He presented himself at X—, and asked for further interest-hush-money; otherwise he must sell the emerald.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
That sort of thing has almost gone out; and it's a pity.” H2 anchor XVII Our fashion of offering hospitality on the impulse would be as strange here as offering it without some special inducement for its acceptance.
— from Through the Eye of the Needle: A Romance by William Dean Howells
Shall I not use the power to the end for which I received it, instead of moaning and wailing over what comes to pass? H2 anchor XV If what philosophers say of the kinship of God and Man be true, what remains for men to do but as Socrates did:—never, when asked one's country, to answer, "I am an Athenian or a Corinthian," but "I am a citizen of the world.
— from The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, with the Hymn of Cleanthes by Epictetus
The early Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Xenophanes measured their force on this problem of identity.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various
I wouldn't have had this happen for a hundred thousand pounds!' H2 anchor XIII
— from Villa Rubein, and Other Stories by John Galsworthy
Woloda, whom I had asked that morning to come with me, in order that I might not feel quite so shy as when altogether alone, had declined on the ground that for two brothers to be seen driving in one drozhki would appear so horribly “proper.” H2 anchor XVIII.
— from Youth by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
; Thuc. i. 76, 77; viii. 48; Boeckh, "P. E. A." passim; Hartman, "An. Xen. N." cap.
— from The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians by Xenophon
Ctesias, in the second book of his Persian history (Athenaeus, xiv.).
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer
H2 anchor SECOND PART H2 anchor XLVIII.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac
THE GOLDEN PAVILION IV PREPARING FOR A VISITOR BOOK II WHAT THE WRITER AND THE LORD MAYOR DECLARED V THE WRITER APPEARS ON THE SCENE VI TWO DICK WHITTINGTONS VII THE LION MAKES HIS SIGN VIII AN UPSETTING ARTICLE IN THE MORNING PAPER IX THE WRITER PLANS WICKED PLANS BOOK III WHAT THE PUBLIC HEARD ABOUT X THE LION GOES TO COURT XI
— from The Tale of Lal A Fantasy by Raymond Paton
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