mistake me widely, sir,” said the barber: “I am too much addicted to the study of philosophy; hinc illae lacrymae , sir; that's my misfortune.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

And then too, always easy, bland, and considerate; and though with luxuries and conveniences at his command, to participate in which, under any other circumstances, might have been embarrassing to his companions, with so much tact, that either by an allusion to early days, happy days when he owed so much to Gerard’s father, or some other mode equally felicitous, he contrived completely to maintain among them the spirit of social equality.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

This was a very agreeable discovery to me at that time; so I carried all away thither, never keeping above two or three pounds of powder with me in my castle, for fear of a surprise of any kind; I also carried thither all the lead I had left for bullets.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

In order that this result may be adequately exhibited, I must ask the reader to travel with me again through the series of principles elicited from Common Sense in the previous chapters, and to examine them from a somewhat different point of view.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

but, supposing Cæsar to be some Person of a high Rank, because of his purple Robes, and the Number of his Attendants, they thought it would be more for their Profit to preserve him, in hopes of receiving a great Sum for his Ransom; therefore they told him he should have his Liberty, provided he would pay them twenty Talents, which they judg’d to be a very high Demand, in our Money, about three thousand six hundred Pounds Sterling; he smiled, and of his own Accord promised them fifty Talents; they were both pleased, and surpriz’d at his Answer, and consented that several of his Attendants should go by his Direction and raise the Money; and he was left among these Ruffians with no more than 3 Attendants.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

But finding in her the fault of barrenness, and desiring much to have offspring, he went to Upsala in order to procure fruitfulness for her; and being told in answer, that he must make atonement to the shades of his brother if he would raise up children, he obeyed the oracle, and was comforted by gaining his desire.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

That I should love him is no wonder, but that he should love me—’ and there the schoolmaster stopped, and took off his spectacles to wipe them, as though they had grown dim.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

And Will was of a temperament to feel keenly the presence of subtleties: a man of clumsier perceptions would not have felt, as he did, that for the first time some sense of unfitness in perfect freedom with him had sprung up in Dorothea's mind, and that their silence, as he conducted her to the carriage, had had a chill in it.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Bolivia has wanted a sovereign corridor to the South Pacific Ocean since the Atacama area was lost to Chile in 1884; dispute with Bolivia over Rio Lauca water rights; territorial claim in Antarctica (Chilean Antarctic Territory) partially overlaps Argentine and British claims Illicit drugs: a growing transshipment country for cocaine destined for the US and Europe; economic prosperity has made Chile more attractive to traffickers seeking to launder drug profits; imported precursors passed on to Bolivia; domestic cocaine consumption is rising ______________________________________________________________________
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"This is him," she said to me, and then the sailor came forward and grinned.
— from A Holiday in Bed, and Other Sketches by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

It had been too much for her excitable little brain; she always had been passionately fond of music, but was more accustomed to the street organs in London than to any other sort, and this was as great a contrast to those as heaven is to earth.
— from Odd by Amy Le Feuvre

Cirri form at the line of meeting, between the trade and the upper atmosphere, and in one or the other, or both, very much according to the season, and the suddenness with which storms are produced.
— from The Philosophy of the Weather. And a Guide to Its Changes by T. B. (Thomas Belden) Butler

The taenia tecti marginales and the tectum synoticum are covered dorsally and laterally by the frontoparietals.
— from Cranial Osteology of the Hylid Frog, Smilisca baudini by Linda Trueb

They were not mounted and therefore traveled slowly, so it took about ten days of walking before they saw any signs of the enemy.
— from Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin

At first the infinite acquires those faculties in humanity which border on and are more akin to the senses, such as the imagination and the fancy; hence the primitive state of nations is marked with very imperfect development of the reasoning faculties, and with a superabundance of imagination; consequently, this primitive state abounds in national bards, who discharge all those offices which, in nations more civilized, are fulfilled by others, such as historians, orators, etc.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

Would it not be best for Cecile, Maurice, and Toby to set off at once on that mission into France?
— from The Children's Pilgrimage by L. T. Meade

'I shall write to Armitstead this afternoon and ask him, if he possibly can, to come to-morrow afternoon, instead of Monday, and take the service.'
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.