Let us have that in comfort I beg, for upon my soul we shall need it," panted Mr. Stuart, sinking into a chair exhausted with the vigorous measures which had quenched the conflagration.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

This resolution lasted in great intensity for five dark minutes behind the tub; but then the need of being loved–the strongest need in poor Maggie's nature–began to wrestle with her pride, and soon threw it.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

But the mind of a wise man is always free from every kind of disorder: it never swells, never is puffed up; but the mind when in anger is in a different state.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

If people are not considered guilty of swindling when they place upon their placards For Sale: A Fine Villa, Well Built , even when it is neither good nor properly built, still less guilty are they who say nothing in praise of their house.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Hardly had I advanced a single step before a glimmer of light became perceptible, enough to convince me that, at all events, we should not immediately perish for want of air.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

[20] Armorial bearings of Peebles (official blazon): Gules, three salmon naiant in pale, the centre towards the dexter, the others towards the sinister.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

It is quite curious to notice, as I do directly, what a horror the English residents have of sleeping even one single night in Port Louis; and this dread certainly appears to be well
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

I. His time in Corinth, he assures them, had been spent, not in propagating a philosophy or system of truth peculiar to himself, and which might have been identified with his name, but in presenting the Cross of Christ and making the plainest statements of fact regarding Christ's death.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Epistle to the Corinthians by Marcus Dods

United States Naval Institute (PWH); 9Dec70; R496496.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1970 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

It was as though he had written himself into something near imaginative perception and true friendship: “But, my dear fellow, if you are resolved to continue in this blind and cruel folly, I can only pray and hope that the tragic trial it must be may make a man of you.
— from Young Earnest: The Romance of a Bad Start in Life by Gilbert Cannan

It was when prostitution began to decline two centuries ago, that the geishas first appeared and were organized in such a way that they should not, if possible, compete as prostitutes with the recognized and licensed inhabitants of the Yoshiwara, as the quarter is called to which prostitutes are confined.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

du Kanjour , p. 288) and Rockhill ( Udâna , p. x) is of great weight, but I have not found in their works any quotation from the Tibetan translation saying that the original language was not Sanskrit and the titles given by Peer are in Sanskrit not in Pali.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

I chanced to discover an interesting thing in the fall of 1941 which suggests something new in pecan propagation.
— from Growing Nuts in the North A Personal Story of the Author's Experience of 33 Years with Nut Culture in Minnesota and Wisconsin by Carl Weschcke

But, as time went on, the early artist learned to press into his service new implements, pieces of wood, bone scrapers, and the flint knife itself, with which he incised more regular patterns, straight or zigzag lines, rows of dots, squares and triangles, concentric circles, and even the mystic cross and swastika, the sacred symbols of yet unborn and undreamt-of religions.
— from Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen