Was the Revolution made, and fought for, against the world, these four weary years, that a Formula might be substantiated; that Society might become methodic, demonstrable by logic; and the old Noblesse with their pretensions vanish?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Fanny stood up tottering—made a step or two towards her mother, and fell forwards into her arms in a fainting fit.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

But Don Alfonso stood with downcast looks, And, truth to say, he made a foolish figure; When, after searching in five hundred nooks, And treating a young wife with so much rigour, He gain'd no point, except some self-rebukes, Added to those his lady with such vigour Had pour'd upon him for the last half-hour, Quick, thick, and heavy—as a thunder-shower.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The fertility of the land was a secret inducement to him to invade it; because he heard that the people obtained cassia from the lakes, and myrrh and frankincense from the trees; that cinnamon was cut from the shrubs, and that the meadows produce spikenard without any cultivation.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

When the sexes are separated, although the male and female flowers may be produced on the same tree, we can see that pollen must be regularly carried from flower to flower; and this will give a better chance of pollen being occasionally carried from tree to tree.
— 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

Such was the end of this deceiver, a man of an evil life, a secret murderer, a filthy fornicator, a pollutor of concubines, and (amongst other his detestable facts) a false accuser of his elder brother, [194] who had in his youth brought him up in learning, and done many things for his preferment.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

I wanted to give him money and feel finished.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

“You must act fairly, Filimonushka. . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And yet there is no reason women should take it amiss to be thus charged; for if they do but righdy consider they will find it is to Folly they are beholden for those endowments, wherein they so far surpass and excel man; as first, for their unparalleled beauty, by the charm whereof they tyrannize over the greatest tyrants; for what is it but too great a smatch of wisdom that makes men so tawny and thick-skinned, so rough and prickly-bearded, like an emblem of winter or old age, while women have such dainty smooth cheeks, such a low gende voice, and so pure a complexion, as if nature had drawn them for a standing pattern of all symmetry and comeliness?
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

He walked along Collins Street, met a few friends, and kept a look-out for Kitty.
— from Madame Midas by Fergus Hume

"I think she went away," answered Amy, "because she fancied you were tired, and would rather be alone with me at first; for she begged I would come to her in the schoolroom when I left you."
— from Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Missing Sewell

She had no less than twenty-five pairs of sheets, a hundred and eighteen serviettes and fifteen tablecloths, one of which fetched as much as fifteen florins at the sale in 1639, and another of damask ( damast taefellaecken ), twenty florins.
— from Dutch and Flemish Furniture by Esther Singleton

] Note 3146 ( return ) [ See his two journals, "L'Ami du people" and the "Journal de la Républic Française," especially for July and October 1792.—The number for August 16 is headed: "Development of the vile plot of the court to destroy all patriots with fire and sword."—That of August 19: "The infamous conscript Fathers of the Circus, betraying the people and trying to delay the conviction of traitors until Mottié arrives, is marching with his army on Paris to destroy all patriots!"—That of Aug. 21: "The rotters of the Assembly, the perfidious accomplices of Mottié arranging for flight...
— from The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

“I certainly did mak a flaw, Fer which I’ve rued, alas!
— from Revised Edition of Poems by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

It has its roots in the whole moral, political, and physical system of the Saxon race; it comes of mediæval and feudal feeling; it is bound up with the territorial traditions that hitherto have been England’s
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Call me a fat fool, John, out loud!”
— from Mad Barbara by Warwick Deeping

I present to you, in addition, the urgent necessity that special provision be made also for facilitating the credits needed by the farmers of the country.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents