From their counsel, or their conversation, she knew she could receive no assistance, their tenderness and sorrow must add to her distress, while her self-command would neither receive encouragement from their example nor from their praise.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Lisbeth, in the pauses of attending to her dinner, always sat opposite to him and watched him, till she could rest no longer without going up to him and giving him a caress, to call his attention to her.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot
Martial has a pretty Epigram on this Subject: Crine ruber, niger ore, brevis pede, lumine lœsus: Rem magnam prœstas, Zoile, si bonus es.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
At last she could run no longer; she sat down on a large stone, and when she looked about her, she saw that the summer had passed; it was late in the autumn, but that one could not remark in the beautiful garden, where there was always sunshine, and where there were flowers the whole year round.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
9 Minime vero assentior iis, qui negant eum locum a Panaetio praetermissum, sed consulto relictum, nec omnino scribendum fuisse, quia numquam posset utilitas cum honestate pugnare.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
But I knew that the sun's rays, even in the clearest seas, could reach no deeper.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
We may then suppose the case of a righteous man [ e.g. Spinoza ], 135 who holds himself firmly persuaded that there is no God, and also (because in respect of the Object of morality a similar consequence results) no future life; how is he to judge of his own inner purposive destination, by means of the moral law, which he reveres in practice?
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
It has therefore neither symbols, ceremonies, rites, nor ritual; it imposes no obligations and creates no loyalties.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess
[562] Perlin says of the English in the middle of the sixteenth century, referring no doubt to the nobility: "Ceux du pays ne courent gaire ou bien peu
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley
O. N, skjól , shelter, cover, refuge, Norse skjul , skjol , pron. shul , shol , Dan.
— from Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch A contribution to the study of the linguistic relations of English and Scandinavian by George T. (George Tobias) Flom
NOZZLE DELAVAN SIZE CHOKE RING NO. & DIAMETER "A" DIM. I. D. VANES 87CPO 1.25 GPH 70° A 142640-002 2-5/8 D FLUSH 2-25/32 108CPO 1.65 GPH 60° A 142641 2-31/32 D -3/16" 2-25/32 128CPO 2.00 GPH 70° A 142641-003 2-31/32 D +1/4" 2-29/32 [Pg 8]
— from Installation and Operation Instructions For Custom Mark III CP Series Oil Fired Unit by Anonymous
One of the actors in the scene, Caius Rabirius, now a very old man, was still alive.
— from Caesar: A Sketch by James Anthony Froude
[1] So certainly read, not Euodias , which would be a man's name, a contraction of Euodianus.
— from Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule
You may be satisfied if the possibility is vouchsafed you to suggest certain relations, not representable in themselves, in a more detailed elaboration of the image.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
Great as are our human differences and capabilities there is not the slightest scientific reason for assuming that a given human being of any race or sex cannot reach normal, human development if he is granted a reasonable chance.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
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