Second and Third of Prairial, during which Sansculottism still sprawled, and unexpectedly rang its tocsin, and assembled in arms, availed Sansculottism nothing.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I am practically industrious—pains-taking;—a workman to execute with perseverance and labour:—but besides this, there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In securing solicitously an unobserved retreat in case of failure, Raymond had forgotten to arrange the mode by which she was to hear of his success; and she had been too much agitated to revert to this circumstance.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I am practically industrious—painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour—but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In order to render them what are called merchantable herrings, it is necessary to repack them with an additional quantity of salt; and in this case, it is reckoned, that three barrels of sea-sticks are usually repacked into two barrels of merchantable herrings.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

She dared her sister to bring such artificial, unhealthy rubbish into the place again.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The reader will please to bear in mind, that, in a slave state, an unsuccessful runaway is not only subjected to cruel torture, and sold away to the far south, but he is frequently execrated by the other slaves.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Although Virginia must be content with a secondary and unpretending rank in the general department of history, yet in the abundance and the interest of her historical materials, she may, without presumption, claim pre-eminence among the Anglo-American colonies.
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

Thoughts, stinging and ungovernable, rolled in waves through her perturbed mind.
— from Nostalgia by Grazia Deledda

end english-page end new-parallel-page [Pg 80] De Dionysio fugit me ad te antea scribere; sed ita constitui, exspectare responsa Caesaris, ut, si ad urbem rediremus, ibi nos exspectaret, sin tardius id fieret, tum eum arcesseremus.
— from Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 2 of 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero

And hence it is that all compassion is reserved for the Irish people, because they are said to be poor, without duly inquiring whether or not their own misconduct is the principal cause of the misfortunes they suffer; and universal reprehension is heaped upon the Irish landlords, because, the people being impoverished, they are supposed to have neglected their duties;—and no inquiry is made as to whether they are enabled, if inclined, to perform their parts; or whether all their schemes to improve the condition of the people entrusted to their care, are not thwarted and counteracted by designing and unprincipled men, acting, from self-interested motives, on the passions and the prejudices of an excitable and ignorant population.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various

I have to tell you, first, that the medical student turned out to be strangely and unaccountably right in assuming it as more than probable that Arthur Holliday would marry the young lady who had given him the water-color drawing of the landscape.
— from The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins

Such was the variety of tortures which he expressed, showing an unexampled richness in imaginative powers, that people came to see it from the remotest parts of Italy.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 2: Renaissance and Reformation by John Lord

"I have been thinking this matter over," he said, "very seriously, and, upon reflection, I agree with you that it is undesirable that Aggie should see much of Richard, until she is of an age to form a fair opinion for herself, and to compare him with other young men.
— from With Wolfe in Canada: The Winning of a Continent by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Did the church condescend to notice such an unbelieving republican, it would be to command all its faithful to unite in their prayers for his destruction."
— from The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper