The already somewhat heavy emigration at this port made it necessary to order passage several weeks ahead in order to insure accommodations, and failing in this, the emigrant was forced to wait there until the next packet boat should sail.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Man, therefore, has a specialist as well as comrade-like aspect; and the case of militarism is not the only case of such specialist submission.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

After having broken away from the unlucky Herr von Munchhausen some time previously, and returned, as it appeared, with penitential ardour to her former connection with my friend, Hermann Muller, it now turned out that she had found no real satisfaction in this fresh relationship.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

They show its modernity, its nearness to our own days.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

When you see anyone weeping for grief, either that his son has gone abroad or that he has suffered in his affairs, take care not to be overcome by the apparent evil, but discriminate and be ready to say, “What hurts this man is not this occurrence itself—for another man might not be hurt by it—but the view he chooses to take of it.”
— from The Enchiridion by Epictetus

Besides, the numerical superiority that we have to meet is not that of an army on land with everything else equal, but of troops on board ship, upon an element where many favourable accidents are required to act with effect.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Might I not tell Of difference, reconcilement, pledges given, And vows, where there was never need of vows, And kisses, where the heart on one wild leap Hung tranced from all pulsation, as above The heavens between their fairy fleeces pale Sow'd all their mystic gulfs with fleeting stars; Or while the balmy glooming, crescent-lit, Spread the light haze along the river-shores,
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

But that a downright simpleness, under the affectation of simplicity, prosaic words in feeble metre, silly thoughts in childish phrases, and a preference of mean, degrading, or at best trivial associations and characters, should succeed in forming a school of imitators, a company of almost religious admirers, and this too among young men of ardent minds, liberal education, and not ———with academic laurels unbestowed; and that this bare and bald counterfeit of poetry, which is characterized as below criticism, should for nearly twenty years have well-nigh engrossed criticism, as the main, if not the only, butt of review, magazine, pamphlet, poem, and paragraph; this is indeed matter of wonder.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

," he said sulkily; "the difficulty about the money is not the only difficulty.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Such a contradiction enters neither into my intentions, nor those of the government of the French republic, nor of our army and its honorable chief. "
— from At Home And Abroad; Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Margaret Fuller

Nor must it be forgotten that for a squadron to take station off a port in the old manner is not the only means of close blockade.
— from Some Principles of Maritime Strategy by Julian Stafford Corbett

In spite of the fact that Johnson had been out with the motor and the old ladies till nearly midnight, I never thought of going down to look at the car.
— from The Affair at the Inn by Jane Helen Findlater

For in many instances, as hitherto discussed, we have seen that the manager is not the owner of the capital he employs.
— from Principles of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by John Stuart Mill

I interpreted the dream in the following manner: "If now the other boy were to die, the same thing would be repeated.
— from Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Sigmund Freud

He added: “Captain Miller is not taking orders from civilians, and he depends on his own sources for information.
— from Captain Macklin: His Memoirs by Richard Harding Davis

"Well I am very sorry," replied Emma quite humbly; "but as I did not go on purpose to meet Mr. Morgan, and I had little Janetta with me, I never thought of there being any harm in it at all."
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback

"You'll make it now, the one I've waited for—for weeks—Marishka.
— from The Secret Witness by George Gibbs

“Wilfrid, thy mission is not that of the Prophets or the Avenger or the Messenger; we are still on the confines of the lowest sphere; let us endeavor to rise through space on the wings of Prayer.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac