And similarly Christian preachers who have commended the religious life as really the happiest, have not thought genuine religion irreconcilable with the conviction that each man’s own happiness is his most near and intimate concern.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Now, the game can never end in a draw.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

It would be nice to become a mechanic, a judge, a commander of a steamer, a scientist; to do something into which she could put all her powers, physical and spiritual, and to be tired out and sleep soundly at night; to give up her life to something that would make her an interesting person, able to attract interesting people, to love, to have a real family of her own. . . .
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If not, the Guards will not so much as see a little smoke.”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And now 'tis night, the guardian moon Sails her allotted course on high,
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

He tells me now the great question is, whether a Parliament or no Parliament; and says the Parliament itself cannot be thought able at present to raise money, and therefore it will be to no purpose to call one.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The mortal consorts of Zeus have been such a favourite theme with poets, painters, and sculptors, that it is necessary to give some account of their individual history.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Now the ghosts of those who have perished by violence are surly and apt to wreak their vengeance on their slayers whenever an opportunity offers.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Lucan was a nephew of M. Annaeus Novatus (the Gallio of Acts xviii.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

It is a small forest beneath the large one, too near the ground for the latter to perceive it, too humble, too securely hidden to be reached by its grand orchestra of songs and tempests.
— from The Nabob, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Alphonse Daudet

I was determined not to go back to the penitentiary.
— from Boy Scouts on the Great Divide; Or, The Ending of the Trail by Archibald Lee Fletcher

"You are not to go to sleep again, remember, and be sure and watch Garibaldi, or she will stray away and get lost." "And a good riddance too," Beppi commented under his breath.
— from Lucia Rudini: Somewhere in Italy by Martha Trent

"I have not come to stay, nor to give you our address, nor to do anything of which Primrose would not approve; but after Miss Egerton told me last night all that you wanted to do for us, and how you still loved us, I just had to run round and thank you and kiss you.
— from The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls by L. T. Meade

We propose now to go on and cross the Zambesi just below the Victoria Falls.
— from From the Cape to Cairo: The First Traverse of Africa from South to North by Arthur H. (Arthur Henry) Sharp

The Fathers of the Council must themselves say whether this is or is not the greatest of cankers in the life of the clergy.
— from The Pope, the Kings and the People A History of the Movement to Make the Pope Governor of the World by a Universal Reconstruction of Society from the Issue of the Syllabus to the Close of the Vatican Council by William Arthur

And how was he now to go away and seek another refuge?
— from At His Gates: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

“Why, there’s a ballad that says they put King Rodrigo alive into a tomb full of toads, and adders, and lizards, and that two days afterwards the king, in a plaintive, feeble voice, cried out from within the tomb- They gnaw me now, they gnaw me now, There where I most did sin.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

His experience of other women seemed to give him nothing to go upon with regard to Miss Leyburn.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.