What we have found once to follow from any object, we conclude will for ever follow from it; and if this maxim be not always built upon as certain, it is not for want of a sufficient number of experiments, but because we frequently meet with instances to the contrary; which leads us to the second species of probability, where there is a contrariety in our experience and observation.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The flames lighted up the tin soldier, as he stood, the heat was very terrible, but whether it proceeded from the real fire or from the fire of love he could not tell.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Then Erling said to his people, "Let us take their ships, but not go up to fight with a land force.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

"No, we are not of your people," replied Dorothy, with mildness, "but we are Christians looking upward to the same heaven with you.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In these grounds you begin by making the row of loops, then you throw a thread across on the same level and in coming back, pass the needle through the row of loops under the thread stretched across, and under the stitch of the previous row.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

I felt like I do when I look up to the stars.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

But no tears came at first, even when she knelt by her window in the darkness and prayed, looking up to the stars beyond the hills—no tears, only the same horrible dull ache of misery that kept on aching until she fell asleep, worn out with the day’s pain and excitement.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Are there many men capable of so spiritual a love of science?" "God forbid," answered the professor, somewhat testily; "at least, unless they take sounder views of the healing art than those adopted by Rappaccini.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

After a little rambling talk, the lawyer led up to the subject which so disagreeably preoccupied his mind.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

She smiled and disappeared with the others on the road that led up to the settlement.
— from Germinal by Émile Zola

Had this article been lived up to, the “sick soldiers” referred to would have been provided for for life, as would their children and children's children.
— from A Boy Trooper with Sheridan by Stanton P. Allen

If you wish us to maintain the invisible truths against so many adversaries, do not deprive us of our weapons; do not tell us in advance how far we may go; let us trust that some day this gate of the infinite, at which we have struggled for so many centuries, will at last be opened.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

"A wretched life you will lead up there," they said; "depend upon it, you will never be able to bear it, and we shall see you back in Melbourne within a month, disgusted with up-country life."
— from A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Samuel Smiles

She went up and down the garden-path slowly in the silence, looking up to the stars, with her heart very full.
— from Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

John—Eabani Let us, then, test some of the arguments by which this remarkable conclusion is reached.
— from The Historical Christ; Or, An investigation of the views of Mr. J. M. Robertson, Dr. A. Drews, and Prof. W. B. Smith by F. C. (Frederick Cornwallis) Conybeare

Will Japan respect the pledges she has made and live up to the spirit of her promises?
— from From Isolation to Leadership, Revised A Review of American Foreign Policy by John Holladay Latané

Our old chambers had been left unchanged through the supervision of Mycroft Holmes and the immediate care of Mrs. Hudson.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The events leading up to the siege of Saragossa are a part of the history of Spain in her struggle for continued national existence against the encroachments of Napoleon.
— from Saragossa: A Story of Spanish Valor by Benito Pérez Galdós

“And this,” thought I, gazing in horror at the captain, who, with a quiet look of indifference, leaned upon the taffrail smoking a cigar and contemplating the fertile green islets as they passed like a lovely picture before our eyes—“this is the man who favours the missionaries because they are useful to him and can tame the savages better than any one else can do it!”
— from The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne