They simply go out ; and to keep the mind upon anything related to them requires such incessantly renewed effort that the most resolute Will ere long gives out and lets its thoughts follow the more stimulating solicitations after it has withstood them for what length of time it can.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

“Mr. Syme is right enough there,” answered Colonel Ducroix, laughing, “if only for the reason that he has plenty of property to defend.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

‘There is nothing I can say, sir,’ I returned, ‘except that all the blame is mine.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Mark well the pilaster, its pedestal, its shaft, its rich entablature, the crowning glory of this superb architecture, the different parts, each in its appropriate place, contributing to the strength, beauty and symmetry of the whole!
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Note 71 ( return ) [ {ode anabibazontes, epean k.t.l}: the reference of {ode} is directly to the clause {epean——trakhelou}, though in sense it refers equally to the following, {katothen de k.t.l}.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

“How is it that, five or six days since, I read exactly the same story in the paper, as happening between a Frenchman and an English girl?
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“The fellow merely said in reply, ‘Even though he is, it’s none of your business’; so he took me by the two hands and flung me up into the air, till I went half-way and more to heaven.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

She is reasonable enough to admit that she has been unable to find anything durable, but she does not yet despair of reaching it; she is as ardent as ever in this search, and is confident she has within her the necessary powers for this conquest.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

A short walk along the winding drive with such sward and oaks around it as one only sees in rural England, then a sudden turn, and the long, low Jacobean house of dingy, liver-coloured brick lay before us, with an old-fashioned garden of cut yews on each side of it.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

It is the fashion now-a-days, my son,” said he, “to laugh at the spirit of chivalry; when that spirit is really extinct, the profession of the soldier becomes a mere trade of blood.”
— from Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving

"Do you think Anne Shirley is really engaged to Gilbert Blythe?" I asked curiously.
— from Further Chronicles of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

A long undertoned conversation followed this interchange of civilities, when I heard the lady say in rather elevated tones, "You're trying to rile me some; you're piling it on a trifle too high."
— from The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

One-third of the Senate is renewed every two years.
— from Santo Domingo: A Country with a Future by Otto Schoenrich

au ntt es & deffauntt es made aswell bytwene s ir John Paston Knyght disceasyd and the sayd S ir Rob er te Clere as alsoo bytwene the sayd late cheff Justice and the sayd s ir Robert yt maye appere that the sayd Statute of the Staple of cccc li was made and delyu er ed to none other intente but onlye For the p er fformaunce of certayn couen au nt es of Maryage For the assuraunce and onlye aduaunseme n t of a Joynter to be made to one Elyzabeth late the wyff off
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

It is easy to [461] master an arrow, and to set it right, ere the string be drawn; but when once it is shot, and in the air, and the flight begun, then ye have no more power at all to command it.
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford

A few months after this we received a letter from Mintie Berry, the anxious wife, for whom we succeeded in raising enough to reunite the long separated couple, saying that their happy reunion was the result of favors from their many friends, to whom they returned grateful thanks, while they praised the Lord for the blessing.
— from A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland by Laura S. (Laura Smith) Haviland

Its principal exaction was the tithe, a tax of one-tenth upon the products of agriculture, a burden sufficient, if rigidly enacted, to ruin any field industry.
— from The Historical Child Paidology; The Science of the Child by Oscar Chrisman