Sometimes, I walk; sometimes, I proceed in cabs, draining the pocket of the schoolmaster who then follows in cabs.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Operari sequitur esse (what one does follows from what one is) forms, as we have seen in Part II., Chapter VIII., a pregnant tenet of the Schoolmen.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

She is poor in clothes, and not bred to any carriage, but will be soon taught all, and if Mercer do not come again, I think we may have her upon better terms, and breed her to what we please.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

We turn them over to the dream-censorship, are ashamed and angry if one of these dreams has in some unusual manner succeeded in penetrating into consciousness in an undistorted form, so that we must recognize it—in fact, we are at times just as ashamed of the distorted dream as we would be if we understood it.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

My next difficulty was to make a sieve or searce, to dress my meal, and to part it from the bran and the husk; without which I did not see it possible I could have any bread.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

In relation to other continents Europe is not self-sufficient; in particular it cannot feed Itself.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

If I stay in Paris I cannot go to Rome; if I became pope I could not continue to be prime minister; and it is only by continuing prime minister that I can make Monsieur d’Artagnan a captain and Monsieur du Vallon a baron.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

“What have you stolen?” inquired Pyotr Ilyitch curiously.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Its salvation work on behalf of the dead saved its place in Confucian China; for of Confucianism itself, piety and devotion towards parents and ancestors, and the promotion of their happiness, were the core, and, consequently, their worship with sacrifices and ceremonies was always a sacred duty.”
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Of the caliph Mohtadi, he says, services ipsi perpetuis ictibus contundebant, testiculosque pedibus conculcabant, (p. 208.)
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

As I have explained in an earlier chapter, many of the large estancias are not occupied by their owners; a manager with a salary is put in charge, and he usually has several young Englishmen as assistants.
— from The Amazing Argentine: A New Land of Enterprise by John Foster Fraser

She lies peacefully hoping for it, and she has suffered, and still does, such intense pain, I cannot feel as I otherwise would about her leaving us.
— from Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and Diary by Daniel Dulany Addison

But as we turned from Clarges Street into Piccadilly I could have sworn that a man we passed in the darkness was old Van Nierop.
— from Spies of the Kaiser: Plotting the Downfall of England by William Le Queux

The same insufflation pushes it, carries it, raises it, upsets it, fills it with trouble and light and with an ineffable sound, saturates it with electricity and causes it to give suddenly discharges of thunder.
— from William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo

While recently staying in Paris I chanced to hear of you …"
— from Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self by Marie Corelli

And Swift [in his Lines on the death of Dr. Swift ], himself a great condenser, says— 'In Pope I cannot read a line
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) by James Boswell

Even the touching of sleeves in passing is caused by some relation in a former life.
— from In Ghostly Japan by Lafcadio Hearn

There are several interesting points in connection with Athenian school life about which our information is so scanty that we are left in some doubt respecting them.
— from Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson

The particular form of transmitter described in von Legat’s Report (see also p. 25, ante ) has also some important points in common with that believed to have been used by Reis at the Hochstift.
— from Philipp Reis: Inventor of the Telephone A Biographical Sketch by Silvanus P. (Silvanus Phillips) Thompson

The strong is pleasing in contrast with the weak, the greater (more extended, richer) in contrast with the smaller, the collected in contrast with the scattered; in other words, in the individual desires it is energy which pleases, in their sum variety, in the system co-operation.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg