" Achilles answered, "Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, I should give you formal notice plainly and in all fixity of purpose that there be no more of this cajoling, from whatsoever quarter it may come.
— from The Iliad by Homer

There was a very good suit of livery in the house, which had belonged to my predecessor deceased, and it fitted me exactly; so that there was no occasion for employing a tailor on my account.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Such a tension it seems there certainly is, whilst we are involved in darkness; for in such a state, whilst the eye remains open, there is a continual nisus to receive light; this is manifest from the flashes and luminous appearances which often seem in these circumstances to play before it; and which can be nothing but the effect of spasms, produced by its own efforts in pursuit of its object: several other strong impulses will produce the idea of light in the eye, besides the substance of light itself, as we experience on many occasions.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Somewhere along about the time the military folk in the Philippines were scoffing at the unnecessary sacrifice of life incident to the lack of a strong government, President Roosevelt had written his warm personal friend, Hon.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

“Now I must explain the cause of my hurried departure; it will seem of little importance to you, because it concerns me alone.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

Provoking daemons all restraint remove, And stir within me ev'ry source of love, I hear thee, view thee, gaze o'er all thy charms, And round thy phantoms glue my clasping arms.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

Would it be possible to place Sir Percival between the two alternatives of either exposing himself to the scandal of legal interference on his wife's behalf, or of allowing her to be quietly separated from him for a time under pretext of a visit to her uncle's house?
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

PRINCIPLE is likewise such a law for action, except that it has not the formal definite meaning, but is only the spirit and sense of law in order to leave the judgment more freedom of application when the diversity of the real world cannot be laid hold of under the definite form of a law.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Her listener was pleased and nodded many times, as she commented: “Well, well, that’s somethin’ now that my Jenny gal has brought to pass, but it wasn’t about that you were having such a spell of laughin’, I reckon.”
— from Sisters by Grace May North

"If he is so near, let us mount to-night, this very hour, rather than have on us the shame of lying idly here while men who wear the cross are in need of us."
— from Via Crucis: A Romance of the Second Crusade by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Above all, it certifies the forgiveness of sin and releases us from its liabilities; it transforms the law of sin and death into the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Ephesians by George G. (George Gillanders) Findlay

Jealousy is the shadow thrown where the sunshine of love is intercepted, and it is strong in proportion to the strength of the light.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by G. A. (George Alexander) Chadwick

Thus the fact is clear that the son of a Brāhman even by a Sūdra woman had a certain status of legitimacy in his father’s caste, as he could marry in it, and must therefore have been permitted to partake of the sacrificial food at marriage; 43 and he could also inherit a small share of the property.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

Conscious power thus acquired satisfies the pride of some; others limit its exercise from prudence.
— from English Secularism: A Confession Of Belief by George Jacob Holyoake

Lower Van Ness Avenue was even more torn and lumpy than where she had crossed it at California Street, and hundreds of the South of Market Street refugees were sitting or lying in the middle of the street, worn out but stolid.
— from Ancestors: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

"A spot of leprosy indeed," muttered Saul to himself, "it hath by stealth crept into the very life-blood of the nation; and how hardly shall the deadly leprosy be cleansed."
— from Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross by Florence Morse Kingsley

There are many more such studies of light in home landscape, and not least in Lothair .
— from Disraeli: A Study in Personality and Ideas by Walter Sichel