All the money I could command in the world, I had brought with me, secreted about my person; so you may judge what our prospects were, in case the war should continue long.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

John T. Morgan Introductory Chapter Chapter I: Exterior Form Of North America Chapter Summary Chapter II: Origin Of The Anglo-Americans—Part I Chapter Summary Chapter II: Origin Of The Anglo-Americans—Part II Chapter III: Social Conditions Of The Anglo-Americans Chapter Summary Chapter
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The nobles were ashamed to mix in commerce, considering it unworthy of them, and the bourgeois, for want of liberal feeling and expansiveness in their ideas, were satisfied with appropriating merely local trade.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

The great passion of a sceptic, the basis and power of his being, which is more enlightened and more despotic than he is himself, enlists all his intellect into its service; it makes him unscrupulous; it even gives him the courage to employ unholy means; in certain circumstances it even allows him convictions.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Now, what mortal imagination could conceive it?" whispered the old lady confidentially to Hester.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

When, for example, I imagine such carrion as the Brockton murder, I cannot conceive it as an act by which the universe, as a whole, logically and necessarily expresses its nature without shrinking from complicity with such a whole.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

I heard Mrs. Inglethorp call “Cynthia” impatiently, and the girl started and ran back to the house.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid’s knee.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

The magistrate had thought it advisable not to put one of these men of the band of Patron Minette in close confinement, in the hope that he would chatter.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“Now, what mortal imagination could conceive it!”
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

According to Tacitus “some say that the Jews were fugitives from the island of Crete,” [508] and he continues: “There is a famous mountain in Crete called Ida; the neighbouring tribe, the Idaei, came to be called Judaei by a barbarous lengthening of the national name”.
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley

Among other effects of sin and rebellion, one of the worst is a stiffening of the soul, making it hard and rigid, so that it cannot bend, it cannot melt, it cannot change its course.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

Sanguilly, Manuel, in Constitutional Convention, IV, 190.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

The owner who squared his conscience by throwing the responsibility of the seaman's safety on to Almighty God did not unduly concern himself as to efficiency or seaworthiness; nor did he assume deep mourning if calamity came in consequence thereof.
— from The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Runciman, Walter Runciman, Baron

And if, as seems probable, the coaly matter is continually changing into asphalt and oil, and then working its way upward through every crack and pore, to escape from the enormous pressure of the superincumbent soil, it must needs carry up with it innumerable particles of the soils through which it passes.
— from At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies by Charles Kingsley

While the number of successful monoplanes is increasing rapidly, and there is some feature of advantage in nearly all the new makes, interest centers chiefly in the Santos-Dumont, Antoinette and Bleriot machines.
— from Flying Machines: Construction and Operation A Practical Book Which Shows, in Illustrations, Working Plans and Text, How to Build and Navigate the Modern Airship by William J. (William James) Jackman