I returned, however, with unabated vigour to my work—a more arduous task than anyone can imagine, who has not felt something like the misery of being charged with the care and direction of a set of mischievous, turbulent rebels, whom his utmost exertions cannot bind to their duty; while, at the same time, he is responsible for their conduct to a higher power, who exacts from him what cannot be achieved without the aid of the superior’s more potent authority; which, either from indolence, or the fear of becoming unpopular with the said rebellious gang, the latter refuses to give.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

El carnero en la ciudad está enteramente proscrito y nunca ha sido admitido a figurar, bajo ninguna forma, sobre la mesa de un criollo, respetuoso de la tradición.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

After that he did not feel so lonely as he had done, and he had indeed been very much alone in London.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Pero`, se tu non vuo' di nostri graffi, non far sopra la pegola soverchio>>.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

“No, father,” said Lucie, yearning and weeping as she kissed her hand, “no.”
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The conditions which one would partly have to create and partly utilize for their genesis; the presumptive methods and tests by virtue of which a soul should grow up to such an elevation and power as to feel a CONSTRAINT to these tasks; a transvaluation of values, under the new pressure and hammer of which a conscience should be steeled and a heart transformed into brass, so as to bear the weight of such responsibility; and on the other hand the necessity for such leaders, the dreadful danger that they might be lacking, or miscarry and degenerate:—these are OUR real anxieties and glooms, ye know it well, ye free spirits!
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The widow likes it not, for she looks very sad.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Santerre's National Force seems lazy to rise; though he made requisitions, he says,—which always dispersed again.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Or with my slipper I'll take you napping, faces slapping Left and right.
— from Lysistrata by Aristophanes

The shock to his nervous system, the dragging out of those interminable hours in the lonely chamber, and the strain upon his physical powers by the absence of nutriment for seven long days and nights, had all combined to shatter a constitution once robust.
— from The Haunted Chamber: A Novel by Duchess

These states—once the spirit of Esoteric Philosophy is grasped—become absolutely necessary from simple logical and analogical considerations.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

From the windows of her room, as the night fell, she looked out across the dripping foliage of the Common.
— from A Modern Chronicle — Complete by Winston Churchill

The other had performed the same office to the corpse of another person of inferior rank, and was now under the same restriction; but not for so long a time.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time by Robert Kerr

" "I shall not forget," said Lionel, pained at the sad words and the sad voice.
— from Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. Brame

He founded churches, seminaries, and monasteries; the new faith spread like wildfire over the land.
— from Bygone Scotland: Historical and Social by David Maxwell

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— from Rebel Spurs by Andre Norton

"Ah yes, and you should know, Colonel 'Aig," the latter continued, the aspirate going under badly in her eagerness, "since you have not for so long a time seen her, that it is always thus with Mademoiselle Beauchamp at her parties.
— from Adrian Savage: A Novel by Lucas Malet