In the evening, after the performance, which was to be the last, I took the bank according to my promise: I lost a few sequins, but was caressed by everybody, and that is much more pleasant than winning, when we are not labouring under the hard necessity of making money.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The truth is, if we look at the heart of the matter, a Protestant born in Paris is less a Frenchman than is a Catholic born in Geneva.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

It imbues itself with its own life—pets and punishes itself like a favourite child.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

But in order to discover such a principle, I looked about for an act of the understanding which comprises all the rest, and is distinguished only by various modifications or phases, in reducing the multiplicity of representation to the unity of thinking in general: I found this act of the understanding to consist in judging.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Now he had the air of a man who has found his place in life, and fills it with a confidence and an assurance which was, to say the least, impressive.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Page 299 Like Kuan Kung, he is shown bearing in his arms a male child—indicating a promise of numerous progeny, including literati and famous officials.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

The calm places in life are filled with power and its spasms with resource.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

“To sign the name of a filibuster dead more than ten years!” “A filibuster!” “It’s a seditious joke!” “There being ladies present—” Padre Irene looked around for the joker and saw Padre Salvi, who was seated at the right of the Countess, turn as white as his napkin, while he stared at the mysterious words with bulging eyes.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

[121] was held in Oxford to decide whether Richard Cary could, without prejudice to the King or others, bestow on the Friars Minors a place in the suburb of Oxford, adjacent to [Pg 20] their property, and measuring five perches in length and five in breadth.
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

Now how Harry sped at the prison I learnt afterwards; for at this point his tale was cut short; but I will put the story here, where it seems fittest.
— from Andrew Golding: A Tale of the Great Plague by Annie E. Keeling

"But do I play it like a Friedheim?" he persisted.
— from Melomaniacs by James Huneker

They were printed at Paris in Latin and French, in 1704.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

The wild, south-west Monsoon has risen, With broad, gray wings of gloom, While here, from out my dreary prison, I look, as from a tomb—Alas!
— from Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons by Arabella M. Willson

Around the lower part of the skirt a heavy pattern in leaves and flowers was embroidered with pure silver spangles and bugles
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

He recalled one of his old subjects, Dual Personality, and discussed various instances that flitted through his mind—Jekyll and Hyde phases in literature and fact.
— from Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 by Albert Bigelow Paine