Very slight matters were enough to gall him in his sensitive mood, and the sight of Dorothea driving past him while he felt himself plodding along as a poor devil seeking a position in a world which in his present temper offered him little that he coveted, made his conduct seem a mere matter of necessity, and took away the sustainment of resolve.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Now, notwithstanding the pressure which fashion has brought to bear upon them to return to the long trailing skirts for street wear, they have courageously resisted it, and sensibly insisted upon the comfortable, cleanly, short walking skirt for the street; and yet men keep on growling all the same about minor matters of no consequence; so that women may well exclaim, "There's no suiting them; so we will just please ourselves."
— from Caper-Sauce: A Volume of Chit-Chat about Men, Women, and Things. by Fanny Fern

“And not unfrequently by the same agents of fertilisation.” “Such a man must of necessity come to think more of the great issues of certain incidents than of the incidents themselves.”
— from According to Plato by Frank Frankfort Moore

To have achieved his successes, a man must of necessity have rallied around him many besides enthusiasts of the cause; he must have recruited amongst men of broken fortunes—reckless, lawless fellows, who accepted the buccaneer’s life as a means of wiping off old scores with that old world “that would have none of them.”
— from Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever

If Worth gets the fifty thousand he is safe to make a million or two that would otherwise go to the Company and we wouldn't feel justified in spending any more money on new structures."
— from The Winning of Barbara Worth by Harold Bell Wright

"Thou art in the right, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "go where thou wilt, and eat what thou canst; my appetite is already satisfied, and my mind only needs refreshment, which the tale of this good man will doubtless afford."
— from The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

In any case such a monster must of necessity be in our scheme of things an anomaly and an intruder, whose extirpation forms a primary duty with every man not an enemy to the world's life, health, and sanity.
— from The Shunned House by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

"So let him show the Northmen of what sort are my men of Northumberland.
— from Ned, the son of Webb: What he did. by William O. Stoddard

Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters: A Novel KATE DANTON; OR CAPTAIN DANTON'S DAUGHTERS A Novel BY MAY AGNES FLEMING, AUTHOR OF "NORINE'S REVENGE," "GUY EARLSCOURT'S WIFE," "A WONDERFUL WOMAN," "A TERRIBLE SECRET," "A MAD MARRIAGE," "ONE NIGHT'S MYSTERY," ETC.
— from Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming