As soon as this is settled, they scatter.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In January of the following year the Tannhauser Overture was to be given under his baton, and it therefore seemed advisable that I should reach Paris some time before this event.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

At this place, known to the Creeks as Tohopki or Tohopeka, the Tallapoosa made a bend so as to inclose some eighty or a hundred acres in a narrow peninsula opening to the north.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

'I am,' answered the man, 'the public executioner of this city; and the incident you have observed is a sure augury that I shall, in discharge of my duty, one day cut off your head with the weapon which has just now spontaneously unsheathed itself.'
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Apparently everybody was pleased, and it was the tone of this performance that made Weber's widow so anxious that I should accept the Dresden conductorship; she declared that for the first time since her husband's death she had heard his work correctly interpreted, both in expression and time.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

You see, my dear, I am so wretched, so humiliated, and I suffer so acutely, that I shall have to leave you, even against your will; so it would be kinder of you to give your consent, that I may at least have the sad satisfaction, if I must forsake you, of knowing that I have not disobeyed you.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

That is hard which should be soft, and that is soft which should be hard.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

This thought redoubled my sobs, and then I saw that Mamma, who had never allowed herself to go to any length of tenderness with me, was suddenly overcome by my tears and had to struggle to keep back her own.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

I cannot better compare Glinka’s inspirations than with the permanent efforts of the sea to assume its desired repose in struggling against the incessant succession of waves.
— from From Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge over the Snows of European Russia and Siberia, by Caravan Through Mongolia, Across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall, and by Mule Palanquin Through China to Pekin by Victor Meignan

Only Toulan knows your secret, and Toulan is silent as the grave.
— from Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

This principle represents evidently the ideal of all language, for a language, being essentially a system of symbols, is only theoretically perfect (and useful and convenient in practice) when there exists a unique correspondence between the symbol and the idea symbolised.
— from International Language and Science Considerations on the Introduction of an International Language into Science by Richard Lorenz

61 She only thought, “The boy was starving!” and the indulgent smile deepened as she sat there watching him, chin resting on her linked hands.
— from Special Messenger by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

That shall I, Signior Rinaldo : but would you had come sooner: you see how full the Scaffolds are, there is scant room for a Lovers thought here.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 10 of 10 by John Fletcher

An almost imperceptible perfume, so ancient that it seemed to be the spirit of a perfume, issued from this mysterious drawer and this remarkable relic.
— from Original Short Stories — Volume 06 by Guy de Maupassant

He confines himself mostly to the stamps of the British [68] Empire, the United States, and the Italian States.
— from Stamp Collecting as a Pastime by Edward J. (Edward James) Nankivell

My dear Sir ,—I have read in the Daily Advertiser of June 1st the account of a meeting of the Boston Prison Discipline Society, in which you proposed a resolution, the effect of which was to declare that this Society ought not to be considered "the pledged advocate" of the Auburn System, or of any other system, and that it should judge all systems without taking sides in advance, and without prejudice.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 02 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

There is the central idea of the conflict between the higher and lower, both on the social and the individual side; the victory of the Round Table would have meant not only pure knights but a regenerate state.
— from Heart of Man by George Edward Woodberry