that is something essential to any enjoyment of the present moment; and unless its separate moments are enjoyed, there is an end of life's happiness as a whole.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Unjust!—unjust!” said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power: and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated some strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression—as running away, or, if that could not be effected, never eating or drinking more, and letting myself die.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

She didn’t thank him; still, he felt gratified that she had accepted his assistance, and ventured to stand behind as she examined them, and even to stoop and point out what struck his fancy in certain old pictures which they contained; nor was he daunted by the saucy style in which she jerked the page from his finger: he contented himself with going a bit farther back and looking at her instead of the book.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

On such encouragement to ask, Elizabeth was forced to put it out of her power, by running away.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Here is an odd (but entirely proper) use of a word, and a most sudden descent from a lofty philosophical altitude to a very practical and homely illustration: We should endeavor to avoid extremes—like those of wasps and bees.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

mugáway a 1 large and spacious enough to afford ease of movement.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“I would not have given it up so easily to anybody else.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

She had for him such enthusiasm that, although even now I do not understand the technicalities of English life, I can gather enough.
— from The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

If, then, there be a man in the United States of firmness and decision, and having standing enough to afford even a hope of success, it is your duty to hold him up to public view: that man is Andrew Jackson .
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

They are erected—often in a row of thirty and more—on the roadside, in fields and meadows, near chapels and crucifixes, in the village streets—in short, everywhere; they are even nailed to houses and barns.
— from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 131, February, 1909 by Various

Non aspettar mio dir piu` ne' mio cenno; libero, dritto e sano e` tuo arbitrio, e fallo fora non fare a suo senno: per ch'io te
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

She expected their attitude, evidently, for her own low musical laugh followed.
— from The Girl Scouts at Bellaire; Or, Maid Mary's Awakening by Lilian Garis

But the gout is not an adversary that allows itself to be conquered so easily; therefore, at each movement he made, the pain from dull became sharp.
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas

These few words produced a stronger effect than any entreaties I could have used, for the mere name of the Emperor made even the boldest tremble, and Major Amiel next thought of selling his booty.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

She was so unaffected, so graceful, as she advanced toward the altar, she knelt down with such simple elegance, that all eyes were delighted with the picture she presented.
— from Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, Vol. 1 of 2 by Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat

Strange enough, that a European should discover Lake Ontario by entering the head waters of the Trent River, and sailing through the Bay of Quinté.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff