But this interpretation is of little service to us, because we know the subjective artist only as the poor artist, and in every type and elevation of art we demand specially and first of all the conquest of the Subjective, the redemption from the "ego" and the cessation of every individual will and desire; indeed, we find it impossible to believe in any truly artistic production, however insignificant, without objectivity, without pure, interestless contemplation.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The populace however interposed to rescue them, and a tumult ensued.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

"They will put him in a sack and throw him overboard.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He realised that this was the best policy in his position, because instead of saying too much he would be irritating his enemy by his silence and provoking him into speaking too freely.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[3695] in the more eminent place he is, the more subject to fall.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

D’Artagnan quietly pushed him in again, and by the light of a lamp on the staircase made him ascend the steps backward one by one, keeping his eyes all the time on Mordaunt’s hands, who, however, knowing that it was useless, attempted no resistance.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

The music seemed to put her into a soft, waking dream, and her violet-coloured eyes looked sleepily and confidingly at one from under her long lashes.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

A man who thinks nothing of perjuring himself in the witness-box, and who might not much mind telling a lie even with the Korān on his head, will flinch before the ordeal of a falsehood in the presence of the Dato’ Machap.”
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

and she patted him in such a way on the cheek and head that he looked at her half doubtingly, "and give my respects to Holman and Mrs. Holman.
— from One of Life's Slaves by Jonas Lie

But he was apt to suddenly lose his equilibrium, as if there existed broken places, holes in his being, by which his own self escaped from him amidst a sort of great cloud of smoke that disfigured everything.
— from The Monomaniac (La bête humaine) by Émile Zola

To possess her in addition to his own wealth—what more could a man ask?
— from Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler

With the Pope he also put himself into communication, and the rising was openly and avowedly declared to be a Catholic one.
— from The Story of Ireland by Emily Lawless

The rising tide of industrial revolution represented a climax of centuries of grievance; and when the revolt did come, it was as a demand for the manumission of property held in villanage.
— from Women of England by Bartlett Burleigh James

"Well, I admit we were all pretty hungry, in spite of—well, of course we were all fond of Nita, but—" "What about Lydia?"
— from Murder at Bridge by Anne Austin

Peoples, like individuals, are far from representing with anything approaching completeness such social conceptions as we call violence and right, honesty and bad faith, justice and injustice; each people has its different characteristics, but no one people represents good, or another bad, no one represents brutality, or another civilization.
— from Peaceless Europe by Francesco Saverio Nitti

Perhaps he is also telepathic."
— from The Dueling Machine by Ben Bova