Yes, she really was joyful at seeing the friend of her childhood once more, and the tears even stood in her eyes.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

If now we ask how we are to plan our work, what method we are to follow, we must agree that to establish scientifically the principles of our discipline alone is not sufficient.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

I was afraid that she suspected my motives, and that the esteem she professed for me had been replaced by a much less friendly sentiment.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

In the desperation of her feelings, she resolved on one effort more, and, turning to Elizabeth, said: “Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example, and take a turn about the room.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Q.E.D. Note.—We may add, that these emotions show defective knowledge and an absence of power in the mind; for the same reason confidence, despair, joy, and disappointment are signs of a want of mental power.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

In the desperation of her feelings she resolved on one effort more; and, turning to Elizabeth, said, "Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example, and take a turn about the room.—I assure you it is very refreshing after sitting so long in one attitude."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The lines which divide authority from oppression, liberty from license, and right from might, are to their eyes so jumbled together and confused, that no one knows exactly what he is, or what he may be, or what he ought to be.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

There were only about a half dozen colored members attached to the Elm Street church, at this time.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The King's message announced that the 'eldest son of the Pretender to his Crown is arrived in France; and that preparations are making there to invade this kingdom in concert with disaffected persons here.
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of

Mother Atkinson thought that everyone should have a trade, or something to make a living out of, for rich people may grow poor, you know, and poor people have to work.
— from Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

Just as the materialistic rewards of economic activities often prove more attractive than the emotional satisfactions of family life, so, too, the intellectual ambitions of the professional woman may deter her from the exercise of her reproductive functions.
— from Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Phyllis Mary Blanchard

"In short," concludes the author of "Robinson Crusoe," "the observations on this most preposterous piece of Church work are so many, they cannot come into the compass of this paper; but if the money raised here be employed to re-edify this chapel, I would have it, as is very frequent, in like cases, written over the door in capital letters: 'This church was re-edified anno 1706, at the expense and by the charitable contribution of the enemies of the reformation of our morals, and to the eternal scandal and most just reproach of the Church of England and the Protestant religion.
— from The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins

The roar of the great dam at Ochoa is heard for a moment and then the eastern section of the canal is entered.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. I., No. 4, October, 1889 by Various

Sir Thomas Joseph de Trafford died in 1852, and was succeeded by Sir Humphrey, who was born in 1808, and in 1855 married the Lady Mary Annette Talbot, the eldest sister of the 17th Earl of Shrewsbury.
— from Echoes of Old Lancashire by William E. A. (William Edward Armytage) Axon