Decently as I could, I told Bartleby that in six days' time he must unconditionally leave the office.
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

Therefore conscience, which makes us love the one and hate the other, though it is independent of reason, cannot develop without it.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Decently as I could, I told Bartleby that in six days time he must unconditionally leave the office.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

The Grave-diggers make us laugh: the old Countryman who brings the [396] asps to Cleopatra makes us smile at least.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Moreover, he may usefully lead to other and more complex matters, as will appear later.
— from Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature by Arnold Bennett

There were a great many parties made up like those of our friends—of somebody in love with somebody, surrounded by chaperons.
— from Tenterhooks by Ada Leverson

She made Uncle Lovejoy take off all his nice clothes, and the young man, too, and she cooked the game chicken for dinner.
— from Making Up with Mr. Dog Hollow Tree Stories by Albert Bigelow Paine

; his resemblance to Buddha, 302 ; his theory of the material universe like that of Herbert Spencer, 303 sqq.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12) by James George Frazer

But there is a small wild American wolf—the coyote—which carries its tail more upright, like that of the true dog; and the coyote seems indeed an intermediate form between the wolf and the original wild dog.
— from Pioneers in Canada by Harry Johnston

They developed great strength, resource, will, and even made them wise in administration, possibly great civilizers, since centralized power is better than anarchies; yet these traits do not make us love them, or revere them.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord