"There has been better ladies, and there has been worser, Hester," was Miss Horrocks' reply to this compliment of her inferior; so she ruled, having supreme power over all except her father, whom, however, she treated with considerable haughtiness, warning him not to be too familiar in his behaviour to one "as was to be a Baronet's lady.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Chapter 24 “Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive,” thought Levin, as he came away from the Shtcherbatskys’, and walked in the direction of his brother’s lodgings.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

There still remains the possibility that it is not mankind that is in a state of degeneration, but only that parasitical kind of man—the priest, [Pg 141] who, by means of morality and lies, has climbed up to his position of determinator of values, who divined in Christian morality his road to power.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“If all this be true,” added the Sultan, “you see that I must have recourse to other means to determine certainly in the choice I ought to make among you; and that, as there is time enough between this and night, I’ll do it to-day.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

I must have recourse to my diary again; I will commit it to paper to-night, and see what I shall think of it to-morrow.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

We have already referred to this twofold organization ( vide chapters on Private Life and on Food), but we may here remark that, notwithstanding these ancient tendencies to the creation of a fixed ceremonial, the trifling rules which made etiquette a science and a law, were introduced by degrees, and have only very recently been established amongst us.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

and another made known, by news received from Vera Cruz, that "El Vizconde Melbourne" had returned to the office of "primer ministro," in place of Sir Roberto Peel.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Meanwhile, my very dear friend MacCallum had returned to town.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

A ruined man, he returned to Alencon in 1800, with his daughter, who was twenty-two years of age, and found a home with the Marquis d'Esgrignon, and died of grief two months later.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

The young man hovered round the sisters, and spoke to one as much as to the other, and divided his attentions equally between them.
— from The Pennycomequicks, Volume 1 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Improved machinery has raised their wages.
— from The Golden Censer Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern

Even as he made his resolve the engine, foot by foot, was gliding ahead of him.
— from The Marines Have Landed by Giles Bishop

There has been some testimony that the Labor Museum has revealed the charm of woman's primitive activities.
— from Twenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical Notes by Jane Addams

When Froebel grew to be a man, he remembered this, and made the building blocks for us, so that we might make fine, tall churches and houses as often as we liked.
— from The Story Hour: A Book for the Home and the Kindergarten by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Beavis had a sense of humour, and he must have realized the funny side of the scene when Dolores proudly told him that she had scraped together the large sum of forty-eight dollars!
— from Remarkable Rogues The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America; Second Edition by Charles Kingston

And in the morning he reached that place, which was easy to recognise by the carcass of the horse.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

But when we remember that the unity of human experience, in the light of which scientific results are tested, and to whose growth and enrichment the scientific worker is devoted, is indeed a superhuman reality of the type that we have now discussed; when we also recall the profound values which the scientific ideal has for all departments of human life in our day; when, further, we see how resolutely the true investigator gives his all to contribute to what is really the unity of the spirit, we may well wonder who is in essence more heartily religious than the completely devoted scientific investigator--such a man, for instance, as was Faraday.
— from The Sources of Religious Insight by Josiah Royce

What Naturally Every Man Has Right To Everything
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes