And maun I still, &c. H2 anchor To A Mountain Daisy, On turning down with the Plough, in April, 1786.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Stronger than all, there was the regard for a friend's moral improvement, sometimes called her soul, which was likely to be benefited by remarks tending to gloom, uttered with the accompaniment of pensive staring at the furniture and a manner implying that the speaker would not tell what was on her mind, from regard to the feelings of her hearer.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

In a moment more I should certainly have swooned away in his arms, but for an interruption from the outer world, which brought me to myself again.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The appearance of the plain was changed during this short interval; the encampment was broken up; the relics of the disbanded army met in small companies here and there; each face was clouded; every gesture spoke astonishment and dismay.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In order to cover the expense involved in handling these supplies, the manufacturers in some cases have agreed to allow National Headquarters the same trade discount allowed to local dealers.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

I took the young Genoese to the play, to Marcoline’s delight, for she would have liked the French very much if she could have understood them.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Had I pleased myself, I should certainly have reversed this order, for the glance of Mademoiselle Galley had reached my heart, but I dared not mention it, and the proposal could not reasonably come from her.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"The lady who asked the question whether women may be instructed in the modern system of botany, consistently with female delicacy?" was accused of ridiculous prudery: nevertheless, if she had proposed the question to me, I should certainly have answered—They cannot.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

For what is practical according to natural concepts has been identified with the practical according to the concept of freedom; and so with the like titles, ‘theoretical’ and ‘practical’ Philosophy, a division has been made, by which in fact nothing has been divided (for both parts might in such case have principles of the same kind).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Nor could the law make her lord come home and live with her, even such a cat and dog life as must in such case have been hers.
— from Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

She would have killed me if she could have got the chance.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Had I looked in a mirror at that moment, I should certainly have beheld the face of a fool.
— from The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid

If I thought about myself I should consider how old and fat and ugly I am.
— from Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

If Jane Tillman became Mrs. Baxter, she intended to get the whip hand and keep it; but nothing was further from her intention than to make the Deacon miserable if she could help it.
— from The Story of Waitstill Baxter by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Like many another man in such circumstances, he saw and entered into the fun which his own imaginary forgetfulness produced.
— from Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey

If the wood for instance has been cut down, or has lost the thick shade, which was its chief merit, in such circumstances he seeks in the neighbourhood another spot more to his liking.
— from The Natural History of Cage Birds Their Management, Habits, Food, Diseases, Treatment, Breeding, and the Methods of Catching Them. by Johann Matthäus Bechstein

Maldives High Court Mali Supreme Court or Cour Supreme Malta Constitutional Court; Court of Appeal; judges for both courts are appointed by the president on the advice of the prime minister Marshall Islands Supreme Court; High Court; Traditional Rights Court Mauritania Supreme Court or Cour Supreme; Court of Appeals; lower courts Mauritius Supreme Court Mayotte Supreme Court or Tribunal Superieur d'Appel Mexico Supreme Court of Justice or Suprema Corte de Justicia Nacional (justices or ministros are appointed by the president with consent of the Senate) Micronesia, Federated States of Supreme Court Moldova Supreme Court; Constitutional Court (the sole authority for constitutional judicature) Monaco Supreme Court or Tribunal Supreme (judges appointed by the monarch on the basis of nominations by the National Council) Mongolia Supreme Court (serves as appeals court for people's and provincial courts but rarely overturns verdicts of lower courts; judges are nominated by the General Council of Courts and approved by the president)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Folks don't seem to remember what the women did in those days, so it's no use keeping relics of 'em," answered the old lady, who would have owned herself mistaken if she could have looked forward to 1876, when the town celebrated its centennial, and proudly exhibited the little scissors with which Mrs. Barrett cut paper for cartridges, among other ancient trophies of that earlier day.
— from Spinning-Wheel Stories by Louisa May Alcott

Such meats might, in some circumstances, have been eaten without sin, but not when this was exacted out of a motive of superstition.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler