The peer, after a short conversation, could not forbear expressing some surprize at meeting the lady in that place; nor could he refrain from telling her he imagined she had been gone to Bath.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

De Guignes (tome i. p. 325) is offended with this explanation, and says: “Cette conjecture ne peut avoir lieu, les Euthélites n’ayant jamais demeuré dans le Thibet.”
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

New York must be filled with such bowers, or the beautiful, insolent, supercilious creatures could not be.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

In her present uplifted state, Christie could no more help regarding David as a martyr and admiring him for it, than she could help mixing sentiment with her sympathy.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Yet something seemed to denote that she was not quite so comfortably circumstanced, nor so bouncingly attired, as she had been during Cartlett's lifetime.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

157 Atque ut apium examina non fingendorum favorum causa congregantur, sed, cum congregabilia natura sint, fingunt favos, sic homines, ac multo etiam magis, natura congregati adhibent agendi cogitandique
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

In nove gradi angelica natura, In ello empirio ciel pien di splendore, Colui che non si muove ed è motore, Ciascuna cosa fece buona e pura.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

When she could consume no more of the strawberries he filled her little basket with them; and then the two passed round to the rose-trees, whence he gathered blossoms and gave her to put in her bosom.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

She could cry now with a right good will—but she would not—she must not.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

This second Crane could not carry on the work, and besought the king to relieve him by taking over the factory, which was thenceforth known as King’s Works.
— from The Tapestry Book by Helen Churchill Candee

The tired sad girl in the steamer chair could not fail to respond in some measure, in every sensitive nerve, to so ardent a wooing.
— from In Red and Gold by Samuel Merwin

As the double compromise could not be effected, the single compromise could not stand.
— from Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

That this is the case is also shown by the following words of Nussbaum—‘the cell-material of the individual (somatic cells) can never produce a single sexual cell.’
— from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems Authorised Translation by August Weismann

But distance was one of the principal causes, and perhaps we should not be far wrong in saying that it was the principal cause, why the time came when some colonies could no longer be governed from England—distance, and all those divergencies of thought and principle referred to by Mill, which [Pg 334] distance permitted or caused to spring into existence and to thrive.
— from Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 9: The Expansion of England by John Morley

At the fountain head she could collect no information, for Martha was the only person she now saw there and the old lady seemed anxious, after receiving her parcels, to rush back to the clearing up of the colossal mess of the receded flood: a work in which the scrupulously invisible Will was understood to be lending a hand almost as vigorous as his father’s, albeit a single hand.
— from Jinny the Carrier by Israel Zangwill

He had not the same commanding countenance, neither did his eyes flash forth the same light.
— from Mistress Nancy Molesworth: A Tale of Adventure by Joseph Hocking