Tell me, doctor, can she possibly love that jawbone of an ass?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Again, he defines "the Infinite" to be "that which is free from all possible limitation; that than which a greater is inconceivable; and which, consequently, can receive no [95] additional attribute or mode o
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

The Young Man's Best Companion , The Farrier's Sure Guide , The Veterinary Surgeon , Paradise Lost , The Pilgrim's Progress , Robinson Crusoe , Ash's Dictionary , and Walkingame's Arithmetic , constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than many a man of opportunities has done from a furlong of laden shelves.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

She had been actually happy all the time; and dozens and dozens of the tiny, pale green points were to be seen in cleared places, looking twice as cheerful as they had looked before when the grass and weeds had been smothering them.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

There was a main gateway of lichen-studded stone, each side pillar surmounted by mouldering heraldic emblems, but besides this central carriage drive I observed several points where there were gaps in the hedge and paths leading through them.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Surely you could not marry a woman who accepts pearls like those you knew the general was going to give me, on the very eve of her marriage?
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

V ARIANTS : Así es que ; por lo tanto ; en consecuencia ; así pues .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Their position lent them shyness, and having an impression that a marriage at a superintendent registrar's office was more private than an ecclesiastical one, they decided to avoid a church this time.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

She was so perfectly lovely that I almost wanted to cry.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

Apotheosized Philosophers The philosophers Lieh Tzŭ, Huai-nan Tzŭ, Chuang Tzŭ, Mo Tzŭ, etc., have also been apotheosized.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

First, because it was on the Olympian border of Thessaly, and as Homer knew that region well, he must have known that Pieria lay to the north of it.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3 I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer. by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

But listen now, good people; let the Fallen Women wait for a day--they will be none the worse for that.
— from Pillars of Society by Henrik Ibsen

It is a matter for regret that the interest taken in the "Ancient Mariner" [Pg 84] and in fragments like "Kubla Khan" and "Christabel" has been at the expense of poems like the "Ode to Dejection" and smaller pieces, gems of poetic thought, finely expressed.
— from Coleridge by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan

After having enjoyed, until our strength was almost expiring, the most delightful, the most intense voluptuousness in which mutual ardour can enfold two young, vigorous, and passionate lovers, the young countess dressed herself, and, kissing her slippers, said she would never part with them as long as she lived.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 04: Return to Venice by Giacomo Casanova

The little one was gravely and patiently striving to pick up, with dimpled fingers, a beam of pink light that fell on the floor through a pane of colored glass in the window-arch, and Eugene was as gravely explaining to him why he could not.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

I also passionately longed to complete what I believed and still believe to be my most correct work.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

These secret plottings, like the weeds that thrust their roots deep into the rice-fields, cannot be taken out without bringing with them some grain, and many an innocent family is now suffering for the hot-headedness of its youth.
— from My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard by Elizabeth Cooper

He had the same clear-cut Saxon face, with clear, honest eyes and proud lips, the same fair hair and stately carriage, but in one respect they differed.
— from Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. Brame

The Caryls lived in a spacious brown stone house, which exteriorly was precisely like the residence of the Conwells.
— from Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir And Other Stories for Boys and Girls by Mary Catherine Crowley