Our distress at having lost our good dog after having brought him all the way there with such difficulty occupied us exclusively during the first two hours we spent in this new home on land.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Judges would end by feeling that they risked their office upon every decision they gave in a case susceptible of general interest, and that it was less essential for them to consider what decision was just, than what would be most applauded by the public, or would least admit of insidious misrepresentation.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

The first use Violence, to make themselves Masters of other mens persons, wives, children, and cattell; the second, to defend them; the third, for trifles, as a word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other signe of undervalue, either direct in their Persons, or by reflexion in their Kindred, their Friends, their Nation, their Profession, or their Name.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

We can see that any form which is represented by few individuals will run a good chance of utter extinction, during great fluctuations in the nature or the seasons, or from a temporary increase in the number of its enemies.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

27 Again, it is said that the norns, that dwell in the fountain of Urd, every day take water from the fountain and take the clay that lies around the fountain and sprinkle therewith the ash, in order that its branches may not wither or decay.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

The dark afternoons and the first December snow seemed to him far livelier than the August sunshine; and that he might make himself the surer about the flight of the days that were carrying him homeward, he stuck twenty-one sticks deep in a corner of the garden, when he was three weeks from the holidays, and pulled one up every day with a great wrench, throwing it to a distance with a vigor of will which would have carried it to limbo, if it had been in the nature of sticks to travel so far.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Quant au client, il achète un morceau de plastique (dans le cas d'un CD) ou un ensemble de pages brochées (dans le cas d'un livre).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

It has already been remarked, that questions of ultimate ends do not admit of proof, in the ordinary acceptation of the term.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

She did not foresee the real results which were to follow the operation: as which of us ever did, when we began a frolic, imagine what earnest that frolic might become before it was concluded?
— from Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Henry Morford

I am of unmixed English descent myself, and quite naturally I look upon our country as the mother of us all."
— from The Whirl: A Romance of Washington Society by Foxcroft Davis

The churchman smiled slightly, threw off his gown, mounted one of the horses with calm and quiet grace, and with scarcely a change of feature, or any other appearance of unusual exertion, displayed his own superiority in military exercises, and foiled the master of arms with his own weapons.
— from Henry of Guise; or, The States of Blois (Vol. 1 of 3) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

From under a bed he, with the aid of our united efforts, dragged out a heavy box, and, throwing back the lid, disclosed a store of weapons.
— from The Young Cavalier: A Story of the Civil Wars by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Judge Douglas cannot show that either of us ever did have anything to do with them.
— from Noted Speeches of Abraham Lincoln, Including the Lincoln-Douglas Debate by Abraham Lincoln

All together, with united forces, we will struggle for a final abolition of the old system and the calling of a Constituent Assembly on the basis of universal, equal, direct, and secret suffrage.
— from Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo

The 12th of April being Tuesday in the Easter week, Master Jenkinson and Master Gray and certain other of us Englishmen dined with the Emperor, where we were served as we had been beforetime.
— from The Discovery of Muscovy by Richard Hakluyt

As the Cardinal gave no indication of curiosity to see Cæsar, Cæsar several times said to Laura: “We ought to call on uncle, eh?” “Do as you choose.
— from Cæsar or Nothing by Pío Baroja

Every phrase of a Beethoven symphony is saturated with emotion, and the work leads us into depths and up to heights of universal experience, disclosing to us tortuous ways and infinite vistas of the possibilities of human feeling.
— from The Gate of Appreciation: Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Carleton Eldredge Noyes

It was pointed out that to create a staff for dealing “with the combinations of strategy and tactics” before any machinery existed for elucidating the essentials of “unit efficiency” did most certainly have the air of putting the cart before the horse.
— from The British Navy in Battle by Arthur Joseph Hungerford Pollen