And where will our presence be desired, so long as we are a homeless nation?
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

"Wherefore," he said, "it necessarily follows from all this that some such opinion as this should be entertained by genuine philosophers, so that they should speak among themselves as follows: 'A by-path, as it were, seems to lead us on in our researches undertaken by reason,' because so long as we are encumbered with the body, and our soul is contaminated with such an evil, we can never fully attain to what we desire; and this, we say, is truth.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

She lived alone with a housekeeper and maid.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

“God grant that all should live as well as Vasichka and I.” When Pustovalov went to the government of Mogilev to buy wood, she was dreadfully homesick for him, did not sleep nights, and cried.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Just as the day broke, my friends the wolves set up a parting benediction, so loud, and wild, and near to the house, that I was afraid lest they should break through the frail window, or come down the low wide chimney, and rob me of my child.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

We never receive proofs of genuine loving-kindness on the part of others, so long as we are in all respects prosperous.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Nevertheless, we shall bear with an equal mind all that happens to us in contravention to the claims of our own advantage, so long as we are conscious, that we have done our duty, and that the power which we possess is not sufficient to enable us to protect ourselves completely; remembering that we are a part of universal nature, and that we follow her order.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

The sixth was the prebendary's son lately deceased, his father died in debt (for it, as they say), left a wife and many poor children.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The affair was already so far advanced that the conspirators had sent on board the necessary provisions of cassave-bread, oil, dried fish, water, and such like, and were about to set sail, when one of them, Bernardino de Coria, began to repent, called upon Cortes at midnight, and discovered the whole plot to him.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Then, her tale concluded, she laughed, and, with a questioning look at Papa, went on: “What a boy, cousin!
— from Childhood by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Coleridge was then dead; but Wordsworth and Dorothy Wordsworth were still living; as was also Southey.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

In the end she looked away with a sigh.
— from Dr. Rumsey's Patient: A Very Strange Story by L. T. Meade

Even so late as Wednesday, after he had called upon Count Molé to form a new ministry, he remarked that he
— from Peter Parley's Own Story From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley") by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

He snarled like a wild animal.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

"Dying of cold indeed," said Lope, "and we are in the middle of the dog days."
— from The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

She listened attentively with a flutter at her heart.
— from Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

"Your man has been showing me over it, as you may say, leastways as well as he could in this fog."
— from Round the World in Seven Days by Herbert Strang