Upon his drawing Yorick's curtain, and asking how he felt himself, Yorick looking up in his face took hold of his hand,—and after thanking him for the many tokens of his friendship to him, for which, he said, if it was their fate to meet hereafter,—he would thank him again and again,—he told him, he was within a few hours of giving his enemies the slip for ever.—I hope not, answered Eugenius, with tears trickling down his cheeks, and with the tenderest tone that ever man spoke.—I hope not, Yorick, said he.—Yorick replied, with a look up, and a gentle squeeze of Eugenius's hand, and that was all,—but it cut Eugenius to his heart.—Come,—come, Yorick, quoth Eugenius, wiping his eyes, and summoning up the man within him,—my dear lad, be comforted,—let not all thy spirits and fortitude forsake thee at this crisis when thou most wants them;—who knows what resources are in store, and what the power of God may yet do for thee!—Yorick laid his hand upon his heart, and gently shook his head;—For my part, continued Eugenius, crying bitterly as he uttered the words,—I declare I know not, Yorick, how to part with thee, and would gladly flatter my hopes, added Eugenius, chearing up his voice, that there is still enough left of thee to make a bishop, and that I may live to see it.—I beseech thee, Eugenius, quoth Yorick, taking off his night-cap as well as he could with his left hand,—his
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The 2nd of May was the last day on which the Yokohama people were permitted by the native authorities to send away their property to Yedo.
— 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

is not all this smoke and wind?
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

In here are some so wretched and mean (for the number amounts to six and thirty thousand) that they must pack five or six together, to produce one ear of corn, and thence take their several names; three to a door—that of the plank, that of the hinge, and that of the threshold.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Smellest thou not already the shambles and cookshops of the spirit? Steameth not this city with the fumes of slaughtered spirit? Seest thou not the souls hanging like limp dirty rags?—And they make newspapers also out of these rags!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There are two [Pg 120] lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Deira was bounded on the south by the Humber; on the north, according to some authorities, by the Tyne, according to others, by the Tees.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

At the same time, he made these conceptions valid of phenomena, because he did not allow to sensibility a peculiar mode of intuition, but sought all, even the empirical representation of objects, in the understanding, and left to sense naught but the despicable task of confusing and disarranging the representations of the former.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Knut went northwards along the shore, and there came to him men from the herads, and all paid homage to him; he stayed in Eikundasund for some while.
— from The Viking Age. Volume 2 (of 2) The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

(Lessons in Office of St. Bridget.) Encouraged by her example, three, or, as some say, eight, other ladies made their vows with her, and in compliance with the wish of the parents of these her new associates, the saint agreed to found a religious residence for herself and them in the vicinity.
— from The Life of Saint Bridget, Virgin and Abbess by Anonymous

He had no object in view, no reason for hastening, and the act seemed one of folly in a man of his years; but he felt the desire come upon him, and he ran, inflating his chest with the free air; and perhaps there have been times when, moved by similar impulses, men of the present day have felt, if they have not acted, the same as Septimus Hardon.
— from Mad: A Story of Dust and Ashes by George Manville Fenn

He did not ask to see a subscription list, or inquire what other people were giving.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

His legs were very weak, having had, it was thought, some foul play in his youth, or rather before he was born, that he was not able to stand at seven years of age—that weakness made him ever leaning on other men's shoulders.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

Her daughters were not allowed to sell at the bazaar.
— from The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel by Selma Lagerlöf

His lordship was hunting a mare's nest, as they say, and fancied he should be this week nominated either of the Admiralty or Board of Trade.
— from George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life by George Augustus Selwyn

"That is not all the story, and you know it, Dick, so you may as well tell me now, for I shall get it sooner or later.
— from The Marines Have Landed by Giles Bishop

These formed a permanent exhibition, although the work exhibited was not always the same, as each month the artists had the right to change their works there for others, and replace any that had been sold.
— from Victor Victorious by Cecil Starr Johns