And the morbid influence of his melancholy on his love is the cause of those strange facts, that he never alludes to her in his soliloquies, and that he appears not to realise how the death of her father must affect her.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

He is the shosei (student), to whom the earth is too small and the Heavens are not high enough.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

As such necessary formal laws, Space and Time "have a necessity of being independently of all phenomena."
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

The savage and the hermit are not, in actual fact, types of human happiness and freedom.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Behold, (God) putteth no trust in his ministering spirits, And the heavens are not pure in his sight; Much less abominable and polluted man, Who drinketh iniquity as water!
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

In the same way Gomara tells his tales about our imprisoning Motecusuma, without for a moment reflecting that several of the Conquistadores were still alive; who, when they had perused his work, would be able to say so and so such a thing happened, and not otherwise.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Square and triangular houses are not allowed, and for this reason.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Chapter 12 Levin strode along the highroad, absorbed not so much in his thoughts (he could not yet disentangle them) as in his spiritual condition, unlike anything he had experienced before.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

He suffered all the hardships and necessities, the poverty and the lack of sustenance, which have been recounted.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898: Volume 31, 1640 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Diego Aduarte

One of the guards stirred, while a man who had been crouching over one of the distant fires, no doubt thinking of the fighting in prospect, rose and sauntered along till he arrived near the hut, where he opened up a conversation on the same old subject.
— from With Wolseley to Kumasi: A Tale of the First Ashanti War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

Three of these figures have that sort of helmet which defends the face by a guard descending over the nose, and the back by the length of the λόφος, or crest, or horsehair, crista ; the shields are massy and large, they are the Argive ἀσπὶς ἔγκυκλος, circular shields, and the handles are nicely framed.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

It was one of those lingering mellow mornings of late September, when the air, just warmed through, lifts off the stubbles, and the hedgerows are not yet dried of dew.
— from Beyond by John Galsworthy

And we staid at this house all night, and boarded the ship this morning as you saw.”
— from Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

They have brains which stand them in good stead, although their heads are not so good as ours.
— from The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by James Harvey Robinson

‘Sometimes at night,’ said the boy, ‘when you are reading, with the rod of quicken wood in your hand, I look out of the door and see, now a great grey man driving swine among the hazels, and now many little people in red caps who come out of the lake driving little white cows before them.
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 7 (of 8) The Secret Rose. Rosa Alchemica. The Tables of the Law. The Adoration of the Magi. John Sherman and Dhoya by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

I wanted to get back and bring the job as a whole to a finish so as to have a new one to tackle.
— from One Way Out: A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America by William Carleton