Dissolve, thick cloud, and rain, that I may say The gods themselves do weep.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

In every thing else I let her have her own way; and truly She manages a family rarely, that I must say for her.' We were conversing in this manner, when our discourse was interrupted by a loud halloo, which rang through the Forest.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

The remainder, tie in my sack, and then hang it up, so that I can look towards the door.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

I have travelled across Rajpootana that I might seek the shelter of the fort at Agra.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

But the ideal types of poetry are those in which this distinction is reduced to its minimum; so that lyrical poetry, precisely because in it we are least able to detach the matter from the form, without a deduction of something from that matter itself, is, at least artistically, the highest and most complete form of poetry.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

I by no means regretted that I missed seeing the latter, but perhaps I may all my life regret that I missed the former; for probably he has now left town,-and
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

The fact is that the impossibility referred to is merely subjective, that is, our reason finds it impossible for it to render conceivable in the way of a mere course of nature a connection so exactly proportioned and so thoroughly adapted to an end, between two sets of events happening according to such distinct laws; although, as with everything else in nature that is adapted to an end, it cannot prove, that is, show by sufficient objective reason, that it is not possible by universal laws of nature.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Or the converse of this may hold, and a person who devotes his life to the lighter enjoyments may have aspirations and longings for more serious pursuits, and in this respect the imagination may similarly build up a complex which may express itself in a mood.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Moreover, and he smiled more like a cat than ever, the millions of lines round his eyes deepening, he reflected that if Mr. Spokesly went in on this there was practically no risk at all.
— from Command by William McFee

But, at last, God has permitted man’s long, long experience to be followed by wisdom; and we have thrown off the yoke of this ancient enemy, and clasped the hands of Science—Science, that good genius who makes matter the obedient slave of mind; who imprisons the ethereal lightning and makes it the messenger of commerce; who reigns king of the raging sea and winds; who compresses the life of Methusaleh into seventy years; who unlocks the casket of the human frame, and ranges through its most secret chambers, until at last nothing, save the mysterious germ of life itself, shall be hidden; who maps out all the nations of the earth; showing how the sable Ethiopian, the dusky Polynesian, the besotted Mongolian, the intellectual European, are but differently developed exemplars of the same type of manhood, and warning man that he is still his ‘brother’s keeper’ now as in the primeval days of Cain and Abel.
— from Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic by James Douglas

For, every time I spied a glimmering spot Of window pane, "There, in that silent room," Thought I, "mayhap sleeps human heart whose lot Is therefore dear to mine!"
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald

Their position was as follows: the old man sat at the end of a plain table, with his bible open before him—for they had just concluded prayer: his wife, a younger-looking woman, and faded more by affliction than by age, sat beside him, holding on her breast their third daughter—she who had been once the star of their hearth, and who reclined there in mute sorrow, her pale cheek and wasted hands giving those fatal indications of consumption in its last stage, which so severely tries the heart of parent or relative to witness.
— from The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

When a design has been decided on, it is reduced to its most simple element.
— from Toy Craft by Leon H. Baxter

The mere reflection that Ingram must suppose he was but the most casual acquaintance of Helen's was sufficient for that; so that she had not a very difficult task, and expressed herself highly pleased at the agreeable mood in which she was now finding him.
— from Cleo The Magnificent; Or, The Muse of the Real: A Novel by Louis Zangwill

His walk had a sort of tip-toe roll to it, much similar to the conventional stage villain, inspecting a room before robbing a safe.
— from Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball by William H. (William Hanford) Edwards

Do you realize that it means something to me, for I have been the reason of that carelessness.
— from The Claim Jumpers: A Romance by Stewart Edward White

A lively imagination and a ready though inaccurate memory supplied his data; he delivered himself with an inimitable heat that made him seem the picture of pugnacity; lavished contradiction; had a form of words, with or without significance, for every form of criticism; and the looker-on alternately smiled at his simplicity and fervour, or was amazed by his unexpected shrewdness.
— from The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson