thought himself about to die.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

We know how easily the uselessness of almost every branch of knowledge may be proved to the complete satisfaction of those who do not possess it.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

The door of the room was in the rear, reached by a narrow court, and Jurgis saw a light in the window and heard something frying as he passed; he knocked, half expecting that Ona would answer.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

enargôs gar hosêmerai theôreisthai tas kysteis hapasas, ei tis autas emplêseien hydatos ê aeros, eita dêsas ton trachêlon piezoi pantachothen, oudamothen methieisas ouden, all' akribôs hapan entos heautôn stegousas.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

It was thus that Plato fled from actuality, and wished to contemplate things only in their pale mental concepts: he was full of sensitiveness, and knew how easily the waves of this sensitiveness would drown his reason.—Must the sage therefore say, “I will honour reality, but I will at the same time turn my back to it because I know and dread it?”
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Anna is nursing a cold caught in the arbor at Faringdon, that she may be able to keep her engagement to Maria M. this evening, when I suppose she will make it worse.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

But after the searching look of the king he encountered the burning eyes of Aramis.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

The worthy capitan at first knitted his eyebrows, then raised them; his face became pale, then lighted up as he hastily folded the paper and arose.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

For young couples do not blend and mix well together, and it takes a long time and is not an easy process for them to divest themselves of their pride and spirit, and at first there's a good deal of dirty weather and they don't pull well together, and this is oftenest the case when there's love on both sides, and, just as a storm wrecks the ship if no pilot is on board, so their marriage is trouble and confusion, neither party knowing how either to rule or to give way properly.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

She often made Fabien a third with Arthur in her opera-box and at first representations; this she excused by saying he had done her such or such a service and she did not know how else to repay him.
— from Beatrix by Honoré de Balzac

But if you want to know how easily the passage was made let it be said the last thirty miles of it was in a mist that thickened into a dense fog, obscuring the land
— from With the Battle Fleet Cruise of the Sixteen Battleships of the United States Atlantic Fleet from Hampton Roads to the Golden Gate, December, 1907-May, 1908 by Franklin Matthews

He looked on until he could no longer keep his enjoyment to himself."
— from Russell H. Conwell, Founder of the Institutional Church in America The Work and the Man by Agnes Rush Burr

Kia hiwa e tera tuku; Bend ears to every sound, Kia, whakarongo koe High up, high up
— from The adventures of Kimble Bent: A story of wild life in the New Zealand bush by James Cowan

Only a few months before, the king had expressed the opinion above quoted as to the uselessness, or worse than uselessness, of such explorations as La Salle had been engaged in; but when the explorer himself appeared upon the scene, a change came over the views of the court.
— from Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur

The principal reason hereof was, that two fresh Knights had entered the battle so valiant, and of such might in arms, that they expected by them to win the victory, weening that there was no Knight on the part of Lisuarte who could maintain the field against them.
— from Amadis of Gaul, Vol. 3 of 4. by Vasco de Lobeira

—Hitherto Kant has employed the concept of an absolutely necessary Being without question.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

Emily replied that she had letters to write, which would keep her engaged the whole morning; and Amy scarcely wished her to remain, when she observed the expression of Miss Cunningham's face, and saw that her good-humour was by no means restored.
— from Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Missing Sewell

Every great advance in knowledge has extended the sphere of order and correspondingly restricted the sphere of apparent disorder in the world, till now we are ready to anticipate that even in regions where chance and confusion appear still to reign, a fuller knowledge would everywhere reduce the seeming chaos to cosmos.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12) by James George Frazer