It possesses, you say, all reality, and you feel yourselves justified in admitting the possibility of such a being.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Such a reply, as you can understand, is not likely to increase his chance of success, but that is his fault and not mine.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

" "You can't sit with us, for our seats are reserved, and you mustn't sit alone, so Laurie will give you his place, and that will spoil our pleasure.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

[Pg 389] ter to dwell in cottages, like shepherds and rustics, amid your sacred places and your household gods, than to go publicly into exile?
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Close to Wind Sailing with the boat pointing as nearly as possible against the wind is called sailing close to the wind; when you have turned your bow to the right or left so that the wind strikes both boat and sail at right angles you are sailing with the wind abeam; as you let out your sheet so that the boom makes a larger angle with an imaginary line running from the mast to the middle of the stern you are sailing off the wind; and, when your sail stands at right angles to this same line, you are sailing free or before the wind.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

No girl seems more simply dressed, but no one could take more pains over her toilet; no article is selected at random, and yet there is no trace of artificiality.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You will always be my solace and resource, as you have always been. Until I die, my dearest sister, I shall see you always before me, pointing upward!’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

“I’ll go right over to Spencervale after it tomorrow,” said Anne resolutely, “and you must come with me.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

You understand this silence? Priest of a God of peace, with your mouth full of sanctity and religion and your heart full of evil, you cannot know what a father is, or you might have thought of your own!
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

"You can't sit with us, for our seats are reserved, and you mustn't sit alone; so Laurie will give you his place, and that will spoil our 93 pleasure; or he'll get another seat for you, and that isn't proper, when you weren't asked.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

A kingdom is offered to you, to which the whole world can scarcely show a rival; and you throw it from you with contempt, for the sake of a dream—a whim!”
— from Akbar: An Eastern Romance by P. A. S. van (Petrus Abraham Samuel) Limburg Brouwer

No. 1 is very beautiful; fascinating in manners; somewhat shy and reserved; and yet amiable.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 1/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

Finally he’d go out shouting a rave, and you’d think the show was a sure sell for to-morrow morning—and that was the last you ever heard about it.
— from You're on the Air by William Heyliger

"Hark you, my pert coxcomb, if I did not think it beneath me to touch such a reptile as you, I would give you what would shut your mouth up; you may live to repent this, Mr. Lennox.
— from The Weird of the Wentworths: A Tale of George IV's Time, Vol. 2 by Johannes Scotus

Malcolm, who promptly followed her, was just in time to see her shaking the cobbler by his coat-collar, much after the fashion of a terrier shaking a rat. "Are you a born natural?" she screamed.
— from Herb of Grace by Rosa Nouchette Carey

To-morrow morning, spread a report among your friends and acquaintances, that your vessel is on the point of starting to return to Trajectum.
— from Quintus Claudius: A Romance of Imperial Rome. Volume 1 by Ernst Eckstein

{61} A woman with such attractions, really a young woman, alone; nobody could have more need of guarding against evil tongues.
— from The Sorceress, v. 3 of 3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant