The more lasting impulse, memory being assumed, would prompt a moral judgment when it emerged again after being momentarily obscured by an intermittent passion.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Once my heart sat lightly in my bosom; all the beauty of the world was doubly beautiful, irradiated by the sun-light shed from my own soul.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

If I live I may be a hunchback, but I shan't live.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

In the first place I felt somebody lying in my bed, and in the second I saw the prefect, with a candle in his hand, coming along slowly and taking a survey of all the beds right and left.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I shall ask only what right those who were not afraid thus to debase themselves could have to subject their posterity to the same ignominy, and to renounce for them those blessings which they do not owe to the liberality of their progenitors, and without which life itself must be a burden to all who are worthy of it.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A single correspondence of lesser importance may be added.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

From that moment they are no longer isolated men, but a power seen from afar, whose actions serve for an example, and whose language is listened to.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

vi. 28, as occurring “pluribus Italiæ locis;” it may be ascribed to the exhalations from volcanos being raised up into the atmosphere.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The little island may be as perfect as a garden, but you always want to get back to your own big country, don’t you?
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

But the very next morning I sustained heavy losses in my business, and others soon followed, and to-day I am threatened with utter ruin.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various

Dr. Franklin, whose genuine passion for liberty it must be admitted was as absorbing and unaffected as Wilkes’s assumed patriotism was shallow and self-serving, happened to be in London at the time of the violent ferment occasioned by the Middlesex election in 1768.
— from A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria by Joseph Grego

Life in Moab became an exile, the Bethlehemites saw that hardship in their own land would have been as easy to endure as the disdain of the heathen and constant temptations to vile conformity.
— from The Expositor's Bible: Judges and Ruth by Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Watson

Ambition, Pleasure, Vanity, all by turns, Shall lie in my bed, and keep me fresh and waking; Yet Love not be excluded.
— from The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb

so praying all the time—for his mind misgave him it might not be all right—he shifts the bars and unlocks the door; but neither man, woman, nor child, nor horse, nor any living shape was standing there, only something or another slipt into the house close by his leg; it might be a dog, or something that way, he could not tell, for he only seen it for a moment with the corner of his eye, and it went in just like as if it belonged to the place.
— from The House by the Church-Yard by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

I did my best to encourage him in this favourable opinion, promising myself that the little I might be able to do to promote his views, that I would do.
— from Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

The flow of liquid is maintained by a force-pump, and the diminished pressure by a vacuum-pump suitably disposed.
— from A Text-book of Paper-making by C. F. (Charles Frederick) Cross

Andros or Edros, Siambis, Xanthos, Ricnea, Menapia, &c? whose names onelie are left in memorie by ancient writers, but I saie their places not so much as heard of in our daies)
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison