CHAPTER XXIX PARTICULARS OF A TWILIGHT WALK We now see the element of folly distinctly mingling with the many varying particulars which made up the character of Bathsheba Everdene.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Make , v. Phr. make away : To make away with; to kill.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

The speaker's most valuable possession is personality—that indefinable, imponderable something which sums up what we are, and makes us different from others; that distinctive force of self which operates appreciably on those whose lives we touch.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

She then thanked me very prettily for my advice, but informed me at the same time that it was impossible for her to follow it.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Under these circumstances, believing that they had little chance of repressing in woman the most vehement passions of the human heart, they held that the surer way was to teach her the art of combating those passions for herself.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

nasci miserum, vivere poena, angustia mori.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

January 7th, 1797.—Alvinzi begins his new attack on Rivoli, while Provera tries to get to Mantua with 11,000 men viâ Padua and Legnago.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

"And what's more," said Samson Carrasco, "I am, as all the world knows, a very famous poet, and I'll be always making verses, pastoral, or courtly, or as it may come into my head, to pass away our time in those secluded regions where we shall be roaming.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Little Bizen greeted me very politely, said he had heard a great deal about me, but had not had a previous opportunity of meeting me, so had taken advantage of this farewell entertainment to make my acquaintance.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

The information society is the society where the most valued product is information.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

It seems that the most delicate sentiments were preserved intact amid the coarsest manners and the most violent passions.
— from Myths of the Rhine by M. Xavier

If it is a merely vulgar picture, we shall get the man’s dress and shape of his face, but little or no expression: if it is a pathetic portrait, or picture of passion, we shall get one particular temporary expression of his face—perhaps joy, sorrow, anger, disgust—but still one which may have passed any moment, and left his face quite different; but if the picture is one of the noblest kind, we shall read the man’s whole character there; just all page 236 p. 236
— from True Words for Brave Men: A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' Libraries by Charles Kingsley

She painted the most vivid portraits of the various eminent men whose aid she sought, and who invariably tried to dissuade her from embarking on a literary career.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, June 1885 by Various

The questions which he was wont to deal with so fondly, so wisely, the great problems of the soul, were all the more vital, perhaps, because the personal concern in them was increased by the translation to some other being of the men who had so often tried with him to fathom them here.
— from Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) by William Dean Howells

The man on whom he might have leaned for support, had he been capable of comprehending his character, and of understanding the age in which he had himself been called upon to reign, was, through Philip's own insanity, converted into the instrument by which his most valuable provinces were, to be taken from him, and eventually re-organized into: an independent commonwealth.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

"I placed the sealed envelope in my suit-case, together with my other most valuable possessions; which, with the exception of some of your dear letters, were worth about twopence; at the moment I'd nowhere else to put it.
— from A Woman Perfected by Richard Marsh

Hence, many volumes printed in a foreign type at this period are found in our collections.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

As a tutor he had to deal with many of these same boys, and others like them, in the still more vivacious period of their early college life.
— from The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Never mind, Vic, push on,” said Ian; “of course he would make Tony lie flat down.”
— from The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River Flood by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The native chief took the scrap of paper, glanced about in caution, and crammed it into a bead-woven poke wherein were his most valuable possessions.
— from The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage