In pursuance of this notable resolution, the services of the mottled-faced gentleman and of two other very fat coachmen—selected by Mr. Weller, probably, with a view to their width and consequent wisdom—were put into requisition; and this assistance having been secured, the party proceeded to the public-house in Portugal Street, whence a messenger was despatched to the Insolvent Court over the way, requiring Mr. Solomon Pell’s immediate attendance.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

No one can be a great thinker who does not recognise that, as a thinker, it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

I could not help saying this; the words came unbidden: I never remember the time when I had not a haunting dread of what might be the degree of my outward deficiency; this dread pressed me at the moment with special force.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

“I can give no reparation to the mother; and as for the law I will obey it when it has been explained to me, and when I am convinced that I have been guilty against it.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Is it not reason that my conscience should be much more engaged when men simply rely upon it?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I see no reason to prevent them.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Republic of the Philippines, Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Technical Bulletin
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Miss Halcombe next returned to the nurse, placed all the gold she then had in her pocket (three sovereigns) in the nurse's hands, and asked when and where she could speak to her alone.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The cortège arrived at Jerusalem on the 20th of the same month, at seven o'clock in the evening, and proceeded at once to the English cemetery, where, by torchlight, the remains of the beloved and venerated prelate were deposited in their last resting place, the Rev. J. Nicolayson reading the service.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

I now read the 8 September entry in General Jodl’s diary, Page 5 of the English translation of Document 1780-PS.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 3 by Various

It was ten o'clock in the morning when the inhabitants of Dresden, now reduced to despair, and speaking freely of capitulation, witnessed his Majesty's arrival.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

The furthest that conjecture can reasonably go in this connection is that one has no right to assume that from the list of the taverns frequented by Johnson the name of the Cheshire Cheese should be excluded.
— from A Garden of Peace: A Medley in Quietude by Frank Frankfort Moore

In 1875 it was thirty-three, and the net revenue to the nation was nearly two million pounds sterling.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders by John Lord

There was now neither time nor room to turn either to the right or left.
— from The Giraffe Hunters by Mayne Reid

Let us now return to the Miocene Age, in which we are to seek for the presence of man.
— from The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races by Emory Adams Allen

[ Contents ] Chapter XXIV Deductions Number of converts not a reliable estimate of mission work—Spurious converts versus Indigenous Christianity—Latitude should be allowed to the Indian Church—We should introduce Christ to India rather than Occidental Christianity—Christianizing sects among Hindus and Muhammadans—Missionary work not restricted to missionaries—Influence of the best of Hindu and Muhammadan thought should be welcomed—The conversion of the nation requires our attention more than that of the individual—Christian Friars adapted to modern missions—A true representation of Christ to India—Misconceptions that must be removed.
— from Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell

She put this question to herself but she could find no reply to it; perhaps she had spent too much at Madame Lachaise's and her employer had judged her character from these purchases.
— from Nobody's Girl (En Famille) by Hector Malot

“Then give the people all encouragement; improve the masses, enlighten them, guard their morals, make them useful, and to such heads as those you will not require to use cold steel.”
— from Under Sentence of Death; Or, a Criminal's Last Hours by Victor Hugo