First, mounted on a willing and well-favoured horse, as we will suppose, there would be General Simcoe himself—a soldierly personage, in the full vigour of life, advanced but little beyond his fortieth year, of thoughtful and stern, yet benevolent aspect—as shewn by the medallion in marble on his monument in the cathedral at Exeter—revolving ever in his mind schemes for the development and defence of the new Society which he was engaged in founding; a man "just, active, enlightened, brave, frank," as the French Duke de Liancourt described him in 1795; "possessing the confidence of the country, of the troops, and of all those who were joined with him in the administration of public affairs.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

If the suitors kill me in my own house and divide my property among them, I would rather you had the presents than that any of those people should get hold of them.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

In that hour she repeated what the merciful eyes of solitude have looked on for ages in the spiritual struggles of man—she besought hardness and coldness and aching weariness to bring her relief from the mysterious incorporeal might of her anguish: she lay on the bare floor and let the night grow cold around her; while her grand woman's frame was shaken by sobs as if she had been a despairing child.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Those gardens of his near by do not merely put me in mind of him; they seem to set the man himself
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

I placed myself in my own hands, I restored myself to health: the first condition of success in such an undertaking, as every physiologist will admit, is that at bottom a man should be sound.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

As Oliver accompanied his master in most of his adult expeditions too, in order that he might acquire that equanimity of demeanour and full command of nerve which was essential to a finished undertaker, he had many opportunities of observing the beautiful resignation and fortitude with which some strong-minded people bear their trials and losses.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Why, in the account of Terah's emigration, on his forsaking the Chaldeans and passing over into Mesopotamia, no mention is made of his son Nahor.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

But, finding him backward and astonished, I took his pistols, and, giving them to Strap, who had by this time alighted and trembled very much, I mounted on horseback; and, taking my own (which I could better depend upon) from the holsters, cocked them both, and faced the robbers, who were now very near us.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

You have come to me and despised me in my own house.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If I were not determined, from this day forth, to see nothing but the bright side of our prospects, the melancholy absence of any male relative of Laura's, at the most important moment of her life, would make me very gloomy and very distrustful of the future.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The flatterer praises for selfish ends, cares little for truth, and makes it his business to magnify indiscriminately; most of his effects consist in lying additions of his own; he thinks nothing of making Thersites handsomer than Achilles, or telling Nestor he is younger than any of the host; he will swear Croesus's son hears better than Melampus, and give Phineus better sight than Lynceus, if he sees his way to a profit on the lie.
— from The Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by of Samosata Lucian

“I believe that every man is master of his own fate.
— from Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens by Margaret W. (Margaret White) Eggleston

It might seem incredible that such a recommendation should be needed, but hitherto the number in a class had had but little reference to the amount of duty that fell to it to perform, and indeed, as mentioned in an earlier part of this narrative, [117] the division implied no real classification whatever, so that in many instances men of high class were, through lack of ability, employed at low-class work, and vice versa .
— from The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Hill, Rowland, Sir

There happened to be a young man at this time expected in the village, who had received his early education at S— B— school, and who had been, for many years, the mate in mischief of Henry St. Aubin.
— from First Love: A Novel. Vol. 1 of 3 by Mrs. (Margracia) Loudon

[Pg 609] to kill me in mine own house?"
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851 by Various

Miss Blanchard puts me in mind of him.”
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

“Of course Graeme will not like her to go, but Nelly is very obstinate and disagreeable, and mamma says I shall never be mistress in my own house while she stays.
— from Janet's Love and Service by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

Moon is Moving On high.
— from Omaha sociology (1884 N 03 / 1881-1882 (pages 205-370)) by James Owen Dorsey

In this emergency, while I do not believe that I felt it a duty, I am sure that I did think it would be a good thing for the fellows at Pickens to be informed of the intentions of both the governments toward them, and as I could not then communicate with Secretary Cameron, at Washington, I concluded to take the matter in my own hands, and find out, if possible, just what was proposed, and endeavor to communicate with Secretary Cameron.
— from The Boy Spy A substantially true record of secret service during the war of the rebellion, a correct account of events witnessed by a soldier by Joseph Orton Kerbey

[Pg 178] among other books, a volume of the poems of my friend Pfeiffer , which were not published till after his decease; and as I had long wished to set something from it to music in memory of him, I chose one of them: “ Die Weihe der Töne ,” which pleased me very much, and appeared to me particularly well suited for the composition of a cantata.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr