It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

They are everywhere, above us, on our left, on our right; they environ us on all sides.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The fresh leaves of Ivy, boiled in vinegar, and applied warm to the sides of those that are troubled with the spleen, ache, or stitch in the sides, do give much ease: The same applied with some Rosewater, and oil of Roses, to the temples and forehead, eases the head-ache, though it be of long continuance.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

In a few days I had quite recovered from the hardships I had undergone, and then the tailor, knowing that it was the custom for the princes of our religion to learn a trade or profession so as to provide for themselves in times of ill-fortune, inquired if there was anything I could do for my living.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

XXXVI A strange adventure—in consequence of which I am extremely happy—Crampley does me in offices with the Captain; but his malice is defeated by the good-nature and friendship of the surgeon—we return to Port Royal—our Captain gets the command of a larger ship, and is succeeded by an old man—Brayl is provided for—we receive orders to sail for England When my patients were all in a fair way, my companion and commander, whose name was Brayl, carried me up the country to the house of a rich planter, with whom he was acquainted, where we were sumptuously entertained, and in the evening set out on our return to the ship.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

He always slouched, locomotively, with his eyes on the ground; and, when accosted or otherwise required to raise them, he looked up in a half-resentful, half-puzzled way, as though the only thought he ever had was, that it was rather an odd and injurious fact that he should never be thinking.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

During these her last hours, she conversed much with St. Aubert and Emily, on the prospect of futurity, and on other religious topics.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The copy in this case bore more of outside resemblance to the mother, in whose sex frog-features, accompanied with fresh-colored cheeks and a well-rounded figure, are compatible with much charm for a certain order of admirers.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

With his pale, beautiful, and intellectual face, as a reminder of what genius was in him, it was impossible, of course, not to treat him always with deferential courtesy, and, to our occasional request that he would not probe too deep in a criticism, or that he would erase a passage colored too highly with his resentments against society and mankind, he readily and courteously assented-far more yielding than most men, we thought, on points so excusably sensitive.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Our commander, attended by the greater part of our cavalry and foot, all well armed, as, indeed, we were at all times, had proceeded to the Tlatelulco: by command of Motecusuma, a number of caziques had come to meet us on our road there.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

All existences known in experience are contingent, and so lead us (owing to the constitution of our Reason) to assume an absolutely necessary Being as their ground and cause.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

The Borussians honored particularly the famous oak of Remowe, to which Percunos, Pikollos, and Potrympos paid a daily visit.
— from Myths of the Rhine by M. Xavier

Delegates were sent out on repeated tours into the province to carry on the propaganda and agitation.
— from Syndicalism in France by Lewis L. (Lewis Levitzki) Lorwin

What is seen, however, indicates that our ship is out of reckoning; that, as for some time past suspected, something has gone wrong with the chronometers.
— from Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army Gwalior and the Battle of Maharajpore, 1843; the Gold Coast of Africa, 1847-48; the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58; the expedition to China, 1860-61; the Siege of Paris, 1870-71; etc. by Gordon, Charles Alexander, Sir

Yet he knew there was only one road to the Mission.
— from Private Spud Tamson by R. W. Campbell

As the history of one of the firm confessors of the old struggle for religious freedom, of a genial-hearted and pleasant scholar, the friend of Penn and Milton, and the suggester of Paradise Regained, we trust our hurried sketch has not been altogether without interest; and that, whatever may be the religious views of our readers, they have not failed to recognize a good and true man in Thomas Ellwood.
— from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VI. (Of VII) Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, Plus Personal Sketches and Tributes and Historical Papers by John Greenleaf Whittier

The Duke tried in vain to strengthen himself, by making overtures of reconciliation to Mr. Pitt, and at last resigned, November 11, 1756.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 7 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

Canon Taylor traces the origin of Runes to a Greek source, namely, the Thracian or second Ionian alphabet, which, through the intercourse of the Greek colonists at the mouth of the Danube with the Goths south of the Baltic, was introduced in a modified form into Northern Europe, and had become established as a Runic "Futhork" as early as the Christian era.
— from The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire by S. W. Partington

The next room was 18 feet by 10 feet; shamefully out of repair, the wooden partition falling to pieces.
— from Notes on Old Edinburgh by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird