“Well blown and clearly,” said the yeoman; “beshrew me an thou knowest not as much of woodcraft as of war!—thou hast been a striker of deer in thy day, I warrant.—Comrades, mark these three mots—it is the call of the Knight of the Fetterlock; and he who hears it, and hastens not to serve him at his need, I will have him scourged out of our band with his own bowstring.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

This view seems to me erroneous, according to the ordinary use of the term: and though it does not necessarily involve the confusion—against which I am chiefly concerned to guard in the present chapter—between the volitional stimulus of desire itself and the volitional stimulus of aversion to desire as painful, it has some tendency to cause this confusion.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Note 85 ( return ) [ See the vth crusade, and the siege of Damietta, in Jacobus à Vitriaco, (l. iii.
— 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

“I know something of diamonds; I have had some.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

We called at some more places with farcical names, where the merry dance of death and trade goes on in a still and earthy atmosphere as of an overheated catacomb; all along the formless coast bordered by dangerous surf, as if Nature herself had tried to ward off intruders; in and out of rivers, streams of death in life, whose banks were rotting into mud, whose waters, thickened into slime, invaded the contorted mangroves, that seemed to writhe at us in the extremity of an impotent despair.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

After having witnessed the splendours of civilised life abroad, the sight of Dublin in the year 1771, when I returned thither, struck me with anything but respect.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

We then walked together towards the fountain, but he told me abruptly that we were to go back, as he saw three ladies to whom he pointed, adding that, for the sake of decency, it was necessary to avoid them.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Among the trivial subjects of discussion in the old schools of dialectics was this question: “If a ball cannot pass through a hole, shall we say that the ball is too large or the hole too small?”
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

(The weeping willow and the flowers to the left of Doña Inés’s sepulchre change into a stage decoration in which one can see, in the middle of glowing lights, the spirit of Doña Inés.) (Don Juan, la sombra de Doña Inés) (Don Juan, the spirit of Doña Inés) SOMBRA:
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

One-third of Philip's effective navy was thus destroyed Patriotism seemed an unimaginable idea Placid unconsciousness on his part of defeat Plea of infallibility and of authority soon becomes ridiculous Religion was rapidly ceasing to be the line of demarcation So often degenerated into tyranny (Calvinism) Spaniards seem wise, and are madmen
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

But the comparative quietude of this Board renders it easier to follow the course of the market, to detect the shades of difference in the running offers, and generally to get a clearer conception of this part of the machinery of stock brokerage.”
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

At last the father said: "We feel highly honoured by your Majesty's proposal, but you see our daughter is a tender young thing, and we fear that in the vehemence of your affection you might possibly do her some injury.
— from Aesop's Fables by Aesop

Her sense of duty is so devout, so perfect, so— TANNER.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

"She has a way of saying things," explained Howard Gray, who had faltered along in a state of dreary indecision for nearly sixty years, in telling his wife about it afterwards,—"as if they were all settled already.
— from The Old Gray Homestead by Frances Parkinson Keyes

In this way it serves as a companion [Pg ix] volume to Devonshire Characters ; and Cornwall in no particular falls short of Devonshire in the variety of characters it has sent forth, nor are their stories of less interest.
— from Cornish Characters and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

From a sheer sense of duty I feel compelled to disappoint her."
— from A Colony of Girls by Kate Livingston Willard

The story that he quoted was Rogers' pretty song of "Dear is my little native vale, The ring-dove builds and warbles there, Close by my cot she tells her tale, To every passing villager."
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 552, June 16, 1832 by Various

I said to him, as politely as I could,— "I suppose, sir, our destination is not known?"
— from Capturing a Locomotive: A History of Secret Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger