He had a healthier and more cheerful look than when she saw him last: he was in shooting coat and knickerbockers, and he had a gun in his hand and a couple of dogs at his heels.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

The place which they governed shows how frugal and temperate he and his predecessors were, for there were very few houses besides the church found at their departure; indeed, no more than were barely sufficient to make civilized life possible; they had also no money, but only cattle; for if they received any money from rich persons, they immediately gave it to the poor; there being no need to gather money, or provide houses for the entertainment of the great men of the world; for such never resorted to the church, except to pray and hear the Word of God.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

That no man can legally promise what he cannot legally perform is a self-evident proposition.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

English is the most common language for international discussions.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

the town in which Mrs. Catherick lived, and on reaching it found myself in a square of small houses, one story high.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

While poor Mrs. Churchill lived, I suppose there could not have been a hope, a chance, a possibility;—but scarcely are her remains at rest in the family vault, than her husband is persuaded to act exactly opposite to what she would have required.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

No man can leave his family at night without the dread that some roving Negro ruffian is watching and waiting for this opportunity.
— from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

If then the fact of living is in itself good and pleasant (and this appears from the fact that all desire it, and specially those who are good and in high happiness; their course of life being most choiceworthy and their existence most choiceworthy likewise), then also he that sees perceives that he sees; and he that hears perceives that he hears; and he that walks perceives that he walks; and in all the other instances in like manner there is a faculty which reflects upon and perceives the fact that we are working, so that we can perceive that we perceive and intellectually know that we intellectually know: but to perceive that we perceive or that we intellectually know is to perceive that we exist, since existence was defined to be perceiving or intellectually knowing.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Les frères ennemis devraient se donner la main comme lors des premiers jours car le net à son origine n'a jamais été un repaire de "has been" mélancoliques, mais rien ne peut résister à la force d'inertie de l'argent. C'était
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

This time the master completely lost his temper and said angrily to Francois: “If you don't throw this beast into the water before—to-morrow morning, I'll put you out, do you hear?”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Hence this sharp contact with Nature tended to make Christina less selfish: it made her forget herself so far as to care for her helper as well as herself.
— from What's Mine's Mine — Complete by George MacDonald

Modern criminal law looks primarily to the psychical origin of the deed, and only secondarily to its physical effects; mediæval criminal law ignored the origin altogether, and regarded exclusively the effects, which it dealt with on the homœopenal principle of similia similibus puniantur , for the most part blindly and brutally applied.
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans

more!" cried Little Jack Rollaround; and the little boat sailed faster up the wall, across the ceiling, down the wall, and over the floor.
— from Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling by Sara Cone Bryant

RICHARD W. KNOTT friend and neighbor to many young women such as JOAN, whom she has helped to find the why of themselves; and whose life principle may be summed up in Virgil's phrase Paulo majora canamus — (Let us sing of higher things.)
— from Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

I trust you will be satisfied with my candour.” “Let me ask for a little more of that same candour.
— from Luttrell Of Arran by Charles James Lever

(Back) Footnote 225: M. Caudel, Les élections générales anglaises (janvier 1906), in Annales des Sciences Politiques , March, 1906; E. de Noirmont, Les élections anglaises de janvier 1906; les résultats généraux in Questions Diplomatiques et
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

No sooner had Alden spoken than Miss Claxton left her writing desk, came swiftly, and sat down beside him.
— from The Summit House Mystery; Or, The Earthly Purgatory by L. (Lily) Dougall

Mrs. Conly looked at the number over the door, saw that it was the one she had given him, then in a voice she vainly tried to make coldly indifferent, inquired of some children who had gathered on the sidewalk to gaze in open-mouthed curiosity at her and the hack, if this were —— street.
— from Grandmother Elsie by Martha Finley