You really make me very unhappy,—I take these things to heart so very much.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

And, therefore, doubtless to approve the truth Of the last axiom, he advised his spouse To leave the parties to themselves, forsooth— At least as far as bienseance allows: That time would temper Juan's faults of youth; That young men rarely made monastic vows; That opposition only more attaches—
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

So likewise, who knows but, in this same distracted fanatic France, the right man may verily exist?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I began to regard my mysterious visitor with admiration, for besides enjoying his intelligence, I began to perceive that he was brooding over some plan in his heart, and was preparing himself perhaps for a great deed.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Do YOU remember me, madam? VIOLET.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

] 8 ] 8. Shéhérazade , 3 rd movement M — Vn s I + Fl.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

“I think not, sir,” remarked Mrs. Miller very gently.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, “Is any affliction like mine?” Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Engagement of the renowned MARCUS MARCELLUS VALERIAN!
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

ROBERT M. MALLORY, Va. HENRY W. WINGFIELD, Va. BENJAMIN W. OGBURN, Va. SAM'L B. PAUL (Honorary)
— from History of Randolph-Macon College, Virginia The Oldest Incorporated Methodist College in America by Richard Irby

And here comes our debt to these great painters: what a number of effects, modest and exquisite, or bizarre and magnificent, they will have taught us to look out for; what beauty and poetry in humdrum scenery, what perfect loveliness even among sordidness and squalor: tints as of dove's breasts in city mud, enamel splendours in heaps of furnace refuse, mysterious magnificence, visions of Venice at night, of Eblis palace, of I know not what, in wet gaslit nights, in looming lit-up factories.
— from Limbo, and Other Essays; To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua by Vernon Lee

All resistance measurements must be taken with great care, as small errors in the measurement of the resistance may make very large errors in the determination of the temperature rise.
— from Hawkins Electrical Guide v. 08 (of 10) Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity and its applications by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

Ambrym, the next island, was more than usually lovely, and was destined to receive many more visits.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Thom Pictou N S George McKay Mount Uniacke Hants N S Richard McLean Mount Vernon Brantford, West Brant, S. R.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1872 by Canada. Post Office Department

"I am not a rich man, Miss Vail, as I said," he smiled gravely, "but I can give this, and I give it with great joy in my heart."
— from The Miracle Man by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

If the horse, however, is old and very quiet—so that one can throw the reins on his neck and allow him to jog on for himself, then horseback riding may mean very little.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Roman mile, modified— Venice, 1000 paces of 5 feet 1901 1·08 Sicily, 720 rods of 8 palmi 1625 0·924 Spain, 1000 paces of 5 feet 1520 0·863 Portugal, 8 stadia of 234-2/3 varas 2281 1·296 England, 8 furlongs of 220 yards 1760 1·0 France, 1000 toises 2131 1·21 4.
— from Men and Measures by Edward Nicholson

Each race, each class, each section of the population, each unit even, vaunts its own habits of life as superior to the rest, as the only true and legitimate forms; and peoples and classes will go to war with each other in assertion of their own special beliefs and practices; but the question that rather presses upon the ingenuous and inquiring mind is, whether any of us have got hold of much true life at all?—whether we are not rather mere multitudinous varieties of caddis-worms shuffled up in the cast-off skins and clothes and débris of those who have gone before us, and with very little vitality of our own perceptible within?
— from Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure; and Other Essays by Edward Carpenter