So that you see I had reasons enough for despair if I chose to indulge it.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

J. Crétineau-Joly, L'Église Romaine en face de la Revolution , II. 143 (1859).
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

But he'd rather earn fifteen dollars a week and own his soul.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

Wars of opinion between two states belong also to the class of wars of intervention; for they result either from doctrines which one party desires to propagate among its neighbors, or from dogmas which it desires to crush,—in both cases leading to intervention.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

He has recently escaped from Dr Eustace’s private asylum for demented gentlemen.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Crétineau Joly, L'Église Romaine en face de la Révolution , I. p. 93.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Take of Red Roses exungulated fifteen drams, Liquorice seven drams, wood of Aloes, yellow Sanders, of each three drams, Cinnamon five drams, Cloves, Mace, of each two drams and an half, Gum Arabic and Tragacanth, of each eight scruples, Nutmegs, Cardamoms the less, Galanga of each one dram, Indian Spikenard two scruples, make it into a powder to be kept in a glass for use.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

This correspondence will be found in L'Église Romaine en face de la Révolution , by Crétineau Joly, who published it from the documents seized by the Pontifical Government at the death of one of the members.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Eckert with his work on Freemasonry in 1852 had given the incentive; Crétineau Joly followed in 1859 with L'Eglise Romaine en face de la Révolution , reproducing the documents of the Haute Vente Romaine; in 1868 came the book of the German anti-Semite Goedsche, and in the following year on a higher plane the work of Gougenot Des Mousseaux, Le Juif, le Judaïsme, et la Judaïsation des Peuples Chrétiens .
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

At this period, there was no regular theatre at Rouen; indeed, buildings reserved exclusively for dramatic performances were hardly known outside the capital.
— from Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams

"Ripe enough for doin' up.
— from The Letter of Credit by Susan Warner

D. 124 Rev. John Moore 147 Rev. Henry Bacon 148 Rev. Elbridge G. Brooks, D. D. 161 Rev. Ebenezer Fisher, D. D. 163 Rev. Lucius R. Paige, D.
— from Fifty Notable Years Views of the Ministry of Christian Universalism During the Last Half-Century; with Biographical Sketches by John G. (John Greenleaf) Adams

The same reasons exist for distinguishing between oral and written publications of private matters, as is afforded in the law of defamation by the restricted liability for slander as compared with the liability for libel.
— from The Right to Privacy by Samuel D. (Samuel Dennis) Warren

I told you I would ride every fair day with him, and I am hoping it will rain.
— from The Triflers by Frederick Orin Bartlett

Camille appeared to me what is called a good fellow; of rather exaggerated feelings, devoid of reflection or judgment, as ignorant as he was unthinking, not deficient in wit, but in politics possessing not even the first elements of reason.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume I. by Walter Scott

But such terms are merely relative; every fairly dressed man is a dude to somebody.
— from The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York by Edward Eggleston

Wherever we are tiresome we may be pretty sure of this, and after all, as Madame de Staël says, "good intentions go for nothing in works of art"—much better in French, " La bonne intention n'est de rien en fait d'esprit ."
— from Maria Edgeworth by Helen Zimmern