If Dunsey did not come back for a few days (and Godfrey did not know but that the rascal had enough money in his pocket to enable him to keep away still longer), everything might blow over.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

There is a finely translated epigram in the greek anthology which admirably expresses this state of mind, this acceptance of loss as unatoned for, even tho the lost element might be one's self: "A shipwrecked sailor, buried on this coast, Bids you set sail.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Es muy importante poder comunicar con el Net en diferentes lenguas, es más bien obligatorio, porque la información la tenemos a nivel mundial, ¿por qué
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

A dark dream Of hearts estranged, and of an Eden lost Entranced my being; one absorbing thought Which, if not torture, was a dull despair That agony were light to.
— from Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The purchase money was 10,000 pounds of lawful English money; but, of course, the payment was made mainly in merchandise, and not specie.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt

Besides, the subsequent reactions which would be made would certainly never revive words formerly written and effaced; whilst the latter effects may be often produced, more or less visibly, on those parts of the paper on which falsification has been practiced, figures or words being substituted for other figures or words.
— from Forty Centuries of Ink Or, A chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. by David Nunes Carvalho

“Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best.”— Sydney Smith LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
— from A history of the Irish poor law, in connexion with the condition of the people by Nicholls, George, Sir

The headlines fluttered into sight: MARTIAL LAW EDICT "MUST BE OBEYED," SAYS GOVERNOR But Riots Are Feared In Outlying Towns MAN AND WIFE CONFESS KILLING OF RELATIVES ABOARD PRIVATE PLANE: Force Kin
— from Occasion for Disaster by Randall Garrett

First, Fighting against the present despair, he saith, “Thy dead shall live, even my body (or with my body) shall they arise; awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs,” verse 19.
— from The Pulpit Of The Reformation, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. by Hugh Latimer

While to Dr. Strachan belongs the honor of establishing the first school whereat a liberal education might be obtained the efforts and labors of others must not be forgotten.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

Then came that master-stroke of enterprise, when God directed Moses to "speak now in the ears of the people and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver and jewels of gold," so that they might "spoil" the Egyptians.
— from The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson

Some of them were scarecrows, especially poor Jehu, who was never expected to start at all, and ended by gallantly pulling his somewhat diminished load eight marches beyond One Ton Camp, a distance of 238 miles.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard