I received it with respect, and with the expression of the deepest gratitude.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
It may be fairly supposed, that every man will obey the dictates of his interest; and if he accepts the benefit, he is obliged to sustain the expense, of the transaction.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
TO-MORROW’S A NEW DAY CHAPTER V — OF CONSCIENCE CHAPTER VI — USE MAKES PERFECT CHAPTER VII — OF RECOMPENSES OF HONOUR CHAPTER VIII — OF THE AFFECTION OF FATHERS TO THEIR CHILDREN CHAPTER IX — OF THE ARMS OF THE PARTHIANS CHAPTER X — OF BOOKS CHAPTER XI — OF CRUELTY CHAPTER XII — APOLOGY FOR RAIMOND SEBOND CHAPTER XIII — OF JUDGING OF THE DEATH OF ANOTHER CHAPTER XIV — THAT OUR MIND HINDERS ITSELF CHAPTER XV — THAT
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
She has a carriage, then, this niece of the doctor?”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
On the day appointed I had a long and friendly interview with the father of my late niece.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
unconscious of thy doom, All innocence and opening bloom; Laugh on!
— from Poems by Victor Hugo
Up; and my wife, and I, and W. Hewer to White Hall, where she set us down; and there I spoke with my Lord Peterborough, to tell him of the day for his dining with me being altered by my Lord Sandwich from Friday to Saturday next.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys
The eldest is the son of the Duke d’Anneci, the second of Count d’Egmont, and the youngest is the offspring of Maison-Rouge, who has just married the Romainville.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
The craft had not been hoisted on the davits.
— from Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat; Or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure by Victor Appleton
How steadily the rain persists!" Indeed, on every hand there was in progress a trickling and a splashing sound as though the weeping earth were venting soft, sorrowful sobs over the departure of summer before winter and its storms should arrive.
— from Through Russia by Maksim Gorky
By 18 the time you get them I shall be on the deep sea.
— from The Haunted Mine by Harry Castlemon
The working men of our towns possess public power, while most of them do not directly bear public burdens.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer
"Enjoyed" would have been the word, only that so far the men of the detachment had not struck very heavy luck with the game.
— from Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants; or, Handling Their First Real Commands by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
From the copse on the warmer days comes occasionally the deep hollow bass of the wood pigeon.
— from Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies
Of course they asked many eager questions about their own kindred after he had mentioned the chief points of the disastrous flood.
— from The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River Flood by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
THE MEN OF THE DESERT.
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin
Snow showers had been falling much of the day, there was a pitiless east wind, and as darkness came on snow fell persistently.
— from Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 1 (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Passing now from the world of nations to the [pg 365] world of nature we observe how little the genuine Oracles of Jeremiah have to tell us of the Divine Power over this; yet the little is proclaimed with as firm assurance as of God's control of the history of mankind.
— from Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by George Adam Smith
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