The pious procession had now entered the Abbey; The Door was already closed upon it.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

In the first, Loki, like hunger itself, devoured all that was set before him, but Logi was, in reality, nothing else than ardent fire, and therefore consumed not only the meat but the trough which held it.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

It was natural enough that a warm, open, simple-hearted, honest giant like Razumihin, who had never seen anyone like her and was not quite sober at the time, should lose his head immediately.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He is never expected to act like a nice little gentleman, for he is only a rude little slave.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

So they dared no longer hide the truth from her, but said it was the will of Heaven, and that her birth was only the innocent cause of it; but the little girl mourned sadly about it every day, and thought herself bound to do all she could to bring her brothers back; and she had neither rest nor ease, till at length one day she stole away, and set out into the wide world to find her brothers, wherever they might be, and free them, whatever it might cost her.
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

For generally wherever the ruler and the ruled have nothing in common there is no Friendship because there is no Justice; but the case is as between an artisan and his tool, or between soul and body, and master and slave; all these are benefited by those who use them, but towards things inanimate there is neither Friendship nor Justice: nor even towards a horse or an ox, or a slave quâ slave, because there is nothing in common: a slave as such is an animate tool, a tool an inanimate slave.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

We have based the whole of our notion of intellect, reason, logic, etc., upon this apparent truth (all these things do not exist: they are imaginary syntheses and entities), and we then projected the latter into and behind all things!
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He remembered the gas-jets that were being extinguished along the Boulevard des Italiens when he had met her, when all hope was gone among the errant shades upon that night which had seemed to him almost supernatural and which now (that night of a period when he had not even to ask himself whether he would be annoying her by looking for her and by finding her, so certain was he that she knew no greater happiness than to see him and to let him take her home) belonged indeed to a mysterious world to which one never may return again once its doors are closed.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

However unpleasant this disclosure might sound in his ears, Cortes, nevertheless, embraced the ambassadors most affectionately, and accepted the presents, the value of which I cannot now remember.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

now nothing else there, a mere shell of a camp; the men of it streaming steadily along, without speech, without tobacco; and many of them are across Striegau Bridge by this time!—
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle

180 I am a painter who cannot paint; In my life, a devil rather than saint; In my brain, as poor a creature too: No end to all I cannot do!
— from Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Robert Browning

The Americans had learned self-reliance in their wars with the Indians, and had nearly exterminated them along the coast without British aid.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders by John Lord

Here they came upon a large gathering of tribesmen, and as it was now evident that a great tribal rising had broken out, Major Gibbs was ordered to return and to bring his stores and troops into the Kotal camp without delay.
— from The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War by Winston Churchill

The requirements were as follows: The engine, when in operation, must not exceed three and one-half tons weight, and must, on a level road, be capable of drawing day by day fifteen tons, inclusive of the weight of wagons, fifteen miles per hour.
— from The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke

It was therefore nothing else than a preliminary measure devised to insure the success of this second act, and prevent the recurrence of the former "defect in the laws."
— from The Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thébaud

They were New York and New England troops and they did not suspect the presence of an enemy.
— from The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War's Eve by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

To do so would be neither mild nor safe, nor easy to arrange.
— from Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 by Newton, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron

As evidence they are not entitled to a thought.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

At times she is near enough to a hawk to catch one glance from his bright, observant, defiant eye—a different glance from that of the caged bird.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 20, No. 33, November 1877 by Various