So saying, he advanced and posted himself in the middle of the road along which the friars were coming, and as soon as he thought they had come near enough to hear what he said, he cried aloud, “Devilish and unnatural beings, release instantly the highborn princesses whom you are carrying off by force in this coach, else prepare to meet a speedy death as the just punishment of your evil deeds.” The friars drew rein and stood wondering at the appearance of Don Quixote as well as at his words, to which they replied, “Senor Caballero, we are not devilish or unnatural, but two brothers of St. Benedict following our road, nor do we know whether or not there are any captive princesses coming in this coach.” “No soft words with me, for I know you, lying rabble,” said Don Quixote, and without waiting for a reply he spurred Rocinante and with levelled lance charged the first friar with such fury and determination, that, if the friar had not flung himself off the mule, he would have brought him to the ground against his will, and sore wounded, if not killed outright.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

If any, positively, connivance, introduction of emulation (material, a prosperous rival agency of publicity: moral, a successful rival agent of intimacy), depreciation, alienation, humiliation, separation protecting the one separated from the other, protecting the separator from both.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

'I was not in the way, ma'amselle,' replied Annette, 'when the first party came in from the mountains, and the last party is not come back yet, so I don't know, whether there are any prisoners; but it is expected back to-night, or to-morrow, and I shall know then, perhaps.' Emily enquired if she had ever heard the servants talk of prisoners.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

It is true that the persons concerned imagine they are promoting their own happiness; but their real aim, which is one they are unconscious of, is to bring forth an individual which can be begotten by them alone.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

Sir Stephen Fox, in discourse, told him how he is selling some land he hath, which yields him not above three per cent., if so much, and turning it into money, which he can put out at ten per cent.; and, as times go, if they be like to continue, it is the best way for me to keep money going so, for aught
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Then he added: "Our peaceful cemetery is there, some hundred feet below the surface of the waves.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Curiously enough, too, the proof on this point comes, I should say, every bit as much from the south, as from the north.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

To begin with, there was only just time for Peter and Bobbie and Phyllis to rush into the wash-house, pushing the young and open-mouthed Perks children in front of them.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Such a privilege carries its dangers and obligations.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

In the clear morning light he gazed now at the city and now at the plan, considering its details, and the assurance of possessing it agitated and awed him. “But could it be otherwise?”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

See, here his picture; could I make it speak, How it would kill you!
— from Two Women, 1862; a Poem by Constance Fenimore Woolson

The period covered in this volume begins with the establishment of the Fort in 1819 and ends with the temporary abandonment of the site as a military post in 1858.
— from Old Fort Snelling, 1819-1858 by Marcus Lee Hansen

The High {126} Steward's commission, after reciting that an indictment hath been found against the peer by the grand jury of the proper county, impowereth him to send for the indictment, to convene the prisoner before him at such day and place as he shall appoint, then and there to hear and determine the matter of such indictment; to cause the peers triers, tot et tales, per quos rei veritas melius sciri poterit , at the same day and place to appear before him; veritateque inde compertâ , to proceed to judgment according to the law and custom of England, and thereupon to award execution.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

It is an old Portuguese custom, I believe, to display the picture of the monarch in his absence on occasions of ceremony.
— from Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Callcott, Maria, Lady

Thus the delinquencies of the former years were met and provided for, the rate of taxation was not oppressive, and the town, being under the control of its own citizens, untrammelled by military authority, rapidly moved forward, public confidence in its ability to meet its obligations was restored and thus municipal affairs were placed in a satisfactory condition.
— from The History of the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia by S. J. (Silvanus Jackson) Quinn

The sole druggist in a small town might occasionally get extortionate prices from particular customers in times of dire need, but he would thus drive away much of his custom, and would tempt a fairer and less grasping competitor to come in.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

Editorial note T he Editor desires to make grateful acknowledgment to the editors and publishers of the several periodicals in which the papers contained in this volume were first brought into print, for their friendly courtesy in permitting the collection of these papers for preservation in book form.
— from Threads of Grey and Gold by Myrtle Reed

2) Par conséquent il dépend de la Russie d'éviter la guerre.
— from Why We Are at War (2nd Edition, revised) by University of Oxford. Faculty of Modern History

A female reader, who in similar dangers has suffered as a patient, can imagine how the Chamberlain's wife felt when she grasped, with the hard substance, something soft, and drew it forth, and then saw what it was.
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I. by Jean Paul

"That all perfection consists in unity, Comte apparently considers to be a maxim which no sane man thinks of questioning: it never seems to enter into his conceptions that any one could object ad initio , and ask, Why this universal systematizing, systematizing, systematizing?
— from The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 by Various