It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

18 The lofty stature of the Franks, and their blue eyes, denoted a Germanic origin; their close apparel accurately expressed the figure of their limbs; a weighty sword was suspended from a broad belt; their bodies were protected by a large shield; and these warlike Barbarians were trained, from their earliest youth, to run, to leap, to swim; to dart the javelin, or battle-axe, with unerring aim; to advance, without hesitation, against a superior enemy; and to maintain, either in life or death, the invincible reputation of their ancestors.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

So far as it makes each individual look like every other—no matter how different under the skin—homogeneity mobilizes the individual man.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Tell your client that, although I am the insulted party, in order to carry out my eccentricity, I leave him the choice of arms, and will accept without discussion, without dispute, anything, even combat by drawing lots, which is always stupid, but with me different from other people, as I am sure to gain.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Then, as it was growing late and we were both exhausted by so much emotion, I left her.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Shaking my hair from my eyes, I lifted my head and tried to look boldly round the dark room; at this moment a light gleamed on the wall.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget that this is the first of fraternal obligations, and selfish hearts must understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, airing, enlightening, loving them, in enlarging their horizon to a magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in offering them the example of labor, never the example of
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

As she came nearer and nearer to the familiar breeding places there was more and more earnestness in Laska’s exploration.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Nothing evil can happen to the good man either in life or death, and his own death has been permitted by the gods, because it was better for him to depart; and therefore he forgives his judges because they have done him no harm, although they never meant to do him any good.
— from Apology by Plato

See Sociedad Mexicana , etc., its later name.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

I had no talents even; I took my measure early in life.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Force is visible to us as a movement in Nature;—when we try to formulate it intelligently to ourselves, its mental equivalent is Law.
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

My entire intellectual life has driven me forward—I am a disciple of the absolute freedom, the divinity of self, and—but there I invited you to a joy party, not a university seminar.”
— from The Voice on the Wire by Eustace Hale Ball

This strikes me as most extraordinary, in lace of your statement that you know nothing of her.”
— from The Bond of Black by William Le Queux

It may, indeed, be matter of inquiry whether that object be God, or something different from God; but because we perceive, or rather, stimulated by sense, clearly and distinctly apprehend, certain matter extended in length, breadth, and thickness, the various parts of which have different figures and motions, and give rise to the sensation we have of colours, smells, pain, etc., God would, without question, deserve to be regarded as a deceiver, if he directly and of himself presented to our mind the idea of this extended matter, or merely caused it to be presented to us by some object which possessed neither extension, figure, nor motion.
— from Selections from the Principles of Philosophy by René Descartes

With regard to the many other causes which will suggest themselves to my readers in reading a history of his campaigns, I shall say nothing; for on all of these, as well as on the causes of his downfall, which I shall merely enumerate, I leave them to make their own observations.
— from Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Patrick Fraser Tytler

37 (1752), the bodies of all murderers executed in London and Westminster were to be given to the surgeons to be dissected and anatomised.
— from The Law and Medical Men by R. Vashon (Robert Vashon) Rogers