Must I then live to see you another's?
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

But one of Rama’s allies, knowing the secret of the king’s invulnerability, transformed himself by magic into the likeness of the king, and going to the hermit asked back his soul.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

They may expel me if they like."
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

She was sitting at the moment in the low chair by the door.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Traffic is what they put for'ard; but it's to do harm to the land and the poor man in the long-run.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Then Paulina, who had been high all these years in the King's favor, because of her kindness to the dead Queen Hermione, said--“I have a statue made in the likeness of the dead Queen, a piece many years in doing, and performed by the rare Italian master, Giulio Romano.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

My intention to learn to trill
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

However, it’s just the same paying it to-day or paying it in a week, but I’ve had so many payments to make in the last two months since my father’s death. . . .
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He was at their mercy, if they let go of him he would fall like a board.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Even the making public of the immorality, which had served as a pretext for the new marriage, he did not mind in the least, for his laxity in morals was already a matter of common knowledge; he discussed his lapses with the theologians as openly as though all of them had been his confessors and spiritual directors; he was also quite ready to repeat his admissions, “as in Confession,” before secular witnesses.
— from Luther, vol. 4 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

"Letty, darling, when I come in I'll tell you all about my adventures and the bears I meet in the lane."
— from The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

In the higher reaches of human nature, as much as in the lower, rationality depends on distinguishing the excellent; and that distinction can be made, in the last analysis, only by an irrational impulse.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

As time went on changes were made in these laws, but the tariff charges kept up the price of grain until late in the nineteenth century, and added greatly to the miseries of the working classes.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris

"Well chosen; Mendez is the least valuable, and we will leave him with the prisoner at the boat.
— from Wolves of the Sea Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur" by Randall Parrish

OF WHAT BEFEL ME IN THE LOW COUNTRIES 87 CHAPTER THE FOURTH.
— from The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala

The Critique is an enquiry into the sources, conditions, scope and limits of our knowledge, both a priori and empirical, resulting in the construction of a new system of immanent metaphysics; in the light of the conclusions thus reached, it also yields an analysis and explanation of the transcendental illusion to which transcendent metaphysics, both as a natural disposition and as a professed science, is due.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

There were, however, a few short moments in the life of Gallienus, when, exasperated by some recent injury, he suddenly appeared the intrepid soldier and the cruel tyrant; till, satiated with blood, or fatigued by resistance, he insensibly sunk into the natural mildness and indolence of his character.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Edward Gibbon

This should be referred to the persons mentioned in the letter who will probably take prompt and vigorous action.
— from Perfect Behavior: A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in All Social Crises by Donald Ogden Stewart

Yes, in the trenches it was the same; they had settled down once more into the lulling secure feeling of the protection of a dirt wall, six feet high, which paradoxically ends by killing them.
— from Behind the Scenes in Warring Germany by Edward Lyell Fox