As to anyone who has not endured privation having any notion of the matter, it is simply absurd.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Kneeling down, he then said his prayers, put off his clothes unto his shirt, and was chained to the post, having a number of fagots under him, and a thing made like a firkin, with pitch and tar in it, over his head.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Arsène Lupin remains in prison just as long as it pleases him, and not one minute more.”
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

Naturally, there is a reason, but not a moral one; for it lies in the physical habit and necessity of things.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Almost every prison has a nickname of this kind, either from the name of the Governor, or from some local circumstance.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Certainly these people have a nobility of character which entitles them to race equality.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

Anyway, Titorelli talks a lot and I often have to push him away, not only because he's bound to be lying but also, most of all, because a businessman like me who's already close to breaking point under the weight of his own business worries can't pay too much attention to other people's.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

Formerly people had almost no other way of communicating their thoughts than by speech.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

These two parties had always negotiated (on the true principle of credit) not as government and subject, but as equal dealers, on the footing of mutual advantage.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Taken for all in all, I conceive General Washington to have been the greatest man of the eighteenth century, but to me his greatness chiefly consists in that balance of mind which enabled him to recognize when an old order had passed away, and to perceive how a new order could be best introduced.
— from The Theory of Social Revolutions by Brooks Adams

Doña Vicenta Monina y Pontejos, heiress and niece of the celebrated Count de Florida-Blanca.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1831-1835 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

[279] [280] Under a glass beneath the picture hung a nosegay of withered flowers, which were, no doubt, half a century old too, at least they appeared so.
— from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. First Series by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Long before 1905, the Punjab had a network of privately organised, privately financed, unaided schools and other charitable institutions, over which the Government had little effective control.
— from Young India An interpretation and a history of the nationalist movement from within by Lala Lajpat Rai

As a matter of fact he did visit her with some regularity; for she managed, with a perversity known only to imps of a like nature, to catch a severe chill which puzzled her attendants, none of them knowing of a certain feverishly delightful ten minutes spent in hanging out of the window holding an interesting conversation with the gardener's boy below on the subject of broken bones.
— from Afterwards by Kathlyn Rhodes

[Footnote 52: Distinguished as an author in chemistry and physiology, and as a philosophical historian: a native of England, but long a professor in New York University.]
— from Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Benj. N. (Benjamin Nicholas) Martin

She had poor health and no one to help her to take care of the younger children, and I had to work and do the best I could with my books, hoping that the time would come that I should see myself sitting in some school studying, the same time asking mother to let two of the other children go to school every day.
— from A Slave Girl's Story Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold. by Kate Drumgoold

The pope had also need of money to bring matters to an end with Louis XII.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Moreover every successful party has a number of hangers-on for the sake of political spoils, and some who follow its fortunes {312} with no purpose save to fish in troubled waters.
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith