But Universal Happiness, desirable consciousness or feeling for the innumerable multitude of sentient beings, present and to come, seems an End that satisfies our imagination by its vastness, and sustains our resolution by its comparative security.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

An excellent decree, and another testimony to the sagacity of Rome; but I could wish their prudence had been more thoroughgoing and consistent.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Blanca gave Evelyn a friendly smile of recognition, but it cost her an effort to respond.
— from The Coast of Adventure by Harold Bindloss

"You see," he went on, "I know that I've disappointed Mrs. Maybough, and I'd like to make her some sort of reparation, but I can't offer her the sketch instead of the portrait; if she liked it she would want to pay for it, and I can't take money for it.
— from The Coast of Bohemia by William Dean Howells

For a few seconds he lay like one emerging from the influence of morphia, who feels his racked body still painlessly afloat on a sea of rest, but is conscious that it is drifting back to the bitter shores of pain, and who stirs neither hand nor foot for fear of hastening the touch of the encircling, aching sands on which he is so soon to be cast in agony once more.
— from Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley

So much delay had not been anticipated, and this loss of time was taken advantage of by the enemy to recall the troops diverted to Bunker Hill and Martinsburg on the 17th, thus enabling him to bring them all to the support of Ramseur before I could strike with effect.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

Such self-respect is the rarest thing in Italy south of Rome, but in Calabria I found it more than once.
— from By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy by George Gissing

The picture round which so much devotion centres is a very sweet one, rather Byzantine in character, as is natural, for it came to Italy from the other side of the Adriatic—miraculously transported, probably at the time when all that country came under Moslem rule.
— from Italian Yesterdays, vol. 2 by Fraser, Hugh, Mrs.

That would be the way to obviate this sort of risk, but if complete protection against this kind of risk is desired, the insurance ought to be not only against fire but against destruction, or really against deterioration in any form.
— from Commercial Law by Richard William Hill