mself had not secretly regarded him as Mr. Featherstone's heir; that old gentleman's pride in him, and apparent fondness for him, serving in the stead of more exemplary conduct—just as when a youthful nobleman steals jewellery we call the act kleptomania, speak of it with a philosophical smile, and never think of his being sent to the house of correction as if he were a ragged boy who had stolen turnips.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

I arranged one of these as a washhand-stand, and on the table I placed some books, writing materials, and the score of Lohengrin, and almost heaved a sigh of content in spite of my extremely cramped accommodation.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

But my curiosity was too much excited by our late proceedings not to endeavour to ascertain how some of my elder companions felt regarding such subjects.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

Do you believe it was because I committed the sacrilege of mounting en croupe behind Henry IV.?”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Goodly legs and shoulders of mutton, exhilarating cordials, books, pictures, the opportunities of seeing foreign countries, independence, heart's ease, a man's own time to himself, are not muck —however we may be pleased to scandalise with that appellation the faithful metal that provides them for us.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

When I found that this mustang was clerking in a fruit establishment (he had the establishment along with him in a basket,) at two cents a day, and that he had no palace at home where he lived, I lost some of my enthusiasm concerning the happiness of living in Italy.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

From Belgium we went direct to Paris, where we found that Mr. Theodore Stanton, the son of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, had kindly provided accommodations for us.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

‘I feel a great delicacy, gentlemen, in coming for’ard,’ said the man in the long coat, ‘having the misforchune to be a coachman, and being only admitted as a honorary member of these agreeable swarrys, but I do feel myself bound, gentlemen—drove into a corner, if I may use the expression—to make known an afflicting circumstance which has come to my knowledge; which has happened I may say within the soap of my everyday contemplation.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Fish chaseth fish, and all, Flyer and follower, in this whirlepoole fall; O might not states of more equality Consist?
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Incongruities pointed out by the writer such as the wearing of khaddar on public occasions and at other times of the most fashionable English suits, and the smoking of most expensive cigars by wearers of khaddar, must disappear in [pg 091] course of time, as the new fashion gains strength.
— from The Wheel of Fortune by Mahatma Gandhi

On page 37 of his French exposé of the secrets of magic, entitled “Comment on Devient Sorcier” (page 51 of the English translation by Professor Hoffmann, “The Secrets of Conjuring and Magic"), he thus naïvely describes his masterpiece of coin-palming: “I myself practised palming long and perseveringly, and acquired thereat a very considerable degree of skill.
— from The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin by Harry Houdini

This fact is not always recognized by hypnotists, and it is safe to say that ignorance of this one truth has been the source of more erroneous conclusions regarding the significance of hypnotic phenomena than all other causes combined.
— from The Law of Psychic Phenomena A working hypothesis for the systematic study of hypnotism, spiritism, mental therapeutics, etc. by Thomson Jay Hudson

Noster Sixtus,[124] "cui ad aram solemnibus sacris operanti ministrarunt e clero septemviri."
— from Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities by Campion, Edmund, Saint

In the author's own words, the articles dealt with 'facts and tendencies'; and though he would have been the last to hold himself a prophet, saying that in the nature of things 'two years meant for ever in politics,' much that he wrote is still of interest, and the suggestion of Mr. Erskine Childers' hero that we should 'Read Dilke' is not yet out of date.
— from The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn

TABLE IX Salaries of Methodist Episcopal Country Ministers, 1917 No. of ministers Average salary (including estimated rental value of parsonage) No. of charges giving salaries less than $1,500 Per cent No. of charges giving salaries less than $1,200 Per cent No. of charges giving salaries less than $1,000 Per cent State 688 $993 662 96 513 75 303 44 Ohio Conference 151 $972 145 96 110 73 79 52 West Ohio Conference 237 $1,004 230 97 184 78 87 37 Northeast Ohio Conference 300 $995 287 96 219 73 137 46 TABLE X Salaries of Country Ministers, United Brethren in Christ, 1917 No. of ministers Average salary (including estimated rental value of parsonage)
— from Six Thousand Country Churches by Charles Otis Gill

And then a state of mad ecstasy came over Paul with that vision; he could not stay in the house; he must go out under God's sky, and let his soul-thoughts fly into space.
— from Three Weeks by Elinor Glyn

Then we paid the doctors, I don’t know, $5,000 or $6,000, you know, the psychiatrists that came down, and some of my expenses came out, just my flight expenses and telephone calls, and who else now?
— from Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

The writer is a Protestant, whose sense of moral energy could doubtless be gratified on no lower terms, and I take his case from Starbuck's manuscript collection.
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

Not that the soldier on manœuvres ever counts cost; the majority of the troops do not even think of such a thing.
— from The French Army from Within by Anonymous