A person may be aware of the results of this struggle between his inclinations and his theoretical opinions; he suffers from the conflict between doing what is really dear to him and what he has learned will win the approval of others.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Two or three times a week, when it was fine, we drank our coffee in a cool shady arbor behind the house, that I had decorated with hops, and which was very refreshing during the heat; we usually passed an hour in viewing our flowers and vegetables, or in conversation relative to our manner of life, which greatly increased the pleasure of it.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And the infectious poison of that sin had been thus rapidly diffused throughout his moral system.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘So deeply rooted does this horror of the man appear to be,’ said Nicholas, ‘that I can hardly believe he really is his son.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Dusk was beginning to reign; her parlour fire already glowed with twilight ruddiness; but I thought she wished the room dimmer, the hour later.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

A group of Cossack scouts retired down the hill at a trot.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Up and to my office, then come by appointment cozen Tom Trice to me, and I paid him the L20 remaining due to him upon the bond of L100 given him by agreement November, 1663, to end the difference between us about my aunt’s, his mother’s, money.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

For the Andante had begun—very beautiful, but bearing a family likeness to all the other beautiful Andantes that Beethoven had written, and, to Helen’s mind, rather disconnecting the heroes and shipwrecks of the first movement from the heroes and goblins of the third.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

And as soon as it was day, a messenger being despatched to the camp to the consul, they were aroused from sleep with great joy; and the signal being given by ticket, that those persons returned safe who had exposed their persons to evident danger for the preservation of all, rushing out each most anxiously to meet them, they applaud them, congratulate them, they call them singly and collectively their preservers, they give praises and thanks to the gods, they raise Decius to heaven.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

It was the most terrible railway disaster that had ever occurred in France.
— from The Prodigal Returns by Lilian Staveley

But you see he did not really deserve this honor, because he was at heart a greedy bird; and therefore a great shame came upon him, and after that he was never proud nor happy any more.
— from The Curious Book of Birds by Abbie Farwell Brown

A few pages back, I spoke of a man whose furniture had been sold to pay a heavy tax raised on him specially as a secessionist; the same man had also been refused the payment of rent due to him by the Government, unless he would take a false oath.
— from North America — Volume 2 by Anthony Trollope

First, the Church owed to them a real debt; the heroic steadfastness of their deaths contributed much to promote and establish Christianity.
— from Saint John Chrysostom, His Life and Times A sketch of the church and the empire in the fourth century by W. R. W. (William Richard Wood) Stephens

After making my reverences due to her Majesty, according to custom, and said those respects which became me to her Majesty, she sat down; and when I presented my daughters to her, she having expressed much grace and favour to me and mine, bade me sit down, which at first I refused, desiring to wait on her Majesty, as my Queen's mother; but she pressing me again, I sat down; and then she made her discourse of England, and asked questions of the Queen's health and liking of our country, with some little hints of her own and her family's condition, which having continued better than half an hour, I took my leave.
— from Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bt., Ambassador from Charles II to the Courts of Portugal and Madrid. by Ann Fanshawe

Friend Robert they called him, and afterwards they called him Robert Denton till he died."
— from The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Volume 2 by Gilbert Parker

The main road, descending the hill through a long tunnel in the cliffs, crosses the Marina.
— from Naples, Past and Present by Arthur H. (Arthur Hamilton) Norway

There can be no reasonable doubt that his sixth Babylonian dynasty represents the line of kings which ruled in Babylon during the period known as that of the Old Empire in Assyria.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2: Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

[65] CHAPTER VII A SORRY BUSINESS April did not see very much of Roland during the holidays, and was not, on the whole, sorry.
— from The Lonely Unicorn: A Novel by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh