But, of the different forms of Imperfect Self-Control, those are better who are carried off their feet by a sudden access of temptation than they who have Reason but do not abide by it; these last being overcome by passion less in degree, and not wholly without premeditation as are the others: for the man of Imperfect Self-Control is like those who are soon intoxicated and by little wine and less than the common run of men.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

When she first came here she could speak no English; now she can make shift to talk it a little: I don’t understand her, she mixes it so with French; but you will make out her meaning very well, I dare say.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

You will live it down in time.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Among these, several Dutch merchants were particularly remarkable, who kept their houses like little garrisons besieged suffering none to go in or out or come near them, particularly one in a court in Throgmorton Street whose house looked into Draper's Garden.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Let this be so, and doubt not but success Will fashion the event in better shape Than I can lay it down in likelihood.
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

Sometimes they were the expressive eyes of Henry, languishing in death, the dark orbs nearly covered by the lids and the long black lashes that fringed them; sometimes it was the watery, clouded eyes of the monster, as I first saw them in my chamber at Ingolstadt.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

All men are born poor and naked, all are liable to the sorrows of life, its disappointments, its ills, its needs, its suffering of every kind; and all are condemned at length to die.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

MRS PATRICK: ( lifting sand and letting it drift through her hand .)
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

You would not have been left in doubt long, I feel sure, if such had been your case.”
— from White Turrets by Mrs. Molesworth

If, for instance, during a shower, I enter a house, where I borrow a cloak, and this cloak gets to be forever spoiled from coloring matters thrown upon me by mischance, from a window, or if it be stolen from me in a house where I laid it down, it would be considered generally absurd, to say that I had nothing else to do than to send back the cloak, such as it is, or report the theft that has taken place.
— from Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State by Paul Janet

Lacer is derived from laqs , a rope, a noose; and this comes from laqueus .
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

The ashes lay in drifts knee deep.
— from The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire by Charles Morris

My faithful Henriette, whose devoted attachment for me kept her ever watchful of my safety and reputation, was thunderstruck at perceiving what I vainly strove to conceal from her; and, as she has since told me, was long in deciding whether to speak to me of the affair, when an unexpected incident arose, which determined her, at every risk of my displeasure, to use her endeavors to put an end to so disgraceful a connexion, which must infallibly have ended in my disgrace.
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

" "How much of this principality have you left?" "I do not know.
— from The Pride of Palomar by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

Much of this sordid look is due to the smoke which issues out of all the windows and blackens the house walls, inside and out--the Calabrians persisting in a prehistoric fashion of cooking on the floor.
— from Old Calabria by Norman Douglas

[21] The following are his words (he speaks of himself in the third person): "L'année 1667, et les suivantes, il fit divers voyages avec beaucoup de dépenses, dans lesquels il découvrit le premier beaucoup de pays au sud des grands lacs, et entre autres la grande rivière d'Ohio ; il la suivit jusqu'à un endroit où elle tombe de fort haut dans de vastes marais, à la hauteur de 37 degrés, après avoir été
— from France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West by Francis Parkman

Listen, I did not care to go to the station to-day.
— from Oh, Money! Money! A Novel by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter