Of so slight a nature, and so shattered by his previous calamities, it could not well be short of utter ruin to bring him face to face with the hard, relentless man who had been his evil destiny through life.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

They have relied almost entirely on the Sanctions of Utilitarian rules; that is, on the pleasures gained or pains avoided by the individual conforming to them.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

ROLF, the son of Urse, retrieved the shame of his birth by signal deeds of valour; and their exceeding lustre is honoured with bright laudation by the memory of all succeeding time.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

LOOKING BACKWARD July sweltered out with a last hot week, and Amory in another surge of unrest realized that it was just five months since he and Rosalind had met.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

It is true that some of us retained the conviction that the scamp had simply been making fun of us, and that the illness was neither here nor there.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

4. Social Organization Until recently there has been more interest manifested in elaborating theories of the stages in the evolution of society than in analyzing the structure of different types of societies.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In rebuilding the Exchange there were provided the Subscribers' or Underwriters' room, the Merchants' room, and the Captains' room.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

[The statement in the text that Sūrajmall, son of Uda, retired to Deolia is incorrect.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The balance here is on the side of unity rather than variety.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

It had, incidentally, that effect, which no one was churlish and ungrateful enough to grudge or lament, but was advocated in the interest of all men of letters, and of literature itself in its widest extent, and if it erred at all, only erred on the side of undue restriction to so short a period as forty-two years.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, January 1885 by Various

" Some one, unknown, repeated this to Mrs. McRory, and told her that it meant "You cannot touch pitch without being disgusted.
— from In Mr. Knox's Country by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

[Footnote: The guide-books make every twenty-fifth year a season of unusual rain, the last being 1879-80.]
— from To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The one of Menenius Agrippa, who, when the whole people of Rome had resolutely divided themselves from the senate, with apparent show of utter ruin, though he were, for that time, an excellent orator, came not among them upon trust, either of figurative speeches, or cunning insinuations, and much less with far-fetched maxims of philosophy, which, especially if they were Platonic, they must have learned geometry before they could have conceived; but, forsooth, he behaveth himself like a homely and familiar poet.
— from A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Philip Sidney

The voice, before hoarse and almost extinct, was now natural; the hollowness of the eye, the shrunken state of the features, the leaden hue of the face and body had disappeared; [p.81] the expression had become animated, the mind cheerful, the restlessness and uneasy feelings had vanished; the vertigo and noises of the ear, the sense of oppression at the precordia, had given way to comfortable feelings; the thirst, however urgent before the operation, was assuaged, and the secretion of urine restored, though by no means constantly so."
— from Asiatic Cholera: A treatise on its origin, pathology, treatment, and cure by Elijah Whitney

Some of us, remembering the things we have ourselves said and done, may doubt whether Satan can cast out Satan; but as the job is not exactly one for an unfallen angel, we may as well let him have a try.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915, With Index by Various

Some of us regret that this is so, but since macaroni in some form or other can always be had in Italy, and sausages in Germany, for the asking, no great inconvenience is caused.
— from Italian Highways and Byways from a Motor Car by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

As he spoke, Parsons mounted his pony, Robinson following the example; and in another moment the two were on their way once more, leaving Dick in a painful state of uncertainty regarding their purpose in purchasing the gun.
— from Dick in the Desert by James Otis

This was in the year 1540, the ship of Uloa reaching the Gulf of California in 1539.
— from The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone—Crockett—Carson by Emerson Hough