The twenty-five cent lodging-house keeps up the pretence of a bedroom, though the head-high partition enclosing a space just large enough to hold a cot and a chair and allow the man room to pull off his clothes is the shallowest of all pretences.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine— Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
— from Lamia by John Keats

There is one in particular which he prefers in his journeys, large enough to hold all the world.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Quamvis enim sint demersae leges alicuius opibus, quamvis timefacta libertas, emergunt tamen haec aliquando aut iudiciis tacitis aut occultis de honore suffragiis.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

But these breaks are imaginary, and might have been inserted anywhere, after intervals long enough to have allowed the accumulation of a considerable amount of divergent variation.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

His voluntary choice is evidence that what he so chooses is desirable, or at the least endurable, to him, and his good is on the whole best provided for by allowing him to take his own means of pursuing it.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

On the contrary, I say that the thing is not really so, but that it was a general complaint raised by the people inhabiting the outlying villages against the citizens to justify, or at least excuse, those hardships and severities so much talked of, and in which complaints both sides may be said to have injured one another; that is to say, the citizens pressing to be received and harboured in time of distress, and with the plague upon them, complain of the cruelty and injustice of the country people in being refused entrance and forced back again with their goods and families; and the inhabitants, finding themselves so imposed upon, and the citizens breaking in as it were upon them whether they would or no, complain that when they were infected they were not only regardless of others, but even willing to infect them; neither of which were really true—that is to say, in the colours they were described in.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

He asked the youth what had become of the letter entrusted to him, and why he had brought another instead of it.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

He had not in the least expected that his aristocratic relations would raise such a tempest over a paltry fifteen hundred roubles!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Through Steve, present at the reading of a will made at Vicksburg the day after Hilary's capture there, Irby had just notified Anna, for Hilary, that their uncle had left everything to him, Adolphe.
— from Kincaid's Battery by George Washington Cable

While the landing was being carried out, the building party had worked so rapidly that, if necessity had arisen, the hut could have been inhabited by the 12th; at the same time another small party had been engaged in making a cave in the ice which was to serve as a larder, and this strenuous work continued until the cave was large enough to hold all the mutton, and a considerable quantity of seal and penguin.
— from The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition by Charles Turley

Coleridge had been there long enough to have a pan of coffee boiling for us, and having put our clothes in the page 103 p. 103 way of drying, we all sate down, thankful for a shelter.
— from Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by Dorothy Wordsworth

It would lie bare on the surface of the hard ground, and would not be there long enough to have a chance of germinating, but as soon as the sower's back was turned to go up the next furrow, down would come the flock of thievish birds that fluttered behind him, and bear away the grains.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

In spite of that, would she not be noble enough to trust her life entirely to him, and be his wife?
— from The Prophet's Mantle by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The republicans, long exposed to hunger and privations, were now revelling in the fertile plains of Piedmont.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

Recent developments strengthen the suspicion long entertained that he acted traitorously.
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

kath' hekaterous gar atopos ho tês threpseôs estai logos, ekeinois tois haplois angeiois tois smikrois tois syntitheisi ta megala || 99 te kai aisthêta neura kata men tous synechê phylattontas auta mê dynamenês genesthai tês pros to kenoumenon akolouthias, hoti mêden en tô synechei gignetai kenon, kan aporrheê ti; synerchetai gar pros allêla ta kataleipomena moria, kathaper epi tou hydatos horatai, kai palin hen gignetai panta tên chôran tou diaphorêthentos auta katalambanonta; kata de tous heterous, hoti tôn stoicheiôn ekeinôn ouden deitai tês pros to kenoumenon akolouthias.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

This was more money than the pair had ever before seen, much less expected to handle and own.
— from Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe by John J. (John James) McLaurin

The people be very tall and well disposed; the women white, round faced, with little eies: the houses are high built, set vpon great high postes, and they go vp to them with long ladders for feare of the Tygers which be very many.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt