Not a soul knew to whom it belonged, he said; and his money and time being both limited, he thought it better to take it home with him at once, than run into vain expenses there: because he was determined he would not leave it as he found it.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

In short, we go in against materialism very much as we should go in , had we a chance, against the second French empire or the Church of Rome, or any other system of things toward which our repugnance is vast enough to determine energetic action, but too vague to issue in distinct argumentation.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Note 76 ( return ) [ The story of the council of Rimini is very elegantly told by Sulpicius Severus, (Hist.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

She was sister to the “heavenly Joanna of Aragon,” on whose loveliness two hundred and eighty Italian poets and rimesters in vain exhausted the resources of several languages;—a loveliness shared by the sister whose device was the “Flower of Love” amaranth blazoned on her shield.
— from The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Stanley Lane-Poole

As a sporting dog, the Clumber is possessed of the very best of noses, a natural inclination both to hunt his game and retrieve it when killed, great keenness and perseverance wonderful endurance and activity considering his massive build, and as a rule is very easy to train, being highly intelligent and more docile and "biddable.
— from Dogs and All about Them by Robert Leighton

Aside from these theoretical views the fact is, that some races inhabit very extensive tracts of the earth's surface, and are now found upon separate continents, while others are very limited in their range.
— from Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Louis Agassiz

3 Marcius had increased their anxiety respecting Philip; for, he acknowledged that the latter had acquiesced with the will of the senate in such a manner, as to render it very evident, that he would conform to it no longer than necessity obliged him; nor was it difficult to see, that he intended to renew hostilities, and that every thing which he then said and did had a tendency that way.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

When he found these conditions, proved and tried, He owned he marvelled, but was satisfied— Relaxed in vigilance enough to smile
— from The Old Soldier's Story: Poems and Prose Sketches by James Whitcomb Riley

It was known to the Romans in very early times.
— from Mrs. Loudon's Entertaining Naturalist Being popular descriptions, tales, and anecdotes of more than Five Hundred Animals. by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

As Art, as the embodied summary of a great ancient tradition, a supreme moment in the spiritual history of the world, the Mass would retain its vitality as surely as Dante's Divine Comedy retains its vitality, even though the stage of that Comedy has no more reality for most modern readers than the stage of Punch and Judy.
— from Impressions and Comments by Havelock Ellis

His tickets are said to have been all removed in very early times after their insertion and that one only is known to have been preserved intact.
— from Antonio Stradivari by Horace Petherick

The black boy went down with his master to the edge of the river, in vain entreating to be permitted to accompany him, and stood on [275] the brink of the water as John plunged his horse into the dark rolling stream.
— from Fern Vale; or, the Queensland Squatter. Volume 3 by Colin Munro

His voice, rising in violence, echoed through the garrets in the roof.
— from Juana by Honoré de Balzac