And one thing besides will be manifest, viz., that Rusticien de Pise was no Frenchman!"[10] The same discretion is shown even more prominently in a passage of one of his compilations, which contains the romances of Arthur, Gyron, and Meliadus (No. 6975—see last note but one):— "No doubt," Rustician says, "other books tell the story of the Queen Ginevra and Lancelot differently from this; and there were certain passages between them of which the Master, in his concern for the honour of both those personages, will say not a word."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Thou, O Nile, didst remain, as the utmost boundary of her long wanderings.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Why should I be so afraid of not doing right?
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

[108] which is normally accompanied with a specific pleasure which we call ‘æsthetic,’ but has often no discoverable relation to the general usefulness or agreeableness of the thing discerned to be beautiful: indeed, we often recognise this kind of excellence in things hurtful and dangerous.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Many courtiers likewise, when the king lieth near, and attendants of noblemen, do repair to these exercises; and while the hope of victory doth inflame their minds, do show good proof how serviceable they would be in martial affairs.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

After thou shalt rightly have considered these things with thyself; fancy not anything else in the world any more to be of any weight and moment but this, to do that only which thine own nature doth require; and to conform thyself to that which the common nature doth afford.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

The intimation that matters had reached the point of the occasion being destined to constitute a “true birthday of the heart” caused Chichikov to become a little confused; wherefore he made modest reply that, as a matter of fact, he was neither of distinguished origin nor distinguished rank.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Bent upon this retreat, he went abroad in the morning, on pretence of acting in the concerns of his friend Don Diego, and having hired a post-chaise to be ready at the dawning of next day, returned to his lodgings, where he cajoled the Spaniard with a feigned report of his negotiation; then, securing his most valuable effects about his person, arose with the cock, repaired to the place at which he had appointed to meet the postillion with the carriage, and set out for England without further delay, leaving the unhappy Zelos to the horrors of indigence, and the additional agony of this fresh disappointment.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

If possible, I would settle somewhere near you, for the most joyful piece of news, dear Rodya, I have kept for the end of my letter: know then, my dear boy, that we may, perhaps, be all together in a very short time and may embrace one another again after a separation of almost three years!
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And this infection of nature doth remain, yea, in them that are regenerated; whereby the lust of the flesh, called in Greek, Phronema sarkos , which some do expound the wisdom, some sensuality, some the affection, some the desire, of the flesh, is not subject to the law of God.
— from The Book of Religions Comprising the Views, Creeds, Sentiments, or Opinions, of All the Principal Religious Sects in the World, Particularly of All Christian Denominations in Europe and America, to Which are Added Church and Missionary Statistics, Together With Biographical Sketches by John Hayward

They were repeated over and over again; offenders, no doubt, retired f
— from Mediæval London, Volume 1: Historical & Social by Walter Besant

For the plain discovery of such things as the law of God or nature do require of us, so that law which of itself hath power to bind, cometh from the priests and ministers of the Lord neither ἀντοκρατορικῶς nor νομοθετικῶς, but declarativè , Mal.
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

Recall the actions that followed, after she had been exhausted by her first successful efforts at self-control—the withdrawal to the window to conceal her face; the clutch at the curtain when she felt herself sinking; the harshness of manner under which she concealed her emotions when she ventured to speak to him; the reiterated inconsistencies and vacillations of conduct that followed, all alike due to the protest of Nature, desperately resisted to the last—and say if I did her injustice when I believed her to be incapable of running the smallest risk of discovery at the prompting of maternal love.
— from Little Novels by Wilkie Collins

“I fancy that is just the usual result of neglected duty,” responded Tom.
— from The Bungalow Boys North of Fifty-Three by John Henry Goldfrap

An examination of a list of nursing diagnoses reveals that specific knowledge from disciplines such as medicine, psychology, anthropology, sociology, and epidemiology is what is required to solve the problems to which the diagnoses refer.
— from Nursing as Caring: A Model for Transforming Practice by Savina O'Bryan Schoenhofer

The Guesten-hall of St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, still remains, and is a very noble building, 150 feet long by 50 broad, of Norman date, raised on an undercroft.
— from Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition by Edward Lewes Cutts

Only now did realization come that at no time during the past moons since Dylara had come into his life did he have the slightest chance to win her love.
— from The Return of Tharn by Howard Browne

The dark, large, and flashing eyes of Nina di Raselli, just bedewed, were fixed proudly on the hero of her choice: and pride, even more than joy, gave a richer carnation to her cheek, and the presence of a queen to her noble and rounded form.
— from Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron