At the same time I offered no hindrance to her putting herself in danger.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

“It is true, my dear Notary,” said Thaddeus, in order not to betray his embarrassment, “it is true, without doubt; Bobtail is a finely built hound—if he is equally good at seizing the game.”
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

In studying the inflection of nouns and pronouns we have to consider gender , number , person , and case .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

On the other hand, in those savage communities where the necessities of life are scarce, there is obviously no possibility of accumulating them, and thus creating wealth.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Am I then doubtful of myself in this matter? Behold, in Thee, O Truth, I see that I ought not to be moved at my own praises, for my own sake, but for the good of my neighbour.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

In this evident disproportion between the trouble and the reward, the will to live appears to us from this point of view, if taken objectively, as a fool, or subjectively, as a delusion, seized by which everything living works with the utmost exertion of its strength for something that is of no value.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It was at once deeply impressed upon my mind, that, if Mr. Douglass could be persuaded to consecrate his time and talents to the promotion of the anti-slavery enterprise, a powerful impetus would be given to it, and a stunning blow at the same time inflicted on northern prejudice against a colored complexion.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

To get this equality of product, what a difference there must be in tillage: in Sicily, there is only need to scratch the ground; in England, how men must toil!
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We are all to listen to you; but as for what any of us may say, that is of no consequence whatever.
— from Edelweiss: A Story by Berthold Auerbach

For a considerable time I had confidently anticipated the fall of the Empire; not because the foreign sovereigns had vowed its destruction, but because I saw the impossibility of Napoleon defending himself against all Europe, and because I knew that, however desperate might be his fortune, nothing would induce him to consent to conditions which he considered disgraceful.
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 12 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

He was well named "Turk," and a "set to" or so with Byron, the domineering greyhound established his rights, so that it only needed a deep growl and an uprising of the bristles on his back, to recall to the overbearing aristocrat some wholesome lessons given him when the acquaintance began.
— from Tenting on the Plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas by Elizabeth Bacon Custer

Sometimes the insomnia of neurasthenia may be effectively overcome by tightly clasping the hands—interlocking the fingers as shown in Fig.
— from Zone Therapy; Or, Relieving Pain at Home by Edwin F. (Edwin Frederick) Bowers

On such portions of the walls as are within reach, visitors have sculptured their initials, or names at full length; and the white letters showing plainly on the gray surface, they have more obvious effect than such inscriptions generally have.
— from Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"In reality," said Master Flea, after he had taken his old post, upon the pillow, by Peregrine's ear,--"in reality I am not sure that I ought not to advise you to go at once to Swammerdamm's, however destructive it may appear to myself.
— from Specimens of German Romance; Vol. II. Master Flea by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

And when my time to die comes, I may say that I owe nothing to anybody, and that I have never got a thing for nothing.
— from Plays by August Strindberg, First Series by August Strindberg

But we must ask ourselves whether the natural Ego, to which the opponent of morality binds all human action, represents the whole of man's life, and whether all endeavour is obliged to serve the interests of natural self-preservation.
— from Ethics and Modern Thought: A Theory of Their Relations by Rudolf Eucken

This lasted for a time, during which Chris began to breathe more easily as he looked about him and questioned himself as to where he was, while little by little the facts came to fit themselves together like the pieces of a puzzle which now seemed very simple, so that it only needed a fresh act on the part of the mustang to make all clear.
— from The Peril Finders by George Manville Fenn