True that in such a case one does not enjoy the ecstatic raptures of love, but one finds a compensation in the complete control obtained over the woman.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Now the thousand years may be understood in two ways, so far as occurs to me: either because these things happen in the sixth thousand of years or sixth millennium (the latter part of which is now passing), as if during the sixth day, which is to be followed by a Sabbath which has no evening, the endless rest of the saints, so that, speaking of a part under the name of the whole, he calls the last part of the millennium—the part, that is, which had yet to expire before the end of the world—a thousand years; or he used the thousand years as an equivalent for the whole duration of this world, employing the number of perfection to mark the fulness of time.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

"Not exactly that, either," replies Mrs. Chadband, humouring the joke with a hard-favoured smile.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

"Not exactly that, either!" repeats Mr. Guppy.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

He had a few thousand regular cavalry left, but not enough to even retard materially the progress of Wilson's cavalry.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The war in which France [Pg 5] had just been engaged with Germany had been followed in Algeria by an Arab rising, which had spread to the very outskirts of Algiers, and the Mohammedan natives were now experiencing the extreme rigours of Christian repression.
— from Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt Being a Personal Narrative of Events by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

The accident would cost the company thousands of dollars, but to the credit of the company there was to be no effort to evade responsibility.
— from The Iron Boys as Foremen; or, Heading the Diamond Drill Shift by James R. Mears

It is to say that liberty is not a sacred right, but a selfish acquisition; that government does not exist to establish rights, but to protect privileges, and that mankind are not brothers, but foes.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 01, January, 1890 by Various

[1] In the preparation of this essay, I believe that I have examined all, or almost all, the literature of erudition and criticism, old and new, in connection with Ariosto; this will not escape the expert reader, although particular discussions and quotation of titles and pages of books have seemed to me to be superfluous on this occasion.
— from Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille by Benedetto Croce

The victory was for the time complete, though the loss was heavy in proportion to the numbers engaged, the English regiments in particular suffering greatly.
— from Battles of English History by H. B. (Hereford Brooke) George

He looks nice enough to eat right up!
— from Little Prudy by Sophie May

She said he was no good to her, now that he could only crawl, and could not even trap enough rabbits to live on, and she had another man living in her house who would do it for her.
— from The La Chance Mine Mystery by Susan Morrow Jones

There was no more unpopular citizen of Belfast than Lord Pirrie; and the reason was neatly explained to English readers by the Special Correspondent of The Times .
— from Ulster's Stand For Union by Ronald McNeill